Yesterday I wished I had used svn instead of git as VCS for Licq’s debian package, when I accidentally deleted my local git clone with lots of commits that I hadn’t pushed…
Luckily I had all the changes in a different format so I didn’t have to redo all the work, but I had to spend time trying to commit the changes in a somewhat logical way.
Comments OffFollowing the instructions on how to create a new GPG key I have now created a new, more secure, GPG key. The new key’s id is 7E28522C, it’s signed with my old key and available on a key server near you.
Comments OffTo get better speed and a backup I’ve set up a mirror of debian/licq.git on Gitorious.org.
I don’t really know the best way to do this, but I did it by adding the following line to hooks/post-update:
git push --mirror git@gitorious.org:licq/debian.git |
This way the mirror will always be updated when I push to the “real” repository.
Get it by running
% gbp-clone --pristine-tar git://gitorious.org/licq/debian.git |
or clone it on Gitorious and send me merge requests 
To see if Licq would build without warnings with gcc 4.5 I tried to build Licq trunk with the latest gcc-snapshot in Debian today. Three warnings were quickly fixed but a bigger problem was that the unit test hung; something which doesn’t happen with earlier gcc.
After some digging it turned out to be a problem with locking. A mutex was never unlocked when returning in the exception handler. This was very strange as the unlocking should be done by the MutexLocker destructor.
I was able to reproduce the problem with a simple test program so I concluded that it was indeed a compiler bug and reported it: Destructor not called when returning in exception handler.
Not every day you get to find a compiler bug…
Comments OffUpdate 2010-10-30: Changed the initial setup to use gbp-clone.
I’m now officially the maintainer of Licq’s Debian packages. Since I’m not a real Debian maintainer, I’m very grateful to Joel Rosdahl who is my sponsor.
Version 1.3.8-1 is coming to a mirror near you as I write this.
The package source is kept in my git repository. To build the package from the git repository, install git-buildpackage and pristine-tar then follow the instructions below.
Initial setup:
% gbp-clone --pristine-tar git://git.ejohansson.se/debian/licq.git |
% git clone git://git.ejohansson.se/debian/licq.git licq % cd licq licq % git checkout -b pristine-tar origin/pristine-tar licq % git co master |
To build the latest version:
licq % git-buildpackage --git-export-dir=../build-area |
To build a specific version:
licq % git-buildpackage --git-export-dir=../build-area --git-export=debian/1.3.8-1 |
The final packages will be available in ../build-area.
Later on when you wish to update:
licq % git pull licq % git-buildpackage ... |
The next version will have qt4-gui.
Comments OffFound this useful command on brain-dump.org. Posting it here for my own reference:
gcc -dM -E - < /dev/null |
To enable Wake on LAN on a Asus P5E-V motherboard under Debian you can do the following. Since I have a Asus motherboard, that’s the only one I’ve tested, but except from the BIOS (which may differ a bit), the instructions should be the same for all motherboards/NIC that supports Wake on LAN.
In the BIOS, enable “Power on by PCIE device”.
In Linux, first install ethtool and then check that Wake on LAN is supported by running the following command:
root@host$ ethtool eth0
...
Supports Wake-on: g
Wake-on: g
... |
The output should contain a ‘g’ to indicate that the device can be woken by sending it a “magic packet”.
Enable Wake-on by running:
root@host$ ethtool -s eth0 wol g |
Since this command must be run on every boot, add it to /etc/rc.local.
root@host$ cat /etc/rc.local ... ethtool -s eth0 wol g exit 0 |
As the last step we must make sure that halt doesn’t disable the network device. This is done by adding this line to /etc/default/halt:
NETDOWN=no |
We also need the MAC address to send the magic packet to.
root@host$ ifconfig eth0 eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:1e:8c:cf:d0:bb ... |
Then shutdown the computer. On an other computer, install e.g. wakeonlan and run:
user@other$ wakeonlan 00:1e:8c:cf:d0:bb |
The computer should now start.
2 comments so far, add yours ▶Found a very interesting C++ site the other day: C++Next. I highly recommend it if you’re interested in “the next generation of C++”.
Comments OffLicq 1.3.7-rc1 was announced a few days ago. To quote the announcement:
Licq 1.3.7 contains many bugfixes, and several new features in the Qt4-Gui such as spell checking and configurable keyboard shortcuts.
Download it from the usual place.
Comments OffAfter a long time offline, git.ejohansson.se and svn.ejohansson.se are finally back online. They are served from my NSLU2 machine (running Debian) so they are not the fastest loading pages out there.
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