we have some problem using the normal dns at the university so we finally decided to use opendns. it seems to be working fine so far :)

probably you already faced with the following problem: if you past a shellscript to vim, then it's indented, so the last line of the script will have tons of whitespaces at the start of the line. there are two problems here:

1. how to disable indenting temporarily? use :paste and :nopaste
2. how to indent the text after the paste? mark the lines you want to indent in visual mode (use V) then == will indent them :)

i've just discovered my name in diamanda wiki's install script :) (search for "Miklos")

officially called ooe680-m2, the first snapshot of the ooe680 tree which will become openoffice.org-2.1 has been uploaded. as usual you can find the buildscript in -current (enable the 'devel' option) and the binary x86_64 fpms here

darcs-deps is a small perl script that displays darcs patch dependencies graphically. i've created a test repo with the following changes:

1. a simple shell script with lines foo and bar
2. changed foo to foo2 (this should depend on #1)
3. changed bar to bar2 (same)
4. changed foo2 to foo3 (this should depend on #2 but not on #3)
5. added a new file to the end of the file (should depend on #4)

perl darcs-deps | dot -Tps -o deps.eps convert deps.eps deps.jpg

here is the result:

nice, isn't it? :)

i've just figured out how to append long comments to darcs patches from a script: $ echo "date +"%a %b %d %H:%M:%S %Z %Y" > VMiklos <vmiklos@frugalware.org> > name > long > comment" | dr rec -a --pipe

finally i got some time to upgrade our forums.frugalware.org to the latest 2.7.6 version. the upgrade went fairly simple, there is an upgrade script that managed the upgrade, then a db integrity check was needed (in fact that repaired/updated the db imho) and finally the small fonts in thm/default/tmpl/forum.css.tmpl has been increased a bit. hopefully everything still works :)

i'm currently testing firefox-2.0. here are a few issues:

• dpi is set to -1 by default
• the "default homepage" setting has changed
• the backspace button no longer works as it used to be

the first 2 will be fixed in the package, but the last one won't since this is the way the firefox developers decided. in case you want the old way (like me), you'll need the followings:

• open a new tab and type about:config
• search for browser.backspace_action
• set the value from 1 to 0

and now it'll work like before :)

so the python25 repo has been finally merged to -current

we have rebuilt ~155 packages, hopefully everything is fine now again :)

there are 2 kde packages to fix, they will be done by crazy soon

oh and there is a new test in the testsuite to avoid that big number of hardcoded python versions in the FrugalBuilds :)

i'm sorry to say, but it seems our free tools are not yet ready to build netbeans. first you need to add the gcj.jar to the classpath (patch here), but that's basically usual. then the compilation fails with the following casting error: [repeat] java.io.IOException: java.lang.ClassCastException: org.apache.xerces.dom.DocumentImpl cannot be cast to gnu.xml.dom.DomDocument (full log here)

that's something i can't fix.