till now the download code was in pacman's code which was meant that every frontend had to have its own downlaad code - causing a big code duplication. today i've pushed 15 patches to the pacman darcs repo which moved this functionality finally to the library :)

the patches:

1. new event: PM_TRANS_EVT_RETRIEVE_LOCAL
2. pm_dlfnm can be a simple char *
3. pre-register databases to avoid code duplication
4. pacman: use the libalpm downloader code, drop our own
5. util: link to libftp, too
6. _alpm_sync_commit(): download the packages, too
7. alpm_db_getinfo(): strip the newlines from the end of lines
8. alpm_db_getinfo(): added a PM_DB_FIRSTSERVER property
9. alpm_db_update() now handles downloading, too
10. libalpm: moved in _alpm_db_setlastupdate() and _alpm_db_getlastupdate()
11. _alpm_fetch_pkgurl(): added the usual _alpm prefix
12. _alpm_handle_set_option() more error handling for proxyhost and xfercommand
13. handle_free() memleak fixes
14. libalpm: new function: alpm_fetch_pkgurl()
15. libalpm: moved in the download code

i was hired to create a vpn between 2 frugal machines, alwas i was asked to share the results. so here they came.

NOTE: i'm not a vpn genious, nor want to write yet another "the best" howto. just the brief story of the vpn setup under Frugalware

you can reach it here, feel free to improve it :)

#!/bin/bash
foo()
{
        true
}
if declare -f foo >/dev/null; then
        echo "foo() declared"
else
        echo "foo() is not declared"
fi

that's all from the user's point of view, internally the whole package-to-sqldb script is redesigned and the sql db itself, too.

examples: reverse deps, browse by group

the new db updater here

today's project is fwmirror, a handy tool to mirror Frugalware archives. basically it handles the followings:

• it needs a server, if you want the newest stuff and don't care about being slow, then you need "rsync://rsync.frugalware.org/pub/frugalware/"
• it handles different Frugalware versions (NOTE: since -current has a new structure, versions other than -current will be supported by fwmirror only after 0.5)
• it handles different architectures, including the special "source" one
• it allows you to pass any custom options to rsync

ok, not a big deal, but useful, isn't it? :)

the xml that is sent to cia now contains darcsweb urls for the patches, the messages sent to frugalware-darcs, too :)

1) managed to prevent mutt from asking for confirmation before passing a mail to bogofilter + now it deletes the message automatically

macro index S "unset wait_key\n\ bogofilter -Ns;date +%y%m%d >>~/public_html/stats/spam_s\n\ set wait_key\n\ "

2) improved the generated graph: now there are two ones: filtered and unfiltered

3) added an avarage number to both graph

darcs repo still available here

yesterday i've splitted mysql to mysql and libmysqlclient. hopefully this will mean that several apps that depended till now on the whole (30mb-sized) mysql, now can only depend on libmysqlclient (2mb-sized or so) :)

...has been uploaded to you-know-where

this time the build was even quicker, "only" 582 mins :)

i've recently added 2 small flags to the newest (m176) OpenOffice.org development snapshot FrugalBuild resulting significant building speedup. in numbers, the build time with 4 languages is 591 mins currently, while before it was 680 minutes (13 percent difference). basically the 2 tricks:

• --disable-qadevooo: don't build automated testing tools, we don't need them and the build takes a hell of time
• --enable-gcjaot: the java tools used during the build are now native binaries (compiled using gcj)