Gentoo Talk

I’m prodly to present a Gentoo Talk in “Jornadas Badopi” in Barcelona this weekend :) so everybody is invited. Is mi fisrt conference in almost one year :P

Recursos2, gentoo-devmeeting and other meetings

I made a ebuild for Recursos2, now you can emerge (~x86) it easily and follow the instruction in the ebuild (really it must work in any distro).

Recursos2 is a bash script that use several system commands (sed, grep, awk, etc) to extract info about your system (cpu, mem, bandwithd, etc). This info can be reported in “raw” mode (nice to create an rrd database), text mode (nice to email it) and in html mode.

Optionally use rrd and imagemagick to create nice use graphs. It is very flexible and works nice in any arch inclusive in embedded systems.

• You can download it here.
• A live demo here. (some times is not online)
• A exmaple of html report here.

In other Hand we are seachign new dates for a gentoo-devmeeting maybe in Jaunary :)

So meanwhile for spanish public i have a talk about Gentoo in the Barcelona’s LUG (15-17 September) and other gentoo Devs will stay there too.

New localepurge option, cherokee version and.. Gentoopalooza!

A new pretend mode and regex support is now in localepurge-0.5.2 using this patch so enjoy :). I upload also the new version of cherokee to portage. See changeLog for version 0.5.4 here.

In other hand we are trying to have anice devs & users meeting in Seville, so stay tuned, some european devs and USA devs will come to have talks and enjoy :)

regards

Long time: Removing Junk and Amsterdam Picts

Finally all ebuild’s ebooks has een removed from portage. Now you must use ebookmerge or download it manually. So LIDN can be death ut you can use the “-m” option to use a mirror. A brief usage of ebookmerge here.

About WordPress i finally updated to WP 2.x so now i use antispam plugins :D. I use: Askimet, the defautl WP plugin and a plugin called DYPM. It will ask you for a lil and simple math operation before post a comment.

So… i have a new camera :P. I proudly own a Canon EOS 350D. It works perfectly in linux in PTP mode. I use eos + f-spot + flickr and all works very well. I just begin to use this camera so i upload a few “art” picts to my DA account.
In other hand… you remember my last birthday in Amsterdam? Well.. i repeated it this year :P the new picts are here. I must upload about 150 more picts so meanwhile you can watch this. This year i go with more firends, so more funny :P. I’m using now a flickr pro account to store all my picts (i dont want to overload the bonsaikitten server again :P) so a few picts are “censored” you need to have a flickr account and add me to your contact list (sorry…). Mostly picts are not made by me so dont expect the “expectacular” picts of the last year.

Enjoy

Listen!!!

Listen is a music management and playback for GNOME, It’s really great :)
And now thanks to the contributors fo bug #121740 it’s in portage.

Enjoy and test please. It need >=libgpod-0.3.2-r1 and dbus with python USE

Haciendo el Indio

So long time without post :)

I was busy with a lot of job related with nagios, i will try to post a few tips about nagios soon.

In other hand i was busy taking care of my self :)
I was in the Xerez GP, was a great race, Duccatti (my favourite brand) won so the spanish pilot Pedrosa was second in him first GP, in the other categories (125 & 250) the spanish team was the best.

I was trying too WakeBoard in the best school of Europe.. yes it is in Seville :P was funny so i drinked too much river water, i need a lot of practice :P

Then i was to Sierra Nevada to enjoy the final days of snow here, was funny i really needed it … So my body need to rest a lil, i must have something broke.

So what about Linux?

i’m involved in a pair of interesting new projects, more news soon.

And the best version ever of Cherokee is now in portage, the version 0.50 with support for fcgi and scgi. Try it, is really fantastic.

So finally, maybe some of you remember the photos of my latest birthday in amsterdam :) well… i will return this year too with more firends :P i will stay there 20-23 of april, if any one want to take a beer just mail me soon.

How to use “localepurge”

A few users have some problems with app-admin/localepurge so i will xplain how o t use it :)

Actually you can use 2 versions. 0.4 version is considered stable and 0.5 is masked because it add a new feature, the multidir search. Use both by your own risk.

Install it :

# emerge app-admin/localepurge

Configure :

You just need to uncomment the features you want to use, and add the locales you want to keep in your system.

# vi /etc/locale.nopurge

Tip : get a list of locales.

# less /var/cache/localepurge/localelist

Execute localepurge :

# localepurge

You can use a few options in command line:

-help,-h : Help!.

-version : Version.

-debug,-d : Debug.

-nocolor,-nc : Disable color output.

-verbose,-v : Verbose output (recomended).

And some options in the config file:

MANDELETE : Purge man pages too.

SHOWFREEDSPACE : Show freede space.

VERBOSE : Verbose output.

NOCOLOR : Disable color output.

enjoy :)

New version of localepurge

I just released a new version of app-admin/localepurge. More locales supported and now colorized!!!

A testing version is just released too :)
Version 0.5 add support for multiple directories so test it and tell me.

ebookmerge

So long time without post :)

Last night i uploaded a new version(0.9) of ebookmerge to portage. Ebookmerge is a tool for manage ebooks in gentoo per user. All app-doc/ebooks-* has been masked pending removal.
With ebookmerge you can:

Retrieve an update listdirectly from the lidn web:

bass@bebop ~ $ ebookmerge.sh -r
* Dowloading list from http://lidn.sf.net…
* Dowloaded. Use -l for a list.
bass@bebop ~ $

You can search:

bass@bebop ~ $ ebookmerge.sh -s sed
* Results for sed :
sed-3.02.tgz
bass@bebop ~ $

Show the list of aviable and installed ebooks:

bass@bebop ~ $ ebookmerge.sh -l

Download an ebook to current directory:

bass@bebop ~ $ ebookmerge.sh -d sed-3.02
* Dowloading eBook sed-3.02 in /home/bass…
* Dowloaded.
bass@bebop ~ $

Emerge the ebook. It download the ebook and install it in DevHelp repository (you need devhelp >=0.10)

bass@bebop ~ $ ebookmerge.sh -e textutils-2.0.tgz
* Dowloading eBook in /tmp/tmp.bo2pCv…
* Dowloaded.
* Preparing to install /tmp/tmp.bo2pCv/textutils-2.0.tgz in DevHelp…
* unpacking /tmp/tmp.bo2pCv/textutils-2.0.tgz…
* /tmp/tmp.bo2pCv/textutils-2.0.tgz installed in DevHelp :-)
bass@bebop ~ $

Uninstall an ebook:

bass@bebop ~ $ ebookmerge.sh -u sed-3.02
* sed-3.02 will be deleted in 5 seconds….
* sed-3.02 was deleted.
bass@bebop ~ $

And of course the help:

bass@bebop ~ $ ebookmerge.sh -h
eBook downloader for Gentoo Linux [ v 0.9 ]
by bass@gentoo.org* Usage: ebookmerge.sh options (-hlrid)-l : list aviable eBooks and installed eBooks.
-r : retrieve/refresh eBooks list.
-d NAME : download eBook.
-i NAME : install eBook previously dowloaded to devhelp.
-u NAME : uninstall eBook. Don’t use confirmation.
-e NAME : emerge an eBook.
-s EXPR : search eBook.
-c : disable color.
-h : show this help.

* To download and insatll an Ebook :
* ebookmerge.sh -e bashref-2.05a.tgz or other eBook name.

* This script actually doesn’t works with relative paths.
bass@bebop ~ $

It’s more easy to mantain this script that a lot of lil ebuilds and an eclass…
Any bug or sugest please mail me or bug.gentoo.org.

In other hand, my picts fo the USA trip are in my gallery