Gentoo Weekly Newsletter: 17 July 2006
1.
Gentooニュース
VDRプロジェクトはあなたの手助けを必要としています
Gentoo Video Disk Recorder
(VDR)プロジェクトは、チームに参加し、手伝ってくれる人を探しています。
もし手伝うことに興味があるなら、
Matthias Schwarzottと連絡を取ってください。
2.
Developer of the week
"The emperor told me it was my destiny." -Jason Wever, aka Weeve
図 2.1: Jason Wever, aka Weeve |
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Developer Jason Wever, aka Weeve, grew up in upstate New York. At 27,
he currently resides in Broomfield, CO... for the rest of us, that is
somewhere outside of Denver.
Jason has a variety of interests. He has been able to fulfill his
childhood dream of becoming a pirate by riding the ebb and flow of
packet tides, stealing from the rich and streaming to the poor. When
he's not off pirating, Weeve also enjoys some more common things like
reading, walking, and biking. He enjoys listening to punk and a little
jazz, ska, or reggae and occasionally writes and performs as well.
Weeve also collects obscure punk, jazz, and classical vinyl records.
We might all be surprised to think of him listening to classical music,
but he said he does so in order to slow things down and to contemplate
the finer points of life. Yes that's right, this IRC clown has a
serious side. He believes that philosophy is something that should be
experienced, not taught and enjoys sampling other cultures and their
view of the world with regards to inner peace and serenity.
Weeve has a rather interesting job as a Security Engineer for Avaya.
He does penetration testing of products and helps determine the impact
of vendor advisories, like RHE or MS, on Avaya products. Weeve
obviously enjoys his work, stating "getting paid to break stuff is the
bomb!"
Weeve recalled his start with Linux... he was a Slackware user as it
did not make assumptions about what a user wanted or try to do things
for the user, but felt that he was limited with the package set.
That's when a friend introduced him to Gentoo. While running Gentoo on
a SPARC workstation, he answered forum posts, submitted bugs, and began
pestering Seemant until he made him a developer. An active developer
for four years, Weeve is also the Strategic Lead for the SPARC team,
and has recently joined the Infrastructure team.
As for his home machines, Weeve has an x86 server that runs apache,
samba, NFS, IMAP, and spamassassin. He also has an x86 laptop and an
AMD64 workstation. As to be expected, he also has a collection of SPARC
machines, to include 6 test SPARC64's (Ultra1, Ultra2, Ultra10,
Ultra60, Blade 100, and Blade 1000), as well as an assortment of
SPARC32 machines. The first apps he launches are rxvt-unicode,
gkrellm2, firefox, sylpheed-claws and/or pine, screen, xmms, and
aumix.
3.
Heard in the community
forumsより
dispatch-conf or etc-update?
Welp, an Arch Tester, created a poll asking people which tool they use
for managing files under CONFIG_PROTECT. etc-update seems to be
favored among the older users, as that was the only tool for the job in
previous releases. dispatch-conf on the other hand is favored
by mainly the newer users, although there are some older users who
swear by it. While almost 50% prefer either one of these utilities,
there are also a few who use neither, using programs such as
cfg-update to manage merging and updating configuration files.
Nazi / German 3rd Reich symbols
A discussion has sparked on the forums about the usage of Nazi symbols
on the Gentoo forums. Several different views are expressed by the
posters. What do you think? Speak your mind on the thread, as a
friendly discussion is wanted by those involved.
planet.gentoo.org
Gentoo around the world
Several events took place during the past few weeks, including the
Gentoo UK Conference in London and the Libre Software Meeting (LSM) in
France. Several people, including Damien
Krotkine, Boris
Fersing and Hanno Boeck
manned the Gentoo booth at LSM and gave away 2006.0 LiveCD's.
Daniel Drake reports about the
Gentoo UK Conference in his blog. About 65 people attended the third
Gentoo Conference in the UK and listened to talks about Ainkaboot (a
London-based startup company providing cluster-solutions based on
Gentoo Linux), an introduction to Gentoo's release engineering by
Tim Yamin and Andrew Cowie's
talking about "How Gentoo rocks in the enterprise". After a lunch-break
Daniel presented a few ideas about problems with the contribution flow
through the Gentoo community. Finally Bryan Østergaard gave a short
introduction to Gentoo's developer relations project, especially about
the recruitment and retirement process.
図 3.1: from left to right: dertobi123 (HPPA), Kugelfang (AMD64), plasmaroo (IA64/genkernel) and kloeri (Alpha) |
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LarryTheCow.com - Gentoo Community Portal
Thomas Cort started to build a
collection of Gentoo community sites with the goal of giving them more
visibility. larrythecow.com
provides not only links to community sites but also to their gentoo.org
counterparts. About 50 sites are currently added, please mail additions
to Tom.
New PHP revisions in the tree
New PHP versions (dev-lang/php-4.4.2-r6 and
dev-lang/php-5.1.4-r4) hit the tree some days ago. Notable
things include various bug and security fixes, but the shiniest new
feature is the concurrentmodphp USE Flag which allows use of
both mod_php4 and mod_php5 in the same Apache instance, with each
mod_php version having its own mime-types and configuration directives.
Though this feature is considered highly experimental, it has been
tested on x86.
4.
Tips and Tricks
仮想端末を切り替える
仮想端末の切り替えは、既に標準的なLinuxのインストールにおいて、キーの組み合せによってかなり簡単になっています。Xを使用しているなら、Ctrlキー+Altキーに加えて、変更したい仮想端末の番号のファンクションキーを付け足すだけです。戻るのも簡単です。単にCtlキー+Altキー+F7キーを押せばいいのです。Xを使っていないなら、押すキーがひとつ減ります - Altキー+F2キーです。
UNIXライクな環境における殆どのことと同様に、ゴールを目指すための道は他にもあります。この方法では全然違いはありません。sys-apps/kbdのebuildは、1コマンドで仮想端末を変更してくれるchvtのバイナリをインストールします。唯一必要なパラメータは、変更したい仮想端末の番号を示す整数値だけです。
コード表示 4.1: chvtで仮想端末を変更する |
# chvt 1
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もしXを使っているなら、rootでなければコマンドを実行することができません。そうでなければうまく動かないでしょう。しかしながらXを使っていないのであれば、どんなユーザでも動かすことができます。回避方法について興味がありましたら、app-admin/sudoを使ってユーザがX11セッション内からでもchvtを起動できるようにすることも可能です。
コード表示 4.2: sudo accessにchvtを加える |
$ echo "%users $HOSTNAME=/usr/bin/chvt" >> /etc/sudoers
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警告:
sudoの権限を変更する時は、あるコマンドを起動するためにrootアクセスを与えるわけですから、自分が何をしているかをきちんと把握していなければなりません。
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More ScummVM games
In a previous GWN article
we covered ScummVM a little bit,
and mentioned Flight of Amazon Queen as a freely downloable game.
A user wrote in to tell us that we forgot to mention another one,
Beneath a
Steel Sky, also available in portage.
So if you're looking for another classic point-and-click adventure game,
emerge games-rpg/bass, make sure your user is in the games group,
and run /usr/games/bin/bass.
5.
Gentoo developer moves
Moves
The following developers recently left the Gentoo project:
- Fernando Serboncini (fserb)
Adds
The following developers recently joined the Gentoo project:
Changes
The following developers recently changed roles within the
Gentoo project:
- Karl Trygve Kalleberg (karltk) - Stepped down as Java project
lead
- Joshua Nichols (nichoj) - Elected Java project lead
6.
Bugzilla
サマリ
統計
Gentooコミュニティでは、バグやお知らせ、提案やその他開発チームとのやり取りの記録、追跡にBugzilla(bugs.gentoo.org)を使っています。
2006年7月9日から2005年7月16日までのデータは以下のような結果になっています。
- 新しいバグ 863個
- クローズしたバグ 418個
- 以前クローズしたバグが再オープン 24個
現在オープンしているバグ10528個のうち、49個が「極めて重大(Blocker)」、139個が「重大(Critical)」、520個が「中(Major)」とラベル付けされています。
クローズしたバグランキング
この期間に最もバグをつぶした開発者とチーム
新しいバグランキング
The developers and teams who have been assigned the most new bugs during this
period are:
7.
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