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Gentoo News: Imagination Technologies donates MIPS64 build systems 25 Aug 2013 | 05:02 pm
Imagination Technologies has donated two MIPS64-based Ubiquiti ERLite-3 routers, plus resources to aid Gentoo in providing up-to-date root file system builds for MIPS. Imagination Technologies is a g...
Sven Vermeulen: Why our policies don’t like emerge –config 23 Aug 2013 | 02:53 pm
One of the features that Portage provides is to have post-processing done on request of the administrator for certain packages. For instance, for the dev-db/postgresql-server package we can call its p...
Alexys Jacob: mongoDB v2.4.6 & pymongo v2.6 21 Aug 2013 | 05:44 pm
mongodb-2.4.6 The folks at 10gen discovered a severe bug in the mongoDB chunk migration process on sharded environments. Basically, depending of the size of your documents, there was a chance that s...
LinuxCrazy Podcasts: Gnome 3.8 | Systemd + The new Gentoo Trustees ++ 18 Aug 2013 | 05:33 am
Gnome 3.8 | Systemd Links Gnome3 https://wiki.gnome.org/GnomeShell/CheatSheet https://extensions.gnome.org/#sort=popularity Systemd http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Systemd https://wiki.archlinux.org/ind...
Alexys Jacob: rabbitMQ : v3.1.5 released 16 Aug 2013 | 07:06 pm
Looks like rabbitMQ upstream likes to bump their stuff right after I catch-up with my bumps You are strongly advised to upgrade to this version since it fixes a quite important bug introduced by 3.1.4...
Sven Vermeulen: Using CUSTOM_BUILDOPT in refpolicy for USE flag-alike functionality? 16 Aug 2013 | 12:17 pm
As you are probably aware, Gentoo uses the reference policy as its base for SELinux policies. Yes, we do customize it and not everything is already pushed upstream (for instance, our approach to use x...
Alexys Jacob: rabbitMQ : v3.1.4 released 13 Aug 2013 | 05:28 pm
Quick post for a quick bugfix release of the rabbitMQ server. Please note that I dropped the remaining 3.0.4 version in tree while doing this bump. highlights security fix : ensure DLX declaration c...
Raúl Porcel: Gentoo/m68k in the ARAnyM emulator 7 Aug 2013 | 08:23 pm
Hi all, During the last 6 months I may have disappeared a bit, but to be honest apart from real life stuff, I’ve been doing something that isn’t visible. I’ve been working in some S390 documentation...
Patrick Lauer: How to drive people crazy with syslog 7 Aug 2013 | 12:45 pm
Here's a little proof of concept I hacked up to frustrate random people that might be studying the system logs. It assumes atd is running. This file should be saved as /usr/libexec/gcc (or something...
Greg KH: Longterm kernel 3.10 4 Aug 2013 | 04:51 pm
As I’ve discussed in the past, I will be selecting one “longterm stable” kernel release every year, and maintain that kernel release for at least two years. Despite the fact that the 3.10-stable kern...
