Not the GWN, Vol. 1
Binpkgs: how I learned to love them again
Not many people seem to be aware that portage can work quite nicely with binary packages.
This is a great help when trying to get systems up and running initially as you can get
a running system with X and Desktop Environment of your choice within minutes.
The first trick one has to learn is how to generate binpkgs. Since this is a rather
trivial exercise in bash scripting it is left to the interested reader as exercise.
Once those binpkgs are created one needs to get them installed on the victim machine.
There are two methods here: fetch them to /usr/portage/packages/All or let portage do the
fetching magic. This is surprisingly easy:
PORTAGE_BINHOST="http://gentoo.repository.tld/path/to/BINHOST"
Now you only have to make portage use it by default:
FEATURES="getbinpkg"
Et voila, portage does magic.
How does one find a BINHOST ? Well, that depends on wether you trust random people.
For example http://dev.gentooexperimental.org/binpkg/ -
but then you'd have to be insane.
Gentoo in the press
From the New Mexico Public Regulation Comission:
GENTOO FOUNDATION, INC.
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Tax & Revenue Number:
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Involving the community
How to make gentoo the bestest ever - isn't that what we all want to do?
It sounds quite easy, but actually doing it seems to be really difficult. Winning a peace nobel prize while having the Mr.Universe title in bodybuilding
and winning the lottery three times in a row difficult.
First of all, you should know how to file bugs. If anything should not work as expected you can at least make people aware of it.
Second, if you have the time, learn about testing and how to use /etc/portage/* - that will allow you to test fixes for those issues if they are made available.
Third, find out what the Sunrise Overlay is and what proxy maintainers are all about. Then you might be able to maintain ebuilds for things that interest you.
Fourth, try to help other people. To get where we are now most of us did need help at one point or another. Give what you have received, Karma's a bitch ;)
Fifth, send positive photons. Make people happy. If someone fixes a bug for you thank him etc. Apply common sense!
If you think you can't help on a technical level you can still get involved with documentation, translation or just pointing people in the right direction.
Be creative, there are many ways to help. And it's only going to happen if we all work together.
Peace out!
Tips & Tricks: vi and vim
:wq!
Person of the week: Buddha
Siddhartha Gautama aka. Buddha is a historical figure from India. He became well known for his spiritual and philosophical theories that founded a Religion
(although many people are of the opinion that it's only an ethical framework and lacks key features to make it a religion. Usually those people are also the first
in front of the wall when the revolution starts ...)
To quote our contributor Wik I. Pedia on Sid's teachings:
The following points are the a few of the fundamentals of the teachings of Gautama Buddha:
- The Four Noble Truths: that suffering is an inherent part of existence; that the origin of suffering is ignorance and the main symptoms of that ignorance are attachment and craving; that attachment and craving can be ceased; and that following the Noble Eightfold Path will lead to the cessation of attachment and craving and therefore suffering.
- The Noble Eightfold Path: right understanding, right thought, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness, and right concentration.
- Dependent origination: that any phenomenon 'exists' only because of the ?existence? of other phenomena in a complex web of cause and effect covering time past, present and future. Because all things are thus conditioned and transient (anicca), they have no real independent identity (anatta).
- Rejection of the infallibility of accepted scripture: Teachings should not be accepted unless they are borne out by our experience and are praised by the wise. See the Kalama Sutta for details.
- Anicca: That all things are impermanent.
- Anatta: That the perception of a constant "self" is an illusion.
- Dukkha: That all beings suffer from all situations due to unclear mind.
Unlike his spiritual brother Joshua of Nazareth aka. Jesus he was not nailed to a cross and killed for suggesting the peaceful coexistance of people. Sadly most of the people
claiming to follow either of these two teachers do not actually understand the implications of their religions, and world peace is still very far away.
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Java: the quiet team strikes back
Our contributor Evil Compile Person reports that the Java team has a surprisingly excellent level of quality in their ebuilds.
While E.C.P. has found lots of breakage all over the tree he was unable to find any real breakage in all 467 ebuilds or so they maintain.
Naively one might assume that all Gentoo herds and maintainers work towards this level of reliability, but sadly the Java team seems to be
quite alone in their effort.
We wish to thank the Java team for their excellent work and hope that their good influence radiates all over the ebuild tree!
Interesting train travel routes
- Rheingraben, season special - early spring and autumn. Scenic route through west and southwest germany.
- Jungfraubahn, the highest train line and train stops in Europe. Cold all year long, but the view makes up for it.
- TGV line Saint-Marcel-les-Valence and Marseille, one of the fastest rail racetracks around the world.
- Transsib north route - a multi-day journey through Russia and China. Detours to Pyongyang possible.