New Wordpress (2.2.0) etch-backport

I did rebuild the brand new version of wordpress for etch. New user requests and etch-bpo [http://lists.backports.org/lurker-bpo/message/20070419.092600.5007052f.en.html] stated: > * Is the backport neccessary? I don't think we should upload packages to bpo simply because we can do it…

windows in domU on etch. where is the showstopper?

Since some days I'm trying to install windows into a domU just for fun. All went fine until accessing discs. Sometime partition is not formatable [http://kaoso.org/pics/xen-windowsxp.png], sometimes files could not read from cdrom. To be sure, it's not the disc image,…

Taking Xen guests (domU) alive via routed network

The xend config looks like this: playground:~# grep -v ^# /etc/xen/xend-config.sxp (network-script 'network-bridge netdev=dummy0') (vif-script vif-bridge) (dom0-min-mem 196) (dom0-cpus 0) Creating volume group for Xen domU (/dev/hdb2 was allready created with id 8e): playground:~# pvcreate /dev/hdb2 Physical volume "/dev/hdb2" successfully…

Getting started with XEN on etch

Today I thought it's time to look deeper into the Xen [http://www.xensource.com/] hype. So I decided to install xen on etch [http://www.debian.org/releases/etch/]. I followed Ganneffs recommandation [http://kosh.ganneff.de/~joerg/clt2007_xen.pdf] playground:~# aptitude install bridge-utils iproute \ xen-ioemu-3.…

MySQL5 support in php5 packages on backport.org

I'm stuck of the requests linking php5 on backports.org [http://backports.org] against "MySQL5". You need support of MySQL5 or the mysqli extention for your php5 packages for sarge? So the packages on backports.org [http://backports.org] are not what you want. The packages…

last weekend on CLT

Reduced the work queue after the nice weekend on CLT [http://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2007/info/], I have some time to write a summary. After 2 years I was able to be there again, cause I blocked the weekend early in my timetable. The event was organized quite well like…

OpenWRT 0.9 / X-WRT 2.75

Last week I updated my WRTSL54GS [http://blog.waja.info/2006/06/27/we-got-some-linksys-wrtsl54gs-imported-from-us/] to OpenWRT [http://openwrt.org] 0.9 with X-WRT [http://www.x-wrt.org] 2.75. Since my box has an USB port, I was missing a way to umount mounted usb storage. Looking deeper into it,…

Etch frozen!

Yesterday the release manager Andreas 'aba' Barth announced: > Etch is now frozen! Wheeeeeee!!! [http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/12/msg00004.html] This means, that "all packages now need to be hand-approved in order to go to testing". So policyd-weight [http://packages.qa.debian.org/…