Zigo's blog

The point of switching to a new init system is to get rid of huge init scripts. Well, here’s an example OpenRC runscript, rewriting /etc/init.d/rsyslog: #!/sbin/runscript command=/usr/sbin/rsyslogd name=”enhanced syslogd” depend() { provide rsyslogd syslog need $remote_fs $time } Pretty minimalistic to me… For the record, the original sysv-rc script was 126 lines, and the above […]

I have always pretended that OpenRC would be very easy to port to Debian GNU/kFreeBSD. Well, now I stop pretending: http://youtu.be/zoNoi8BgQjs This was done within a few hours working with upstream. Now, next-up: Debian GNU/Hurd. Hoping that porters will volunteer to do the work.

OpenStack “upstream” was released today. Thanks to the release team and a big up to TTX for his work. By the time you read this, probably all of my uploads have reached your local Debian mirror. Please try Havana using either Sid from any Debian mirror, or using the Wheezy backports available here: deb http://havana.pkgs.enovance.com/debian […]

After upgrading my Sid virtual machine hosting my Jenkins, build after git push stopped working. This is because version 1.503 and above require an auth token for triggering the build. Since it took me some time to search the web, I’ve decided to blog about it to save time to other Jenkins users. Under each […]

Announcement After a very long work, over the course of 4 months, I have finished packaging the first RC1 of OpenStack. This comes on time, just 9 days before the official Havana release. Please do try this RC1 before the official 2013.2, code name Havana, is released, and hopefully uploaded to Debian. All of the […]

—–BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE—– Hash: SHA256 Hi, I am not using my old GPG key, 0x98EF9A49 anymore. My new key, using 4096 SHA2 256, with fingerprint: A0B1 A9F3 5089 5613 0E7A 425C D416 AD15 AC6B 43FE has replaced the old one in the Debian keyring. Please don’t encrypt message to me using the old key […]