Posts Tagged ‘ Mandriva ’

Poor review with heartwarming community response

Whoa, been quite a long time since I’ve blogged last time now and the longer it’s been, I’ve felt that I’ve needed to come up with something of more interest to blog about once I finally do some blogging again… ;) Well, I read this poor review of Mandriva Linux 2010 (the only poor review I’ve [ READ MORE ]

Interviewed by MAGNUM

The french Mandriva Linux community magazine MAGNUM has just published their 06 issue where they’ve started a series of interviews with open source developers, and at the end of last year I had the honour of being their first to interview for this. :) The interview were conducted by mail, and since I was running late, [ READ MORE ]

PylibLZMA 0.5.2 & some Gdium / mips cooker work

I’ve had it lying around without no changes taking place for almost a month now, so I figured that I’d just go on and release pyliblzma 0.5.2 as I never updated the cooker package to 0.5.1 (which fixes some nasty bugs) because I was planning on releasing 0.5.2 right away anyways.. I never got that far [ READ MORE ]

post-FOSDEM

It’s been over a week since I got back from FOSDEM, so about time I should blog a bit about it. :) So coming back from FOSDEM last year I was a bit disappointed about Mandriva presence, this year we had our own booth at least and I must say that it was quite succesful! :) I hung [ READ MORE ]

pyliblzma 0.5.0 released & FOSDEM Mandriva stand

I’ve finally gotten around to spend some time on updating pyliblzma with xz support and some other improvements and a lot of fixes and cleanups. I ended up spending way more time on this than I was expecting since it was quite a while since I last time messed around with the code or even the python C [ READ MORE ]

xz (formerly known as lzma utils) has gone beta!

As Lasse Collin, the author of xz & liblzma promised, xz went beta before the end of the year and he release the first beta a few hours before midnight. This means that the API is now final and that the format is stable and ready for use! This is great news as this new format, library [ READ MORE ]

Smart updated with more urpmi functionality implemented

Over the last week I’ve been messing a bit with smart again. :) I’ve now merged in 1.1.1 from trunk into my own mandriva branch and started work on a urpmi channelsync plugin. This plugin will read urpmi’s configuration from /etc/urpmi/urpmi.cfg, use the same metalink data under /var/lib/urpmi and has also initial mirrorlist support using urpmi’s mirrors cache [ READ MORE ]

New pyliblzma release

I’ve just released pyliblzma 0.4.1. This release is mainly just fixes to build with liblzma 4.999.6 which I updated cooker to recently. I was also made aware of issues with smart & pyliblzma in Mandriva, the 0.4.0 release which added the LZMAFile class which were required by the info.xml.lzma support I recently added to smart, didn’t make [ READ MORE ]