Patching with Quilt

December 27, 2008 · Posted in Linux · 8 Comments

Quilt is a great program to create patches. This post is a quick ‘n’ dirty tutorial on how to create a quick patch

Assuming you have Quilt installed ,

quilt new my.patch

will create a new empty patch named my.patch

Lets say that this patch is going to affect the main.cpp file. So ,

quilt edit main.cpp

Will open the main.cpp files using your predifined editor ( $EDITOR ), allowing you to make any changes you like. When you are done , exit the editor. Now, my.patch is a ready-to-apply patch for the main.cpp file.

If you want to apply it , you should refresh the patch by doing

quilt refresh

and

quilt push

to apply it. Now you have your new main.cpp file ready to use :)

The patch is stored under patches/ folder

If you want to revert the patch you can use

quilt pop

This quide was ment to give you the main idea about the quilt program

A great guide about quilt can be found here.

Happy patching

Tags: Linux, patch, quilt

kopete-4.2_beta2 is now using libmsn

December 23, 2008 · Posted in Gentoo · 2 Comments

Kopete-beta2 ( 4.1.85 ) on kde-crazy overlay is now using libmsn (beta 2). Many users were having problems in the past with MSN protocol ( transfers etc ) . Kopete is now using the new msn library for connecting to MSN servers.

Enjoy :)

Tags: Gentoo, kde-crazy, Overlays

Join the Gentoo Development team – Part I

December 20, 2008 · Posted in Gentoo · 8 Comments

Saturday evening… Haven’t written for a while…

There is not much to do (Gentoo wise). I am testing qt-* beta ebuilds in order to commit them on kde-crazy overlay. I was pretty busy for the last two weeksl. I completed the ebuild quiz and sent it to my mentor ( yngwin ) for review. I also got my personal bug number plus I got access on kde-crazy overlay . Suddenly I feel quite more resposible about anything that happens around Gentoo. I am testing the ebuilds again and again in order to make sure that everything is ok. Commiting ebuilds on a public overlay which is directly available to users is a huge thing. You need to make sure that your ebuilds won’t brake their systems and flood you with bugs.

Apart from this, hopefully , I will join Daniel on Gentoo kernel team, when my training period is done. I have so many things to learn though. But I need to thank all those people who encourage me doing my first steps on Gentoo development.

Thank you yngwin,tampakrap, pchrist, scarabeus, Tommy[D] ( I hope I don’t forget someone :) ).

Tags: development, Gentoo

Gentoo kernel bug hunting

December 4, 2008 · Posted in Gentoo · 2 Comments

After Daniels Drake call on November issue of Gentoo Monthly Newsletter I decided to join and help gentoo kernel team to hunt, catch, and kill several kernel bugs.

So far I like the whole development process. Daniel and the rest of the guys ( on #gentoo-kernel irc room ) are trying to show us the correct ways to deal with a possible kernel bug. There is no much coding to do ( hopefully ). We just try to understand why a bug is happening without dealing with source files ( until now ).

I think that this is a good way to understand the whole Linux kernel’s tree and become more familiar with it .

If someone would like to join us, join #gentoo-kernel irc room on freenode servers . Furthermore you can read this guide about the whole kernel maintenance process

Tags: bugs, Gentoo, kernel, Linux