Mandriva
urpmi tricks
Some lesser-known urpmi tricks I’ve had to figure out today. The situation is that the machine that had my mirrored files has been moved somewhere else in order to ease up on rsync being an absolute bandwidth pig (great for downloading, bad when it’s throwing nagios checks into fits). Anyways, I’ve setup both a private [...]
Mandriva community support
The Mandriva community is small, yes, but tight-knit. This can be evidenced by the comments in my previous blog entry and the many emails I received privately, and the many chats initiated on IRC. It has been my honor and privilege to work with you guys, and I sincerely appreciate all the extremely kind sentiments [...]
Bon Voyage, Mandriva!
Well, I received some horrid news today. As of December 31st, my contract with Mandriva will be terminated and I will no longer be working for Mandriva. We’ve got a new CEO now, and he’s determined there is to be no remote contractors, and as a result I’ve been booted from the camp, so to [...]
Mandriva Testcases
Well, after some discussion on cooker and, quite frankly, needing a resource myself to speed up security update testing (particularly looking for regressions), we’ve re-implemented “Testzilla”. Sorta. Instead of integrating with bugzilla, we’ve used the mediawiki framework. The reasons for this many. The biggest reason is to make the “Testzilla” as accessible as possible to [...]
Bugzilla 3.2rc1 is live on qa.mandriva.com
Seven weeks ago I setup a local copy of Bugzilla 3.2rc1 to test the upgrade/migration from 3.0.5, using the templates and data from Mandriva’s bugzilla. Tonight it went live on qa.mandriva.com. Although it could have gone up 6 weeks ago, due to the release of 2009.0 coming up (which always leads to a massive influx [...]
Mandriva Linux 2009.0 Released Today
Today marks the release of Mandriva Linux 2009.0 (the 23rd Mandriva release!) and for the first time in probably 5 years, I was actually involved with it’s development. =) The last few years I’ve stepped away from any sort of a developers role simply due to lack of time (security updates keep me real busy), [...]