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Comment on Building a Private PPA on Ubuntu by Daniel

Daniel — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 22:31:15 +0000

Thanks for the instructions!

It looks like your link to rebuildd is out of date. The real one is:

http://julien.danjou.info/projects/rebuildd

Comment on Disabling “Subscribe to feed” in firefox by James

James — Thu, 27 Sep 2012 21:58:00 +0000

Just a quick comment, I found out an easy way to disable the “Subscribe to feed” feature in firefox. For me it was coming up automatically, with no option to see the feed xml. Found here: http://www.jackpotbingouk.com/viewtopic.php?id=158

FTA… Go to: Tools > Options > Applications – in ‘Applications’ there are 2 lists; “content type” and “action” scroll down the the list under “content type” and look for ‘Web Feed’.
On the opposite column under “actions” you will see ‘add live bookmarks in firefox’ click and select “preview in firefox” – Thats it click OK to close ‘options’.

In my case, running linux, I hit Edit > Preferences > Applications, then searched for “feed”, and changed the option for Web Feeds to Preview in Firefox.

Comment on Squid and Rails caching by johnf

johnf — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 22:58:01 +0000

Hi Martin,

That post is fairly old now and times have moved on a little. I would explore using nginx or varnish as a reverse proxy instead.

Comment on Squid and Rails caching by martin

martin — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:26:19 +0000

hi, nice post. I like the idea of using squid as a reverse proxy for thin or mongrel, but i never configured a squid and i can not find any information on how to use squid with rails. can you give me a hint where to start?

Comment on Building a Private PPA on Ubuntu by Alex

Alex — Fri, 20 May 2011 17:36:03 +0000

I use key with a passphrase and gpg-agent ,

so using script mentioned by comment #7 Frans van Berckel

I would need to input passphrase at some point , but using next constructions one can avoid passwordless gpg key and reuse gpg-agent with su

su -l -c “bash -i -c \”/usr/bin/reprepro -V -b ${basedir} includedeb ${d} ${i}\”" ftpmaster

with bash -i -c GPG_AGENT_INFO variable will be setup correctly from .bashrc

here is the part of .bashrc responsible for gpg-agent

pgrep -u $USER gpg-agent || gpg-agent –daemon –enable-ssh-support –write-env-file “${HOME}/.gpg-agent-info” –default-cache-ttl 600

if [ -f "${HOME}/.gpg-agent-info" ]; then
. “${HOME}/.gpg-agent-info”
export GPG_AGENT_INFO
export SSH_AUTH_SOCK
export SSH_AGENT_PID
fi
GPG_TTY=$(tty)
export GPG_TTY

Comment on Building a Private PPA on Ubuntu by Alex

Alex — Fri, 20 May 2011 16:12:04 +0000

Hi , thank you for the great manual .

but I run into one problem .

for example I have a source package which I have built on my system – i have .dsc file _source.changes , and so on .

now I upload with dupload or dput this _source.changes file and company to the repository server .

after I’ve uploaded stuff to incoming on the repository server I run
reprepro processincoming incoming

and my .dsc and other files are added to the repository

but when the build process spawned by Log : is finished , and rebuildd tries to put the new package to the repository the checksum on the new package is different and I get something like following :

File “pool/main/libp/libpam-abl/libpam-abl_0.4.1-1.dsc” is already registered with different checksums!
md5 expected: 79c0aaadf3f1deb26722d959db052cd5, got: b59bc17aa5cc072c8f2a091dbb745949
sha1 expected: 0e2c1c73ecc8625ae5a0459a7bf77bc51e745294, got: 1c22b4a0664a1c16ea0e28c62a9f3e660582177b
sha256 expected: 3edbfb50a5d228c717a8244ddcda58d067a76ed98c01f3afd5e89f8365c08274, got: 6aa915dd021165cead23bd1389b9af3797f3efd53cd6bba50f82b2d8b05768e8
size expected: 1848, got: 964
There have been errors!

So the here is more general problem – because there is only one pool , it is not possible to have the same package-version in different distributions like sid and lenny .

Anyway thank you a lot for sharing such a nice manual .

best regards ,
Alex

Comment on Building a Private PPA on Ubuntu by Frans van Berckel

Frans van Berckel — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 19:46:29 +0000

For getting my debs builds in again on a easy way, i did hack the upload_binaries script a bit.

#!/bin/bash

d=$1 p=$2 v=$3 a=$4

basedir=/srv/reprepro
resultdir=/var/cache/pbuilder/result

echo “upload_binaries” “${p}_${v}_${a}”

# Search now for packages builded by these sources
for i in ${resultdir}/*_${v}_*.deb; do
su -l -c “reprepro -V -b ${basedir} includedeb ${d} ${i}” frans
done

Comment on Linux Australia – President’s Report August 2010 by Michael

Michael — Wed, 06 Oct 2010 23:38:36 +0000

Looking forward to Auskey under Ubuntu. We run our Accounting practice using Ubuntu and have been using the old Digital Certificates for the last year without many problems under Ubuntu & firefox.

Comment on rm -rf /usr/lib by Lev Lafayette

Lev Lafayette — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 03:27:59 +0000

Good work; that’s a very cool and collected way of making use of the locatedb. I’ll be linking this to my own site under the appropriate page.

Comment on Building a Private PPA on Ubuntu by Bruce

Bruce — Wed, 19 May 2010 16:24:46 +0000

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