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debtree 0.7.3 - Oh what tangled webs we weave
It's been quite some time (almost two years) since my previous "release" of debtree, but now version 0.7.3 is available. And it still generates very nice graphs The changes are relatively minor: a few...
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debtree-next - More steroids
Funny how working on a program immediately inspires to do more. Remember that the initial motivation for debtree was to find out why a package was installed? It can now show that in the dependency...
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I've just uploaded version 2.2 of debmirror, which introduces yet another new feature: mirroring the i18n/Translation files that contain translations of package descriptions. Many thanks to Joerg...
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debtree 0.8.0, including the new option to display reverse dependencies, is now officially (or rather: unofficially) available. The new feature is of course documented in the man page, but also on the...
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Yay! I've done it: 1160 lines of bash script are now 1215 lines of perl, and: 'debtree aptitude': 1m2.832s -> 0m0.596s The new release is available as version 0.9.9 from the debtree web site and has...
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debmirror 2.3 should be hitting the mirrors about now. Main change is that it will now use the available diffs to update Contents files, which should give a nice bandwidth reduction for users who...
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The Debian FTP-masters recently changed the way gzipped meta files are compressed in order to make them more efficient to update using the rsync option. This was done by adding the --rsyncable option...
View ArticleFun with VMware
Until two years or so ago I used VMware Workstation intensively for development and testing of Debian Installer, using one of the licenses generously made available to the D-I team by VMware. It was...
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Debianizing an ARM-based netbook
I got this neat little Chinese netbook after a mail to the debian-arm list where one machine was offered in exchange for porting Debian to it. So I offered to get Debian Installer running on it. In...
View ArticleStranger than fiction
If you haven't seen it, try to. Amazing this movie did not get any major awards. Maggie Gyllenhaal is well worth looking out for in other movies.
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