ffmpeg devs recommend everyone to use cvs, not the "formal" releases. ok, let's do it, but then we have to the apps for the recent changes. for now, vlc has been fixed

this was yesterday, but probably still a news

so in the (not so good) old times we used some up2date.foo scripts to have a common $up2date variable for several FrugalBuilds. these are ugly and are broken in chroot. the "new" trend is to use Finclude for these scripts. yesterday the last up2date.thunderbird-i18n file was removed, so this big merge ended. so far we have already 20 scheme :)

probably the next will be to get rid of the old 'x' dependency in all packages (mostly done already)

i just wanted to search with google from C, and found that there is no out-of-the box sollution for this, so i've made one. available here

just finished another regression test for the testsuite: srcmissing, which searches for missing (not yet mirrored) source tarballs (and optionally downloads them). available here

in the last two days i was working on creating an initial testsuite for the source tree. what does works:

• cleaning outdated fpms
• cleaning outdated sources

this is the harder part imho what is planned:

• list missing fpms (maybe not needed? checkpkgs does the same)
• download all missing sources
• check for syntax errors
• check for required directives

i always was lame to the advanced usage of chanserv - and now again, i had to do something. the task was simple: set up autovoice'ing for a channel at freenode

so the two magic command:

/msg ChanServ LEVEL #chan SET autovoice 1

and then for each user:

/msg ChanServ ACCESS #chan ADD username 1

that's all ;)

just a 2 cheap trick with vim for other C monkeys:

:map  :set makeprg=make:w:make
:map  :set makeprg=make\ test:w:make

(probably these explain themselves)

the other nice feature: move to a funcion and press K: that will show the manpage of the function

hm. this was easier than i tought. so. it's fwcpan

$ fwcpan inline::cpp
Searching CPAN... done.
Guessing module: Inline::CPP
Targets: perl-inline-cpp-0.25-1
Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n]
Writing the FrugalBuild... done.
$ cat FrugalBuild
# Last Modified: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 03:04:56 +0100
# Compiling Time: 0.1 SBU
# Maintainer: Zsolt Szalai <xbit@frugalware.org>
pkgname=perl-inline-cpp
modname=Inline-CPP
modauthor=N/NE/NEILW
pkgver=0.25
pkgrel=1
pkgdesc="Write Perl subroutines and classes in C++."
depends=('perl')
groups=('devel-extra')
archs=('i686')
Finclude perl
sha1sums=('1dd7bdbe1a14f3c824841c72a69c54b07dbe9575')

i've pushed it to pacman-tools, it'll be included in the next release :)

openoffice dictionaries are back. a new openoffice-dict scheme was created, with current 4 dicts: de, fr, hu and es

there are new setup snapshots out. no big changes, just the static pacman from the setup has gone and the select plugin is now using libalpm calls instead of system(). they're available at the usual place: i686, x86_64