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Ubuntu Jaunty upgrade to Karmic
Yesterday evening I planned the upgrade of a server I share with a few friends. This server already hosts some bigger sites like Mechelenblogt and Hackerspace.be.
The server ran Ubuntu Jaunty but we needed to upgrade to Karmic because of new features in Apache we wanted.
Suprisingly Ubuntu has a better day to upgrade than the debian apt-get dist-upgrade + change your /etc/apt/sources.list to reflect the new repositories.
You simply need to type do-release-upgrade followed by enter and an interactive upgrade process will do all the work for you.
There were no issues at all with the upgrade. With all the reading and double checking what it did the upgrade took only 50 minutes. Ubuntu++, Linux++, opensource++ is my conclusion.
MacPorts hacking + ubuntu-be
This weekend I finally found some time to hack on MacPorts. The thing I needed/wanted was support for binary downloads. The standard way MacPorts works is by compiling every package, once this package is compiled it can be archived on the hard drive to be used later. Binary downloads are not yet possible with the current version.
With my lack of Tcl knownledge it wasn't easy to hack that code to add this new feature. But after some hours trying to understand the way Tcl works and the basic structure of the code I needed to modify I finally got what I wanted: automagical download of the binary file from a server. With my hack MacPorts will first look for the binary on the local disc, then download the file, and if that file isn't available on the chosen binhost, compile the thing.
Unfortunately I couln't yet understand how to import variables from the ports.conf file. And thus the binhost is hardcoded in the current patch. Once I find a way to fix this, I will send the patches to the MacPorts devteam and hope they will add it in the official code. During this time I will continue to compile as much ports as possible to offer an binhost for MacTel (intel mac) users. (currently the size of my binhost is 700 MB).
That was my work for saturday... on sunday we had a ubuntu-be activity. With some fellow ubuntu-promotors we went to a computerfair. But for more information about that I just send you to the site of Lisje.
With my lack of Tcl knownledge it wasn't easy to hack that code to add this new feature. But after some hours trying to understand the way Tcl works and the basic structure of the code I needed to modify I finally got what I wanted: automagical download of the binary file from a server. With my hack MacPorts will first look for the binary on the local disc, then download the file, and if that file isn't available on the chosen binhost, compile the thing.
Unfortunately I couln't yet understand how to import variables from the ports.conf file. And thus the binhost is hardcoded in the current patch. Once I find a way to fix this, I will send the patches to the MacPorts devteam and hope they will add it in the official code. During this time I will continue to compile as much ports as possible to offer an binhost for MacTel (intel mac) users. (currently the size of my binhost is 700 MB).
That was my work for saturday... on sunday we had a ubuntu-be activity. With some fellow ubuntu-promotors we went to a computerfair. But for more information about that I just send you to the site of Lisje.
Ubuntu Linux 6.06 "Dapper"
Om Mark (en de Linux beweging) even te steunen... quote his mail:
*** GRAAG DIT BERICHT DOORSTUREN AAN KENNISSEN MET MOGELIJK INTERESSE*** Beste, Ben je enthousiast vrije software-gebruiker? Dan ben jij degene die we zoeken! Op 1 juni wordt namelijk Ubuntu Linux 6.06 "Dapper" gelanceerd. We willen zoveel mogelijk pers- en publieksbelangstelling kweken. Daarom bouwen we tegen 1 juni een netwerk van Ubuntu-steunpunten. DOEL: Mensen laten voelen dat vrije software leeft in hun buurt of streek. Iedereen de mogelijkheid bieden in zijn streek een installatieset op te halen, misschien zelfs een korte demonstratie of hulp bij een eerste installatie te krijgen. DOE JE MEE? http://vrijesoftware.be/steunpunten/formulier.html (zelf steunpunt worden) http://vrijesoftware.be/steunpunten (kaart van huidige steunpunten) WAT VERWACHT JE DAN VAN MIJ? Gedurende enkele maanden (je kiest zelf hoe lang):NOG VRAGEN? FOUTEN MELDEN? Wiens initiatief is dit? Hoe zit het met privacy? Deze en andere vragen vind je beantwoord op http://vrijesoftware.be/steunpunten/faq.html. Is dat niet zo, spreek me dan aan met je vraag: mvdbo...@gmail.com. Alvast bedankt! Mark Van den Borre enthousiast vrije software-gebruiker deelnemer ubuntu-be
- deel je Ubuntu-installatiesets uit aan mensen uit je buurt die je daarom vragen.
- geef je - ALS je dat wenst- een demonstratie Ubuntu Linux aan mensen uit je buurt die daarom vragen.
- help je - ALS je dat wenst- bij het voor het eerst installeren van Ubuntu Linux. Je hoeft dus geen speciale kennis rond vrije software of Ubuntu te bezitten, al kan dat natuurlijk wel helpen.




