man-db 2.6.0
I’ve released man-db 2.6.0 (announcement, NEWS, ChangeLog), and uploaded it to Debian unstable. Ubuntu is rapidly approaching beta freeze so I’m not going to try to cram this into 11.04; it’ll be in 11.10.
Wubi bug 693671
I spent most of last week working on Ubuntu bug 693671 (“wubi install will not boot - phase 2 stops with: Try (hd0,0): NTFS5”), which was quite a challenge to debug since it involved digging into parts of the Wubi boot process I’d never really touched before. Since I …
libpipeline 1.1.0 released
I’ve released libpipeline 1.1.0, and uploaded it to Debian unstable. The changes are mostly just to add a few occasionally useful interfaces:
- Add
pipecmd_execto execute a single command, replacing the current process; this is analogous toexecvp. - Add
pipecmd_clearenvto clear a command’s environment; this …
NTP synchronisation problems
The Ubuntu Technical Board is currently conducting a review of the top ten Brainstorm issues users have raised about Ubuntu, and Matt asked me to investigate and respond to Idea #25301: Keeping the time accurate over the Internet by default.
My first reaction was “hey, that’s odd - I thought …
man-db on Fedora
I just found out by chance that Fedora 14 switched from their old man package to man-db. This is great news: it should now be the beginning of the end of the divergence of man implementations that happened way back in the mid-1990s, when two different people took John W …
libpipeline 1.0.0 released
In my previous post, I described the pipeline library from man-db and asked whether people were interested in a standalone release of it. Several people expressed interest, and so I’ve now released libpipeline version 1.0.0. It’s in the Debian NEW queue, and my PPA contains packages …
Pipeline library
When I took over man-db in 2001, one of the
major problems that became evident after maintaining it for a while was the
way it handled subprocesses. The nature of man and friends means that it
spends a lot of time calling sequences of programs such as zsoelim <
input-file | tbl …
Windows applications making GRUB 2 unbootable
If you find that running Windows makes a GRUB 2-based system unbootable (Debian bug, Ubuntu bug), then I’d like to hear from you. This is a bug in which some proprietary Windows-based software overwrites particular sectors in the gap between the master boot record and the first partition, sometimes …
debhelper statistics, redux
Apropos of my previous post, I see that dh has now overtaken CDBS as the most popular rules helper system of its kind in Debian unstable, and shows no particular sign of slowing its rate of uptake any time soon. The resolution of the graph is such that you can …
GRUB 2: With luck …
… this version, or something not too far away from it, might actually stand a chance of getting into testing.
I’ve just uploaded grub2 1.98+20100702-1. The most significant set of
changes in this release is that it switches /boot/grub/device.map and the
grub-pc/install_devices debconf question …
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