Lets start with something slightly different Tomorow there will be 3.4.4 release. It brings us less bundled stuff on gentoo side thanks to ebuild cleanup (noting noteworthy upstream on that matter). Fixed qt4 build on qt-4.7 (YAY see my previous blog) and fixed build with 4.8.0 Lots of internal fixes… Continue reading
This week at work I got quite frustrated for libreoffice crashing so often for me when I was using them in KDE. So I decided to do what any lazy slacker would, I went to Lubos Lunak and showed him nice and easy reproduce case. Thanks to that Lubos wrote… Continue reading
So after lots of complaining about libreoffice binary packages I decided to do something about it and wrote script that generates 6 flavors of it. With this I was able to generate the tarballs in quite timely manner in my stable amd64 virtual. -rw——- 1 root root 104M Oct 16… Continue reading
Few minutes ago I opened bugreport. If you feel bored or adventurous try the list from the bugreport and hit it on your stable machine. Everything should work, even better than 3.3 release. There are few known issues. One being broken pyuno bridge which I really dunno how to fix… Continue reading
This is microblog informing about the addition of app-misc/dsgui and net-libs/dslib to main tree. This package has use only for Czech people, as it is used for communicating with eGov.
This month I will be quite a lot offline, because I plan to spend my weekends crawling various caves -> no computer -> no big updates expect those I do when I get home from work. I bet you guys will live with it somehow :)
Lets sum up what happened in last 14 days after the 3.5 testing request.
I managed to make some great progress, as you probably noticed the grub2 series is in main tree. We still have few bugreports opened, but they are not really relevant to major usage. The stopper issue is the lack of documentation. If you now try to install grub2 it links… Continue reading
The planned release for libreoffice-3.5 is at February 3rd but we are preparing in gentoo right now. I am testing up system dependencies, removing crufty addons from the ebuild and updating upstream configure.in to fit more our needs. With all this I require some sort of assistance.
In this lovely post I shall try to describe the bumpy road that got us brand new libreoffice ebuild. Currently we are preparing on unleashing the libreoffice 3.4 series into the calm waters of the testing land.