Yes, it’s true.
I have two words for this: Woohoo! Finally.
Category Archives: Debian
The SPI election results are in
The results are in. Bruce was removed from the board, and Josh Berkus, Neil McGovern, and Michael Schultheiss were added. (Neither Mako nor I sought another term.)
Congratulations to the winners — I’m sure you will go far. I’m glad to see enthusiastic people around SPI and I’m sure you’ll do a great job.
An additional RedHat Gripe
Debian base install: about 150MB
RHEL base install: about 1GB
df showing 1% of disk used: priceless
How to solve “The following packages cannot be authenticated”
Users of Debian’s testing or unstable distributions may be noticing messages from apt saying things like:
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! foo bar baz Install these packages without verification [y/N]?
I noticed today that google doesn’t turn up good hits for the fix. The fix is really simple:
apt-get install debian-archive-keyring apt-get update
That’s it. You now have secure packages from Debian. Nice, eh?
Debian From Scratch 0.99.0 Is Out
At long last, I’ve finally updated Debian From Scratch (DFS). For those of you not familiar with DFS, it’s a single, full rescue CD capable of working with all major filesystems, LVM, software RAID, and even compiling a new kernel. The DFS ISO images also contain a small Debian mirror subset that lets you use cdebootstrap, along with the other utilities on the CD, to perform a manual, “Gentoo-like” installation. It also serves as an excellent rescue CD, with a full compliment of filesystem tools, backup/restore software, and a development environment complete enough to build your own kernels.
DFS also refers to dfsbuild, the tool that generates DFS images. dfsbuild is available as a Debian package. dfsbuild is designed to make it trivial to build your own custom DFS images. You can have your own set of Debian packages on your images, your own kernels, etc. Unlike many other systems, you can go from the example dfs.cfg to a customized DFS build in just a few minutes, even if you’ve never used dfsbuild before.
Version 0.99.0 is a from-scratch rewrite and port to Haskell. You can read the full list of new features in the announcement, but the biggest is that it now supports standard Debian initramfs kernels in addition to ones that have enough drivers statically linked to be able to read the CD-ROM.
You can also download my DFS images or browse the docs online.
Rats, I finally had to make an upload.
From the netmaze package tracking page:
DFS Installation Tutorial
Suramya Tomar has written a very nice tutorial on installing Debian from my Debian From Scratch images (or from DFS images you build yourself). Nice and thorough work.
Debian From Scratch
Newsforge has a nice article about Debian From Scratch, my Debian install-it-yourself CD, rescue CD, and CD builder package. I must say, Bruce Byfield’s instructions are more complete than my own documentation for it.
I now use DFS for most of my new Debian installations. Best of all, porting it to new archs is trivial.
ghc6 Hits Testing Today
Debian’s Haskell packages have been stuck out of testing for some time. I learned that they’re going in today, though, finally! There are also several other packages that this will push into testing, including my own MissingH.