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new mkiso

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the current (old) mkiso script worked, but had several limitations:

  • you had to have write access to the repo
  • no dependency checking, you needed to arrange the categories by hand
  • no support for more than one dvd

yes, this all has been gone, there is a new mkiso in the pacman-tools repo (and soon in the next pacman-tools release) which supports all these missing features, basically you need to specify the volume size and the wished volumes in an xml, then mkiso will do everything for you. also it comes with a nice manpage examples :)


xconfig in frugalwareutils

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a complete rewrite of the old xconfig script in the frugalware pkg is now included in frugalwareutils. since the code is native, it's much more faster. it should work at least as well as the old script, but who knows - if you find any bug then please report it to us

thanks!


rss support in mxw

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mxw is a simple C irc bot. i've start it as a fun project (usually people write irc bots in perl or python), but currently it handles more and more functions. today i've added rss support (using libmrss) so that on the #frugalware channel mxw_ floods the users with package updates and blog posts ;-)

of course the whole code is still experimental, i hope this post will appear on #frugalware, too :)


distrowatch interview

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distrowatch published an interview with me, maybe it's interesting :)

pre-0.5pre1 party

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yesterday LGee, desco, voroskoi and me met each other. you can reach a few pictures taken by LGee here

openoffice-m169-x86_64 ready

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hi

the newest development snapshots's fpms are ready, you can reach at you-know-where. no big changes, 4 new languages, more patches submitted to upstream (we now only use only a gcc-4.1.0 specific one) and so on


muttng && gpg

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(maybe this is true for mutt(-devel) too, i'm not sure)

so. first you need a private key, there is a good howto about it here. then you need to copy gpg.rc (for example from /usr/share/doc/mutt-ng-20060402/samples/gpg.rc) to ~/.muttng, then add the following lines to your muttngrc

source ~/.muttng/gpg.rc
unset crypt_autosign
unset crypt_autoencrypt
set crypt_replysign
set crypt_replyencrypt
set crypt_verify_sig=yes
set pgp_sign_as="0xXXXXXXXX"
where XXXXXXXX is your keyid

for autmatic key downloading on checking signatures, add

keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve
to your ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf

that's all :)


yet another 0.4 review

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here. also the title is not exactly correct as probably a release candidate was tested :)

bogofilter && mutt

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i've just set up bogofilter with mutt, it was sooo easy! :)

first you should collect some spam and ham (non-spam) to separate (Maildir) folders

then bogofilter -s -B ~/Maildir/spam/, bogofilter -n -B ~/Maildir/ham. the basic learning is done

to your procmailrc: :0fw | /usr/bin/bogofilter -uep :0: * ^X-Bogosity: Spam .Spam/

finally i've added a macro to my muttrc to be able to simply tell bogofilter it missed something (haven't noticed a spam): macro index S "bogofilter -Ns" (you can add a similar macro for "bogofilter -Sn" - "hey, this is not a spam" - if you want)

that's all :)


java enabled openoffice.org

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after a few days of work (and headache) we (me and janny) put togother a java-enabled version of the openoffice.org package. we built the development milestone (m163) of OOo, so it won't hit -current till 2.0.3 is released. ideally this should re-enable features like help and others which were missing since 2.0.0. at the moment the x86_64 packages are available, but janny will upload i686 ones soon, too

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