Yet another open source blog ;-) http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org Open Source - Open Knowledge Sun, 04 Mar 2012 20:02:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Join the proxy-maintainer project now! http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2012/03/04/join-the-proxy-maintainer-project-now/ http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2012/03/04/join-the-proxy-maintainer-project-now/#comments Sun, 04 Mar 2012 11:29:56 +0000 Markos http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/?p=1063 Yes, another post about proxy-maintainers[1][2][3]. We already maintain 76 packages (listed below))[4] but we have a lot of work to do as the total number of unmaintained packages is 688 [5]. If you spot a package, listed in the maintainer-needed list[5] that you use regularly, get in touch with us[6] and we will try to help you push your patches to Gentoo portage.

app-admin/conserver
app-admin/evtxtools
app-admin/stow
app-admin/webmin
app-admin/xstow
app-arch/createrepo
app-arch/rar
app-crypt/ssh-multiadd
app-editors/gummi
app-emulation/libguestfs
app-forensics/openscap
app-forensics/ovaldi
app-forensics/yasat
app-i18n/enca
app-laptop/configure-trackpoint
app-misc/hivex
app-portage/euscan
app-portage/pqlop
app-text/notecase-pro
app-text/rnv
dev-db/firebird
dev-db/sqldeveloper
dev-libs/jansson
dev-libs/libee
dev-libs/libestr
dev-libs/liblognorm
dev-libs/stlsoft
dev-libs/ucommon
dev-libs/uthash
dev-ml/xml-light
dev-perl/Data-Hexify
dev-perl/Digest-CRC
dev-perl/Sys-Virt
dev-python/assets
dev-python/hglib
dev-python/ipaddr
dev-python/netaddr
dev-python/pybloomfiltermmap
dev-python/pykerberos
dev-python/python-nss
dev-python/wehjit
dev-scheme/chicken
dev-tex/dvi2tty
dev-util/appinventor
dev-util/btyacc
dev-util/febootstrap
games-action/cs2d
games-misc/fortune-mod-gentoo-ru
media-gfx/converseen
media-gfx/dispcalgui
media-libs/ccaudio2
media-libs/ffmpegsource
media-sound/clementine
media-sound/flacon
media-sound/gmusicbrowser
media-sound/split2flac
media-video/aegisub
media-video/smplayer2
net-analyzer/w3af
net-dns/djbdns
net-im/vacuum
net-irc/kvirc
net-libs/librouteros
net-libs/neon
net-libs/serf
net-misc/cadaver
net-misc/logmein-hamachi
sys-apps/fakechroot
sys-apps/the_silver_searcher
sys-libs/ldb
www-apache/mod_xsendfile
www-apps/sugarcrm
www-apps/tt-rss
x11-misc/ktsuss
x11-themes/tactile
x11-themes/tactile3

 

[1]http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2011/08/24/gentoo-proxy-maintainers-project-is-now-live/

[2]http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2011/05/30/picking-up-the-pieces/

[3]http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2010/08/20/orphaned-packages/

[4] pquery –repo gentoo -n –herd proxy-maintainers

[5]http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners/maintainer-needed.xml

[6]http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/proxy-maintainers/index.xml

]]> http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2012/03/04/join-the-proxy-maintainer-project-now/feed/ 0 Meh, yes I am still here http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2012/02/17/meh-yes-i-am-still-here/ http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2012/02/17/meh-yes-i-am-still-here/#comments Fri, 17 Feb 2012 20:48:37 +0000 Markos http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/?p=1054 About six months ago I ranted about Gentoo and that I wanted to start migrating my boxes to another distro. However, I failed miserably. I only managed to migrate just one box to Arch Linux but the rest of my boxes are far far away so it is not possible to do this process remotely. Or maybe it is,  but it would require a massive amount of time and energy which I currently don’t have. Moreover, I was not able to get my motivation back so I am still around doing some routine tasks (retirements, trivial version bumps, treecleaning etc) as well as some recruitment work. This is actually quite good, cos I get to recruit new people to fill in my void :)

I would also like to apologize for the long standing bugs, but given the fact that most of the herds, who co-maintain my packages, are nearly empty, and I have no fast, reliable and, most importantly, available hardware to do my tests, I can’t do much :). However, I still have a few VirtualBox machines, running on the remote boxes, which help me stay in touch for the time being.

]]> http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2012/02/17/meh-yes-i-am-still-here/feed/ 1 Heads up: How to set your default graphics engine in Qt-4.8.0 http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2012/01/29/heads-up-how-to-set-your-default-graphics-engine-in-qt-4-8-0/ http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2012/01/29/heads-up-how-to-set-your-default-graphics-engine-in-qt-4-8-0/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 19:46:40 +0000 Markos http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/?p=1048 Since one hour ago, Qt-4.8.0 is in Gentoo portage tree. New major release so lots of new (or broken) stuff. The most important feature in this release is the integration of a new eselect module. This module will allow you to set your default graphics engine without the need to recompile Qt (x11-libs/qt-gui to be precise) from scratch. So, provided you have qt-gui-4.8.0 installed, you should be able to use the eselect module as follows:

hwoarang@mystical ~$ eselect qtgraphicssystem list
Available Qt Graphics Systems:
 [1] native
 [2] opengl
 [3] raster *

(note: if you have x11-libs/qt-openvg installed, one more option should be available)

Simply select your graphics system of preference, and then logout and login again.

hwoarang@mystical ~$ eselect qtgraphicssystem set 2
Setting opengl as your active Qt Graphics System... done
Please logout for changes to take effect.

Thanks to Alex(wired) for the eselect module implementation.
Enjoy ;-)

 

 

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[1]: https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=364485

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Lightdm artwork for Gentoo Linux

However, if you consider yourself an artist, you can send me your own lightdm-{gtk,qt}-greeter.conf + background image along with a screenshot and if you are lucky enough, I will use your own configuration on future lightdm releases ;-)

]]> http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2011/09/18/lightdm-on-gentoo-artwork-needed/feed/ 9 Gentoo Proxy Maintainers project is now live! http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2011/08/24/gentoo-proxy-maintainers-project-is-now-live/ http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2011/08/24/gentoo-proxy-maintainers-project-is-now-live/#comments Wed, 24 Aug 2011 14:17:31 +0000 Markos http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/?p=979 As I promised, one of my goals this year is to create a more efficient ebuild maintenance channel between users and developers. The outcome is a new project called “Proxy maintainers“[1]. This is basically an e-mail alias including all developers who want to act as proxy maintainers. If you are a user, grab your favorite orphaned package[2] and contact us to review it and commit it on your behalf. This project has the potential to expand even further, e.g. have a single overlay were we can work together on maintainer-needed@ ebuilds before we push them on portage tree. This is a fresh shiny project so ideas are more than welcomed ;). If you haven’t heard before about ‘proxy-maintainers’ have a look on my previous blog posts[3]

[1]http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/proxy-maintainers/index.xml

[2]http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/qa/treecleaners/maintainer-needed.xml

[3]http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/tag/proxy-maintainer/

]]> http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2011/08/24/gentoo-proxy-maintainers-project-is-now-live/feed/ 5 Where is Qt-4.8? http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2011/08/13/where-is-qt-4-8/ http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/2011/08/13/where-is-qt-4-8/#comments Sat, 13 Aug 2011 17:32:13 +0000 Markos http://hwoarang.silverarrow.org/?p=974 It’s been more than a year since I wrote something about Qt. This is mainly because I retired myself from the team and focused on other teams that needed urgent attention. However, lately I had some spare time to contribute to Qt again and update 4.9999 ebuilds to a working state. Furthermore, I pushed some initial ebuilds for Qt-4.8.0_beta1 and Qt-4.8.9999. Both sets are merged successfully on my testing boxes so they should by ready for you to test them. Qt-creator-2.3.0_rc is located in qting-edge overlay as well, but because it requires >=Qt-4.7.4 it makes no sense to commit it to portage. So if you want to use it, then you have to use >=Qt-4.7.9999 ebuilds :)

If you have any problems, please use forums[1] to report them or open a bug on https://bugs.gentoo.org.

[1]http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-730187.html

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