Archive: December, 2010
RCBW, week two
Published by Jon on December 23rd, 2010 in Debian | Comments Off
This week: #606151 (nordugrid-arc-nox): cherry-picked a patch from upstream and uploaded to DELAYED/1 #606670 (minitube): removal bug filed at request of maintainer #607762 (dbus-glib): bumped the build-dependency and uploaded to DELAYED/7 (later pushed into DELAYED/0 at maintainer’s request) #607427 (opensc): applied security fixes from upstream and uploaded immediately Not quite one fix per day, as [...]
Snow
Published by Jon on December 19th, 2010 in Photography | Comments Off
This time we didn’t escape it, and this time it was fairly spectacular. It snowed from about 07:00 to about 16:00 – 6-7 inches in the end, depending where it’s measured. This time we didn’t escape it, and this time it was fairly spectacular. It snowed from about 07:00 to about 16:00 – 6-7 inches [...]
The perfect gpg-agent setup
Published by Jon on December 19th, 2010 in Debian | 5 Comments »
When I first started using Debian properly, I played with gpg-agent and pinentry but I didn’t really understand the various bash initialisation scripts, and my botched setup annoyed me so much I disabled it again quite quickly (for example, if I left the machine logged in to GDM at home then logged in through SSH, [...]
Getting stuck into RC bugs
Published by Jon on December 16th, 2010 in Debian | 1 Comment »
Now that it’s much more convenient for me to do NMUs, and simultaneously there a handful of bugs that I can actually deal with, I guess it’s about time I got stuck into some RC bugs. Here’s my (rather modest) list of fixes for Squeeze the past few days: #606298 (deal.ii): can’t be reproduced by [...]
Dovecot, Lighttpd and SSL certificate renewals
Published by Jon on December 1st, 2010 in Debian, Notes, Tech | 1 Comment »
This is a mental note really, since my certificates last two years and I’ve always forgotten what to do about it. Generate a new request: openssl req -new -key <keyfile> -out <csrfile> StartSSL throw away all properties of the request except the key, so any answers will do. Re-use the request you sent last time [...]