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I just released KDE 3.5.8 to Fink unstable. There are a ton of little bugfixes in this release, as well as a few Fink-specific changes, mostly related to Leopard-compatibility… (A newer CUPS and a workaround for a stupid linker bug that won’t be fixed in time for 10.5.0.) As always, please let me know if you have any issues, or if it works for you. We’re going to try to fast-track the update to stable so we’re ready for Leopard. (Only 10 days to go!) Share on FacebookSure, it may seem quiet, but oh man, there’s been a lot going on. First of all, a little off topic… Hockey season has started again. Go ‘Canes! <grin> Second, as you might or might not be aware, a new kitty is coming to town soon. While David Morrison has done the majority of the work, I’ve been trying to help clean up some loose ends in getting things ready in Fink — validator fixes, working around compiler issues, and other misc stuff. Third, I and a few other folks have been working on finally getting GNOME up to 2.20 (including GTK+ 2.12) in Fink, which is a metric TON of work. GTK+ 2.8 introduced a dependency on Pango‘s Cairo backend, which has to bubble up into build-time dependencies for literally hundreds of Fink packages. Through a combination of brute force and some automation, this is now to the point where it’s time for brave users to help us find the kinks, test upgrades, and other fun stuff. Expect an announcement sometime this weekend with details. Fourth, I’ve been working on getting . . . → Read More: The Calm Before the Storm Share on FacebookFirst of all, I want to point out that OpenNMS 1.3.7 is out, and it’s full of awesomeness. Big speed improvements, my SmokePing clone, and lots of other cool stuff. I finally finished up the last of the packaging updates today; 1.3.7 is now in Fink, has Debian packages, and RPMs. I also spent a lot of time updating the installation instructions (Yum, Debian) so please, try it out, and if you run into any issues, let me know, and I’ll make sure the docs get fixed. In other news, I’ve actually started spending some time getting Fink stuff up-to-date again. PostgreSQL has bugfix releases coming up for all supported releases, and I have some KDE updates coming as well. In addition, I need to catch up on the KDE/Mac stuff, I’m going to start working on a new build this week. Share on FacebookA few weeks ago I finally released KDE 3.5.7 to Fink unstable, as well as KOffice 1.6.3. Both seem to be pretty solid and I’ve not really had any reports of issues, so it’s looking pretty good. In addition, I finally updated Fink stable to include the KDE 3.5.6 release that has been in unstable for months, as it’s had no major reports against it. I’ll give 3.5.7 a few more weeks to make sure there are no major issues with it, and then move it over as well. There is also another KDE4 release pending, API freeze is coming up Any Day Now, so I will try to refresh my binaries as well with the new code if I get the chance. Share on FacebookOpenNMS 1.3.5 is now in Fink 10.4 unstable. It’s mostly a bugfix release, with a few changes to notifications and thresholding. For a general idea of what’s changed, see the New and Noteworthy page at the OpenNMS wiki. For more details, see the full release notes. Share on FacebookIf you have not seen the announcement yet, OpenNMS 1.3.3 was released. It includes lots of bugfixes, as well as a start on separating out the native C code so that packaging a pure-java release of OpenNMS will be easier. We hope to have that wrapped up by the 1.3.4 release. I’ve released 1.3.3 into 10.4 Unstable, as well as the new iplike package for PostgreSQL. Unfortunately, I had to remove OpenNMS from 10.3 because the 1.3 series requires Java 1.5. I will probably go back and revert 10.3 to the latest 1.2 version, just so that something is available still. I also spent some time reworking the OpenNMS front page to be more useful for finding information. It was a pretty big mess of random links without much navigation to help people get to the info they need. There’s still more to do, but it’s definitely easier to figure out where to go now. The only problem is, enough people can actually see the link to the demo site that the demo site is hitting tomcat’s maximum connection limits. <grin> Hopefully that will get fixed up shortly, but . . . → Read More: OpenNMS 1.3.3 Released Share on FacebookI finished packaging the latest OpenNMS in Fink over the weekend. It’s now split into 2 packages — opennms (the main OpenNMS code), and opennms-pgsqlXX (the PostgreSQL database-specific code). You can now use OpenNMS with any version of PostgreSQL you like, just install the proper pgsql entry (after optionally dumping and migrating your data), start up the proper version of postgresql, and you’re set. Also, I spent some time figuring out how the Debian packages are built, and updated them to 1.2.9 in the OpenNMS APT repository. Share on FacebookSo I started my new job with OpenNMS monday, and after the requisite “help us clean up the support ticket queue” work that any newbie should be forced to go through (grin), I’ve been trying to get the latest OpenNMS release working in Fink. I must admit, despite the fact that 1.3.2 came out in January, I’d been putting off updating it because they it had been converted to maven. Now, maven is awesome. However, it’s not very compatible with the “build offline” way that packaging works in Fink — not to mention a number of other packaging projects. I’ve figured out the magic to make maven treat a downloaded tarball of dependencies as a repository, and have everything building/working now. (Yay) I’ll put it in Fink tomorrow, after some testing, but it’s looking good. Share on FacebookSo that was quick. It turns out I got an offer I couldn’t refuse. In an odd twist of fate, I will be working on the OpenNMS code base, for the third time. (This one’s the charm, right?) I will be doing community-facing stuff, as well as helping out with all the little things anyone has to do at a very small company. I get to do what I love, which is: a little bit of everything. 😉 Thanks to everyone for their support, I guess I’ll see you folks in #opennms on Monday! (OK, technically I’m already there, but man, that’s not as poetic.) Share on FacebookSo along with some other folks, I was laid off from my job at Raritan today. Although I’m disappointed to be leaving a stellar group of people to work with, I’m heartened by the outpouring of commiseration (and job offers!) from everyone. Thank you so much! If you know of anything interesting for a Perl/Java/Mac/Open-Source/Geek kind of person, let me know. And check out my resume while you’re at it. 😉 Share on Facebook |
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