I've written a short howto about how to debug a pacman database error as I was asked many time to do so for others. So there it is, now i can say simply RTFM ;)

probably this is known, but i've just figured out how to get rid of grep when i use

foo |grep ... |sed ...

the magic command is

foo |sed -n '/^match/s/foo/bar/p'

if we're at it, you can even get rid of sed if you use bash and just want to do simple replaces like 1.0 -> 1_0:

$ pkgver=1.0
$ echo ${pkgver//./_}
1_0_0

two intereting tricks remained. the first is about deleting from a pattern to an another one (including both line)

$ echo -e 'a\nb\nc\nd\ne'
a
b
c
d
e
$ echo -e 'a\nb\nc\nd\ne' |sed /b/,/d/d
a
e

the last one is about deleting to the end of the file from a pattern:

$ echo -e 'a\nb\nc\nd\ne' |sed '/c/,$d'
a
b

ok, that's all for today :)

(other nice tricks here)

NewsForge published a review about Frugalware 0.4. Thx boobaa for pointing it out.

basically now the 64bit openoffice has all the features as the 32bit one, even the splashscreen is back, you can reach a screenshot by desco here

the National Taiwan University just donated us a new mirror, called ftp9. enjoy! :)

upstream at Novell is very fast, they've already fixed the problem mentioned yesterday. so one should be really able to build OOo on x86_64 with the usual simple sudo makepkg -R :)

desco's shot: http://www.bluelion.hu/stuff/ooo-x86_64.png

download: http://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/other/people/vmiklos/frugalware-x86_64/

source: http://ftp.frugalware.org/pub/other/people/vmiklos/source/openoffice.org-devel/

also there is a little problem with make install in the FB, more details here

note: yes, you have to install the langpacks with pacman -d, this will be fixed later

no, don't except anything, just started to work on it. a few infos:

• you need m162 to apply the ooo-build patches, but in that milestone the "fpicker module dependency" is missing, but it is already fixed in upstream. so let's start to make a patch
• you need to download the cvs: cvs -d:pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.services.openoffice.org:/cvs co -r SRC680_m162 OpenOffice
• then find the last change to the critical file: cvs diff -r 1.6 -u automation/prj/build.lst
• using this patch, the build is still running atm :)

OSDir made a screenshot tour using 0.4rc1.

Slack Addict published an interview before releasing 0.4.

Finally Wikinews published a short interview right after 0.4 had been released.

That's all :)

lgee proposed to hold a small "real life" announcement party for developers after 0.4 is released. so yesterday, one day after the release, five of the Hungarian devs met each other :)

janny made some shots, you can look at them here.

who is who: ironiq (on the right side), janny (on the left side), vmiklos, voroskoi and lgee.