As you probably know I am using Gentoo hardened on stable flavor. Lately it led me to kind of thinking that in the main tree we have lots and lots of packages in testing only and people spam their /etc/portage/package.keywords* with various packages they need for their stable life. I… Continue reading
First of all let me just say huge thanks for everyone who donated. Here is list of people which I am aware of their identity: David Abbott Chris Fox Olaf Freyer Barrie Backhurst N Wright UPDATE One more person contributed after I wrote the post: Patrick Nagel Together you guys… Continue reading
Sitrep I’ve been quiet lately due to the stream of changes around me. So shortly I am no longer only user of my desktop nor the major user of it. Thanks to that and issues that Gentoo showed while used by others I simply was unable to afford doing 24/7… Continue reading
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.