Comments for John's Tidbits http://inodes.org Moo - Development, Trouble-shooting and Random thoughts... Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:14:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 Comment on Careful what you call your server! by johnf http://inodes.org/2010/03/01/careful-what-you-call-your-server/comment-page-1/#comment-2734 johnf Mon, 01 Mar 2010 02:14:49 +0000 http://inodes.org/?p=236#comment-2734 @Robert Collins I disagree. My choice of a perfectly valid machine name shouldn't break my system because udev chooses to just litter the /dev/ namespace when perfectly good device names already exist in /dev/mapper. @Robert Collins
I disagree. My choice of a perfectly valid machine name shouldn’t break my system because udev chooses to just litter the /dev/ namespace when perfectly good device names already exist in /dev/mapper.

]]> Comment on Careful what you call your server! by Robert Collins http://inodes.org/2010/03/01/careful-what-you-call-your-server/comment-page-1/#comment-2733 Robert Collins Mon, 01 Mar 2010 01:14:59 +0000 http://inodes.org/?p=236#comment-2733 Doctor it hurts when I put my finger in my eye. Doctor it hurts when I put my finger in my eye.

]]> Comment on TCP Window Scaling and kernel 2.6.17+ by blingo http://inodes.org/2006/09/06/tcp-window-scaling-and-kernel-2617/comment-page-1/#comment-2688 blingo Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:16:53 +0000 http://inodes.org/blog/2006/09/06/tcp-window-scaling-and-kernel-2617/#comment-2688 Thanks a lot, until reading this I was using old kernels to resolve this.. Thanks a lot, until reading this I was using old kernels to resolve this..

]]> Comment on rm -rf /usr/lib by Jérôme Maeder http://inodes.org/2009/09/15/rm-rf-usrlib/comment-page-1/#comment-2685 Jérôme Maeder Sun, 27 Sep 2009 11:25:56 +0000 http://inodes.org/blog/?p=198#comment-2685 A wise solution would be to ban from the shell history the rm command. Under bash, you can use the HISTIGNORE variable, with something like that to ignore several commands: HISTIGNORE="exit:reboot:poweroff:rm" A wise solution would be to ban from the shell history the rm command.

Under bash, you can use the HISTIGNORE variable, with something like that to ignore several commands:
HISTIGNORE=”exit:reboot:poweroff:rm”

]]> Comment on Building a Private PPA on Ubuntu by Krazy_Yvan http://inodes.org/2009/09/14/building-a-private-ppa-on-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-2682 Krazy_Yvan Mon, 21 Sep 2009 07:13:07 +0000 http://inodes.org/blog/?p=189#comment-2682 Thanks a lot for the howto! I was looking forward to building hardened packages with hardening-wrapper on a local mirror... Thanks a lot for the howto! I was looking forward to building hardened packages with hardening-wrapper on a local mirror…

]]> Comment on rm -rf /usr/lib by J http://inodes.org/2009/09/15/rm-rf-usrlib/comment-page-1/#comment-2681 J Sun, 20 Sep 2009 10:34:01 +0000 http://inodes.org/blog/?p=198#comment-2681 Nice trick! Nice trick!

]]> Comment on Building a Private PPA on Ubuntu by Jack Dausman http://inodes.org/2009/09/14/building-a-private-ppa-on-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-2679 Jack Dausman Sat, 19 Sep 2009 16:57:53 +0000 http://inodes.org/blog/?p=189#comment-2679 wow. This is extraordinarily useful. wow. This is extraordinarily useful.

]]> Comment on Building a Private PPA on Ubuntu by Jeremy http://inodes.org/2009/09/14/building-a-private-ppa-on-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-2676 Jeremy Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:55:25 +0000 http://inodes.org/blog/?p=189#comment-2676 Awesome! :) Awesome! :)

]]> Comment on Building a Private PPA on Ubuntu by johnf http://inodes.org/2009/09/14/building-a-private-ppa-on-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-2675 johnf Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:38:50 +0000 http://inodes.org/blog/?p=189#comment-2675 That's one thing I forgot to mention. You can get it to satisfy everything from the PPA. Basically you need to add the PPA to your sources.list so that it is used to grab dependencies from. You also need a pre-depend hook to perform an aptitude update. Edit /etc/pbuilder/pbuilderrc <pre> HOOKDIR="/etc/pbuilder/hooks" </pre> then <pre lang='bash"> mkdir /etc/pbuilder/hooks echo -e "#!/bin/sh\n/usr/bin/aptitude update\n" > /etc/pbuilder/hooks/D70aptitude_update </pre> That’s one thing I forgot to mention. You can get it to satisfy everything from the PPA.

Basically you need to add the PPA to your sources.list so that it is used to grab dependencies from. You also need a pre-depend hook to perform an aptitude update.

Edit /etc/pbuilder/pbuilderrc

 HOOKDIR="/etc/pbuilder/hooks"

then

mkdir /etc/pbuilder/hooks
echo -e "#!/bin/sh\n/usr/bin/aptitude update\n" > /etc/pbuilder/hooks/D70aptitude_update
]]> Comment on Building a Private PPA on Ubuntu by Jeremy http://inodes.org/2009/09/14/building-a-private-ppa-on-ubuntu/comment-page-1/#comment-2674 Jeremy Tue, 15 Sep 2009 05:16:21 +0000 http://inodes.org/blog/?p=189#comment-2674 I <em>really</em> like the look of this — really high quality stuff. When you upload stuff to the 'PPA', are packages built with the existing PPA packages as a dependency? That's always the most painful thing when building packages with pbuilder. (e.g. to build Samba 3.2 for Hardy, I needed non-packaged things such as libtasn1-3-dev present, so I had to build my debs with 'pbuilder login', not 'pbuilder build', which was darn painful) I really like the look of this — really high quality stuff.

When you upload stuff to the ‘PPA’, are packages built with the existing PPA packages as a dependency?

That’s always the most painful thing when building packages with pbuilder. (e.g. to build Samba 3.2 for Hardy, I needed non-packaged things such as libtasn1-3-dev present, so I had to build my debs with ‘pbuilder login’, not ‘pbuilder build’, which was darn painful)

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