Thursday, September 28. 2006
quality management: checking for new ... Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) quality management: checking for new upstream releasesI'm working on quality management those days. Today I checked 284 (a*-dillo) out of 2470 packages shipped with grml for new upstream releases and got 13 hits which I reported to Debian's BTS of course. I'll continue with this (awful boring) kind of work in the next days... Sunday, September 24. 2006
new grml-develrelease: 0.8-2 Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) new grml-develrelease: 0.8-2Hurray, we have a new develrelease! grml 0.8-2 is available for beta-testers and grml-developers. Quoting the main changelog: * Features brand new kernel 2.6.18-grml Notice: the fglrx and nvidia modules are available at http://dufo.tugraz.at/~prokop/grml-kernel/2.6.18-grml/ Notice2: not all modules are available yet; the missing ones are: reiser4 (not yet in kernel), acx100, adp94xx, bcm5700, dazuko, drbd8, lufs, nozomi, spca5xx, qc-usb, sl-modem, thinkpad, truecrypt * grml2hd checks whether you're installing to something like /dev/hdb3 and if /dev/[sh]da are harddisks, the lilo-dialog provides the possibility to install lilo into MBR of /dev/[sh]da instead of /dev/hdb3 or /dev/hdb. (Thanks for idea and code-base goes to Alexander Bernauer!) * Unicode support! http://blog.grml.org/archives/185-basic-unicode-support-for-grml.html What does this mean? You can use something like 'grml lang=at-utf8' to set environment variable for unicode. Just use "lang=$YOURLANGUAGE-utf8" to use this feature. The script grml-setlang allows to configure environment variables through /etc/default/locale. (Some more documentation will be available as soon as I upload the packages to the grml-repos.) * Split grml-etc into grml-etc-core: this provides the possibility to use grml-etc-core (which ships only some core config files for zsh, vim,...) on *plain* Debian (stable/testing/unstable) systems without interference. * Support truecrypt in our reboot/shutdown scripts (make sure no mapped volumes are left behind). * Check whether a swap partition is in use already and display info message during boot process (instead of an error message). * When running pump finished (which happens in background during bootup) it writes "finished_running_pump" into /etc/network/status/$DEVICE so you/we can check for it. * Bugfixes, improvements in rebuildfstab and other grml-packages... * Fixed the "Booting from external devices (SCSI/USB/Firewire) does not work" issue. Get it as long as it's fresh and hot! :-) Sunday, September 24. 2006
2.6.18-grml: grml-kerneladdons Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) 2.6.18-grml: grml-kerneladdonsI wrote a buildsystem for grml-kerneladdons which allows me to build the appropriate package for every single kernel version of grml much faster now. So you can grab grml-kerneladdons for the first release of 2.6.18-grml already. Notice that the package is named grml-kerneladdons-2.6.18. This provides the possibility to install several kernelpackages at the same time without any conflicts. The package includes tpm-emulator and ipw3945 as well now. Saturday, September 23. 2006
basic unicode support for grml Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) basic unicode support for grmlToday I completely rewrote the language stuff in grml-autoconfig. After designing a much more capabable and cleaner system I rewrote the code (e.g. removed the functions config_environment and config_keyboard which are integrated more smoothly in config_language now) and added support for Unicode/UTF-8. Now you just have to boot using 'grml lang=$LANG-utf8' and all the environment stuff is adjusted without any further manual input for you! Thanks to a new shellscript named grml-setlang it's also possible to adjust language related environment variables when booting your harddisk installation. grml-setlang also allows you to *interactive* configure your language stuff on grml. After running lots of tests I couldn't notice any problems so far - the new code should be completely backwards compatible. But I've to do some more regression testing and test X-related stuff before the new packages are going into the grml-repos (including some documentation). Expect to find the new features in the next grml develrelease (and of course in grml 0.9 afterwards ;-)). Friday, September 22. 2006
2.6.18-grml: first version available Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) 2.6.18-grml: first version availableA first version of 2.6.18-grml is available: grml@grml ~ % uname -aLinux grml 2.6.18-grml #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri Sep 22 20:37:07 CEST 2006 i686 GNU/Linux Notice: the current version does not include ipw3945 and reiser4 yet. Due to API changes several external modules don't build yet, I'm working on it. Please report any problems you notice and if you have feature requests for the grml-kernel feel free to contact me! Wednesday, September 20. 2006
fglrx-driver 8.29.6 for 2.6.17-grml ... Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) fglrx-driver 8.29.6 for 2.6.17-grml availableThe ATI fglrx-driver version 8.29.6 for 2.6.17-grml is available in the grml-repository. Just run 'apt-get update ; apt-get install fglrx-driver fglrx-kernel-2.6.17-grml' to update/install it. Saturday, September 16. 2006
new team-member: Ulrich Dangel Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) new team-member: Ulrich DangelWe have a new team-member: Ulrich 'schula' Dangel. Welcome in the team, Ulrich! Tuesday, September 12. 2006
new develrelease: grml 0.8-1 Posted by Michael Prokop
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Comments (0) Trackbacks (0) new develrelease: grml 0.8-1I just uploaded a new develrelease for beta-testers and grml-devs. All the mounting-stuff as discussed on the grml-user mailinglist has been implemented. Quoting the main part of the Changelog: * Fixed the issues of grml 0.8 mentioned on http://wiki.grml.org/doku.php?id=grml_0.8 (only the bt-net stuff does not work yet, Gebi is working on it) * /mnt/usb-sd* feature - see Thread "RFC: handling of external usb devices" on grml-user mailinglist for details => http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/466/focus=466 * grml-rebuildfstab (that's an shell command now as well, just run'grml-rebuildfstab' to rebuild /etc/fstab!) supports fs-LABELs and UUIDs; rebuilfstab now takes care of /mnt/*-directories as well - see http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/466/focus=507 http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.distributions.grml.user/508 and "man rebuildfstab" for details. Notice: Running "apt-get update ; apt-get install grml-autoconfig \ grml-rebuildfstab grml-scanpartitions udev" should bring you the /mnt/usb-sd* and new fstab features to your harddisk installation of grml. * Removed the bitmap-fonts packages xfonts-100dpi-transcoded and xfonts-75dpi-transcoded. I couldn't notice any font-related problems, if you do notice some please let me know! * Added FreeDOS 1.0 from the Balder project; boot into it using the bootoption 'dos' * Updated the adp94xx scsi kernel module [also in the initrd] (thanks, jimmy) * Extended grml-tips: several new tips regarding mdadm, lvm-stuff,... * Updated packages to debian-pool by 2006-09-11 * New packages (excluding lib*): aria2 ccontrol cdrskin classpath-gtkpeer ddccontrol ddccontrol-db firmware-qlogic iwatch medusa openbsd-inetd python-jaxml python-selinux python-semanage queuegraph reniced smap stealth unionfs-modules-2.6.17-grml wodim xen-utils-common xmms2 xmms2-client-cli xmms2-core xmms2-plugin-alsa xmms2-plugin-id3v2 xmms2-plugin-jack xmms2-plugin-mad xmms2-plugin-vorbis * Removed packages (excluding lib*): jaxml netkit-inetd ppmtofb python2.4-selinux scanerrlog xfonts-100dpi-transcoded xfonts-75dpi-transcoded Sunday, September 3. 2006grml @ german live-radioToday (2006-09-03) grml will be part of the german Ulmer CCC /dev/radio. Listen to the live-stream/podcast or grab the mp3/ogg from the archive afterwards! |
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