May 11, 2011 · 2 minute read · Comments
General
As everyone should know, underscores in C are not cool, as they cause undefined behavior per 7.1.3:
All identifiers that begin with an underscore and either an uppercase letter or another underscore are always reserved for any use. [...] If the program declares or defines an identifier in a context in which it is reserved (other than as allowed by 7.1.4), or defines a reserved identifier as a macro name, the behavior is undefined.
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Apr 30, 2011 · 1 minute read · Comments
Debian
The last two weeks, two new python-apt releases were made. 0.8.0~exp3 did not add much, but 0.8.0~exp4 added some new bindings for our friends at the mancoosi project. I also committed several fixes to the APT repository, but did not upload them yet.
In #debian-devel, some people (including me and others on the Debian side; and sladen, sabdfl for the Ubuntu side) discussed the Ubuntu font license which is considered non-free by Debian, due to extreme naming restrictions in section 2 (unmodified versions must keep the name, slightly modified versions must keep the name and add something).
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Apr 15, 2011 · 2 minute read · Comments
Debian
python-apt 0.8.0~exp2 bug fix release On Tuesday, I uploaded python-apt 0.8.0~exp2 to experimental, fixing about 10 bugs reported in Ubuntu and Debian bug trackers. It should know even convert integers correctly on all architectures, previously we could have passed long via varargs where int was expected.
Bugs Until Thursday, I went through the bug list in Launchpad and closed/fixed/reassigned/merged about 100 bugs in APT and python-apt.
APT & python-apt updates for squeeze Today, I uploaded updates of apt and python-apt to stable.
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Apr 8, 2011 · 3 minute read · Comments
Debian
Internship / APT stuff This week was a rather busy week. I’m currently doing a (unpaid) 1 month internship as part of my education. Thanks to Michael Vogt and his boss at Canonical Ltd, this internship takes place in IRC and is dedicated to Debian and Ubuntu stuff, primarily APT-related things.
The first two days were spent on multi-arch support in python-apt: On Monday, I released python-apt 0.7.100.3, introducing initial minimal multi-arch support (just enough to not break anymore, but no really new multi-arch-specific API).
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Dec 10, 2010 · 1 minute read · Comments
Debian
As some already know, is that I use sbuild to build all my packages in clean chroot environments. For this, I use the ‘aufs’ “mode” of schroot, that allows you to setup a chroot with one read-only base directory and one writeable overlay where changes are written to.
One thing I had problems with was the time required to install build dependencies due to disk I/O. Given that I have 4G RAM in my computer, I decided to use a tmpfs as the writable overlay.
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Nov 14, 2010 · 1 minute read · Comments
Vettel made it - F1 World Champion 2010.
Oct 26, 2010 · 1 minute read · Comments
General
The following program, compiled with clang 1.1, runs 500 times faster than the gcc4.5-compiled code (in both cases with -O2):
<span style="color:#008200;">#include <stdio.h></span> <span style="color:#008200;">#define len 1000000000L</span> <span style="color:#830000;">unsigned long</span> <span style="color:#010181;">f</span><span style="color:#000000;">(</span><span style="color:#830000;">unsigned long</span> a<span style="color:#000000;">,</span> <span style="color:#830000;">unsigned long</span> b<span style="color:#000000;">)</span> <span style="color:#010181;">__attribute__</span><span style="color:#000000;">((</span>noinline<span style="color:#000000;">));</span> <span style="color:#830000;">int</span> <span style="color:#010181;">main</span><span style="color:#000000;">()</span> <span style="color:#000000;">{</span> <span style="color:#010181;">printf</span><span style="color:#000000;">(</span><span style="color:#ff0000;">"%lu</span><span style="color:#ff00ff;">\n</span><span style="color:#ff0000;">"</span><span style="color:#000000;">,</span> <span style="color:#010181;">f</span><span style="color:#000000;">(</span><span style="color:#2928ff;">0</span><span style="color:#000000;">,</span> <span style="color:#2928ff;">2</span><span style="color:#000000;">*</span>len<span style="color:#000000;">));</span> <span style="color:#000000;font-weight:bold;">return</span> <span style="color:#2928ff;">0</span><span style="color:#000000;">;</span> <span style="color:#000000;">}</span> <span style="color:#830000;">unsigned long</span> <span style="color:#010181;">f</span><span style="color:#000000;">(</span><span style="color:#830000;">unsigned long</span> a<span style="color:#000000;">,</span> <span style="color:#830000;">unsigned long</span> b<span style="color:#000000;">)</span> <span style="color:#000000;">{</span> <span style="color:#830000;">unsigned long</span> sum <span style="color:#000000;">=</span> <span style="color:#2928ff;">0</span><span style="color:#000000;">;</span> <span style="color:#000000;font-weight:bold;">for</span> <span style="color:#000000;">(;</span> a <span style="color:#000000;"><</span> b<span style="color:#000000;">;</span> a<span style="color:#000000;">++)</span> sum <span style="color:#000000;">+=</span> a<span style="color:#000000;">;</span> <span style="color:#000000;font-weight:bold;">return</span> sum<span style="color:#000000;">;</span> <span style="color:#000000;">}</span> Now, I would be interested to see what’s happening here.
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Oct 22, 2010 · 1 minute read · Comments
Python
Today, I got an email from an user of one of my Python scripts asking why the script t does not work on Arch Linux anymore. As it turns out, the Arch Linux team decided to switch /usr/bin/python to Python 3.0 and use python2 for Python 2.X versions. By doing this, they decided to make their distribution incompatible to almost any Python script in the world.
Arch Linux’s decision to diverge from the rest of the world that uses python for Python 2.
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Oct 20, 2010 · 2 minute read · Comments
APT2General
In today’s Linux distributions, there are usually two to three levels of package management. In this blog post, I will explain the three levels of package management.
1. Local (dpkg, rpm) The first level of package management is the ‘local’ level. This level consists of package management tools that install and/or remove packages via package archives such as .deb or .rpm files and a database of the local’s system state.
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Aug 30, 2010 · 1 minute read · Comments
General
It seems that Google is blocking wikileaks.org in its ‘Public DNS’ servers (8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4):
<div id="_mcePaste">; <<>> DiG 9.7.1-P2 <<>> @8.8.8.8 wikileaks.org ; (1 server found) ;; global options: +cmd ;; Got answer: ;; ->>HEADER<<- opcode: QUERY, status: SERVFAIL, id: 50227 ;; flags: qr rd ra; QUERY: 1, ANSWER: 0, AUTHORITY: 0, ADDITIONAL: 0 ;; QUESTION SECTION: ;wikileaks.org. IN A ;; Query time: 2457 msec ;; SERVER: 8.8.8.8#53(8.8.8.8) ;; WHEN: Fri Aug 27 18:10:43 2010 ;; MSG SIZE rcvd: 31</div> Update: Sorry Google, for me doubting you.
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