May 30, 2006
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I have been so excited about rMake, and now we can all use it. I urge everyone to check it out, it will give us much better packages…
I would also like to encourage all Foresight hackers to use rMake to do all cooking of troves that get committed. A note, buildRequires are very important… without a complete set rMake doesn’t know what to include in the build chroot. So the process is a little more time consuming, but worth it. Once we get all the buildRequires updated we should be much better off.
If you need help with rMake, #conary and #foresight on freenode are reasonable places to find it.
May 24, 2006
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Looking for a cool gig? rPath is hiring!
May 22, 2006
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Many people have found that the latest VMware player doesn’t build the kernel drivers for the 2.6.16 kernel. I found these instructions via google.
If you get this message, you need to run this script.
The kernel defined by this directory of header files does not have the same address space size as your running kernel.
Download this script, extract it, and cd to the directory that was created. Then run:
sudo ./runme
This script appears to do some patching then dumps you back into vmware-config.pl.
May 18, 2006
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Seventh Maintenance release in the 0.9.4 series
This is the seventh in a series of maintenance releases for Foresight Linux 0.9.4. These maintenance releases help you stay current and also ensure that new downloads include the latest stuff. To update to MR7, ’sudo conary updateall’, it’s that simple. There are new isos (both DVD and CD) http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/project/foresight/releases. Come and get it!
What’s changed since mr6?
Replaced blam with straw as our default feed reader.
Added bonfire, a nice cd/dvd burning application.
Updated chkconfig to a new version with overrides
Updates
conary
cowbell
glibmm
gst-plugins-base
gst-plugins-good
gst-plugins-ugly
gstreamer
gtkmm
icon-naming-utils
libpng
librsvg
libtiff
mysql
tango-icon-theme
vim
Added
tango-icon-theme-extras
MD5SUMS
81037a87f8ec4b108c40916a84540e49 boot.iso
de5a05ac0636a929211bf67d31b327af diskboot.img
31d8fc18a6b39978d35b9931555b5cc9 foresight-0.9.4.mr7-x86-disc1.iso
b57f05b4b1584f474598cd92a3ff6570 foresight-0.9.4.mr7-x86-disc2.iso
2251cb093726d022bc631fbc8c0258ea foresight-0.9.4.mr7-x86-dvd1.iso
May 17, 2006
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Seems all the cool kids are playing with xen now. Last night I took my first real stab at it and was amazed. Following Michael’s steps I got xen up in no time and found that it just works with our qemu images from rBuilder. With a couple tweaks it is even better. Here are the steps to get LAMP running in a xen domU.
First you need a few xen specific versions of things.
conary update mkinitrd=rtao.rpath.org@rpl:devel
conary update kernel=rtao.rpath.org@rpl:devel[xen]
conary update {glibc,glibc-utils,nscd}=rtao.rpath.org@rpl:devel[xen]
conary update bridge-utils=rtao.rpath.org@rpl:devel
conary update xen=rtao.rpath.org@rpl:1
Now reboot into the new xen enabled kernel.
You should be able to run sudo xm list and see your running dom0.
Now get your LAMP image.
Next step is to create a file that defines your domU, here is an example:
kernel = "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16.11-1.smp.xen.x86.i686.cmov"
ramdisk = "/boot/initrd-2.6.16.11-1.smp.xen.x86.i686.cmov.img"
memory = 128
name = "lamp0"
vif = [ '' ]
disk = [ 'file:/path/to/lamp-1.0.0-x86.img,xvda,w' ]
root = "/dev/xvda1 ro"
Youl will need to change file:/path/to/lamp-1.0.0-x86.img to where your image really is. Save that file as /etc/xen/lamp0. Time to boot this sucker, xm create -c lamp0. This creates a starts your domU and gives you a console. You will notice a warning in the boot process that your glibc isn’t xen friendly, we will address that shortly. You also might see some mingetty respawning error messages, we will fix that too.
When the boot finishes, you should have a console with a login prompt. Login as root, there is no password in this image. Congratulations, you are now running a domU!
First step would be to fix a few things. We need install the xen friendly glibc.
sudo conary update glibc=rtao.rpath.org@rpl:devel
Also, we need to remove or comment out these lines from the /etc/inittab file:
2:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty2
3:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty3
4:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty4
5:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty5
6:2345:respawn:/sbin/mingetty tty6
Please note that is 2 – 6, leave 1 there.
The thing that amazed me is that networking just works. If you have a dhcp server on your network, your domU has an real IP and fully networked. To try it, start the web server (sudo service httpd start) and find your IP (ifconfig). Pop that IP in your web browser and you should get the apache default page! Cool, huh?
If you do not have a dhcp server, you will need to configure the interface in the domU.
May 9, 2006
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By popular demand…
MD5SUMS for 0.9.4.mr6:
7b4b8328fbbbc24db278c81631a1bb97 boot.iso
02d368dffcbb8f2b95eb68f4716fa60a diskboot.img
47568d0c34cae91541b11d2d7bb5867c foresight-0.9.4.mr6-x86-disc1.iso
fdf0c4f963faed096b16565957229c93 foresight-0.9.4.mr6-x86-disc2.iso
dbb98a68afb4754cb1daa608299e3a3e foresight-0.9.4.mr6-x86-dvd1.iso
May 4, 2006
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Have I mentioned that vim 7 rocks! Here are some of the reasons why.
And, vim 7 is included in Foresight 0.9.4.mr6!
May 3, 2006
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Sixth Maintenance release in the 0.9.4 series
This is the sixth in a series of maintenance releases for Foresight Linux 0.9.4. These maintenance releases help you stay current and also ensure that new downloads include the latest stuff. To update to MR6, ’sudo conary updateall’, it’s that simple. There are new isos (both DVD and CD) and Virtual Machine images as well, http://www.rpath.org/rbuilder/project/foresight/releases. Come and get it!
Updated
banshee 0.10.10
beagle 0.2.6
evolution-sharp 0.11
firefox 1.5.0.3
gaim 2.0.0beta3
galago-sharp 0.5.0
gdm 2.14.5
libnotify 0.4.0
libxml2 2.6.24
mozilla 1.7.13
notification-daemon 0.3.5
pango 1.12.2
pmount 0.9.9
rsync 2.6.8
tethereal 0.10.13
vim 7.0f
vte 0.12.1
Added
notify-python 0.1.0
