Archive for December, 2007
PackageKit 0.1.5
PacakgeKit 0.1.5 was released today. This release includes several fixes to the Conary backend:
Better error handling - The backend reports errors to PackageKit rather than just silently failing. Now when you try to update your system if there is an error you should get a nice message in your notification area that details the error. [...]
Posted: December 21st, 2007 under PackageKit, foresight.
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GNOME Developer Kit: much easier than building from SVN
Arstechnica recently published an article on the GNOME Developer Kit that Ken put together. It is based on Foresight Linux and automatically built from a fresh SVN snapshot every night using rMake. The project can be downloaded from gnome.rpath.org for anyone to use.
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Posted: December 16th, 2007 under foresight, rMake, rPath.
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managing sources with hg convert
One of the things I do at rPath is hack on Anaconda. We have decided to mostly standardize on Mercurial for our SCM. Since Anaconda, at the time, was managed in CVS, this meant that I needed to find a tool to convert a publically accessible CVS repository to a Mercurial repository. The only tool [...]
Posted: December 1st, 2007 under anaconda, rPath.
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