June 21, 2012
New Django mercurial mirrors aimed at production servers
When Django was still using subversion, I used to mirror stable branches (1.2 when I started, 1.4 recently). This worked well and I could clone those repositories on production servers, and then it was just a matter of ‘hg pull -u’ to bring updates/fixes. Now.. Django has moved to git. I won’t comment on how […]
June 12, 2012
Unofficial mercurial mirror for Django that works
The documentation for Django mentions an “official” mirror for mercurial. Django got us used to a very high standard when it comes to quality. Unfortunately, this is exactly the contrary for this mirror. It’s quite often broken, or not updated, or both. The last itch is that nobody has taken care of it since the […]
March 30, 2012
Mercurial Mirror For Django 1.4 branch
Another Django release, another branch, another mercurial mirror… Cloning this one will costs you ~35Mb on your hard disk, compared to 167Mb for the official django mirror. This is updated once a day from the official svn, and it’s gonna stay for a long time : https://bitbucket.org/orzel/django-1.4-production/ For some reason, the 1.4 branch was not […]
January 11, 2012
Compiling firefox-9.0 on linux PPC
The good point is that yes!, it is possible to compile firefox 8.0 or 9.0 on linux-ppc. General point of view The mozilla foundation has stopped supporting the PPC platform for firefox starting with version 4.0. Gentoo ebuilds, quite understandably, followed upstream by removing ppc keywords for all firefox ebuilds >=4.0. Though… I still have […]
January 8, 2012
DjangoRedmineAdmin 1.0 released
I recently needed (again) to ‘browse’ a redmine database, and I used my DjangoRedmineAdmin application to do so. I took this opportunity to update the code and doing some more tests/fixes. As a result I decided to tag this as 1.0. The main modifications are: updated to comply with current redmine version (1.2.1 and 1.3.0) […]
December 2, 2011
Celery init scripts for Gentoo
I’m using django-celery on a project. The only difficult part was that gentoo ebuilds would not provide init scripts. It might be that some ebuilds in some obscure overlay provides those, but this was far too far away from the mainstream portage tree for me. Yes, the documentation about celery has some scripts using supervisord, […]
November 14, 2011
New lightweight admin-oriented linux kernel mercurial mirror
On most servers I’m responsible for, I use to compile my own kernels. Instead of downloading/applying patches, which is cumbersome, I was using the (now broken) mercurial mirror http://www.kernel.org/hg/linux-2.6 It was great as i just had to do something like “hg pull -u; hg up -r v2.6.xx” to update my tree. Though, this has several […]
November 9, 2011
EmergeActivity gets a graphical interface: releasing 2.0
I’m still using this small utility that displays the activity of ’emerges’ on the misc gentoo boxes I’m admin for. I’ve wanted to add a graphical interface for very long, but did not have the time… until recently. So here it is. It is available for download from the homepage and as a mercurial clone.
September 18, 2011
A small step forward for the mercurial activity plugin, releasing version 2.0
As time goes, my mercurial ‘activity’ plugin has got more and more options. Useful and requested options of course, but still it kinda clobber the –help output and it is more and more cumbersome to play with. This is why I have introduced a new frontend, based on Qt, to play/decide about those options. First, […]
May 13, 2011
How to detect Altivec availability on linux/ppc at runtime
It is easy to find information on how to detect the availability of the different SSE instructions sets on the x86 platform.. but this get trickier when you’re looking after AltiVec. This page provide some code and a link explaining why methods based on try and catch exception are bad: http://freevec.org/function/altivec_runtime_detection_linux I did few modifications […]