Author Archives: aross

FBI fights zombie hordes

Posted on June 15, 2007 by aross

Although the article itself is a little lightweight, the headline is to die for, especially when viewed in a title-only RSS feed (such as the “Latest Headlines” live bookmark shipped by default with Firefox):

Posted in Gentoo | 42 Comments

Amazing arch teams!

Posted on April 25, 2007 by aross

Bug #175814 (dev-util/mercurial-0.9.3-r1 stable request) is my first stabilization bug and, although it’s a simple one, I’m still blown away by the rapid response from not one but five archs! Many thanks to all involved, and may all our stabilizations … Continue reading →

Posted in Gentoo | 16 Comments

0-day bump requests

Posted on October 23, 2006 by aross

Ioannis is right about the futility of filing 0-day bump requests. Just a few hours after Xen 3.0.3 was announced on the xen-devel mailing list, a version bump request was filed as bug #151764. As maintainers of a package, we’re … Continue reading →

Posted in Gentoo | 48 Comments

Danger, Will Robinson! Hardened and xen-tools-3.0.2-r4

Posted on October 20, 2006 by aross

The motive for my previous post is about to be revealed – I’ve just committed app-emulation/xen-tools-3.0.2-r4, as ~x86/~amd64, and hardened users should heed the ebuild’s warning: xend may not work when python is built with stack smashing protection (ssp). If … Continue reading →

Posted in Gentoo, Xen | 24 Comments

elog – endless possibilities and no excuses.

Posted on October 7, 2006 by aross

I don’t believe in holding the hands of users running ~arch – even if they only have a few ~arch ebuilds on an otherwise stable system. While ALL Gentoo users should be reading the messages delivered via ewarn, for ~arch … Continue reading →

Posted in Gentoo | 203 Comments