By RangerRick, on January 16th, 2008
Just in time for the KDE release event (grin) -- a new KDE/Mac snapshot is available. I will be demoing it at the release event, thanks to Google and the KDE release coordinators for arranging free lodging, and my employer, OpenNMS, for covering my travel!
On to info about the snapshots.
Qt is updated to 4.3.3, and my build tools have been updated to use the KDE 4.0 branch now that 4.0.0 has been tagged. This does mean that kdepim and kdevelop are no longer being built (for now). Also, I'm not building Amarok right now since it has some compile issues, and I need to get with the Amarok folks to figure out what to do about some architectural issues (no Plasma on OSX).
Nothing huge code-wise has changed from a Mac point of view, other than all of the general updates that have gone on in the KDE codebase since the last snapshot. It appears that kdeinit4 and kded4 both have some crashing issues related to something deep in Qt, I will be investigating it when time permits. In the meantime, a lot of apps still work. Notably, KOffice apps appear to work now! In fact, KSpread is looking pretty darn good.
The torrents are still in the process of uploading to my seed servers, I've got most of them finished but a few are still going, and the "everything" torrent is still going, so if you're impatient, grab the individual packages of the stuff you want for best results. Note that I will be traveling to San Jose for the release event today, so you may see the torrents stop updating for a while but I will resume them as soon as possible.
As always, comments and questions are welcome, just send me an e-mail or reply in the comments here.
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By RangerRick, on January 11th, 2008
So this is a bit off-topic, but I am addicted to Rock Band. One of the things that makes it so great is the huge amount of downloadable content available to expand the game with new songs, and stuff comes out weekly.
However, it's hard to tell what a song is, just from the title sometimes. Turns out you may know it but not realize you know it. I wanted to be able to hear the song before deciding whether it was worth downloading. I suspected that there were plenty of other folks who had a similar itch which needed scratching. So, I did something about it. =)
I've been looking for an excuse to do something "real" with rails, and this was it. In just a week of spare time, I've thrown together this:
rockband.racoonfink.com
It's not yet very pretty, but it does the job, you can preview the original artist tracks for each of the songs available through XBox Marketplace and the PS3 Online Store.
If you notice any issues, please let me know.
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By RangerRick, on January 11th, 2008
FYI, the "finkproject.org" domain name is down -- turns out it had expired and we didn't catch it. We're working on getting it fixed, just wanted to get the word out. Fink Is Not Kaput 😉
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By RangerRick, on January 8th, 2008
I've gotten all of the dependencies of OpenNMS packaged up on Fedora Core 8 now, and have our yum repository up-to-date.
If you're looking to install on FC8, you should be able to follow the usual instructions (substituting "fc8" for the distro) and it should work fine.
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By RangerRick, on December 13th, 2007
(No, it's not a suppository.)
Trolltech has released phonon backends for GStreamer, DirectShow, and QuickTime/CoreAudio, and will be maintaining them in the KDE codebase!
I guess it's time to start another build and see how Amarok sounds with nice CoreAudio output.
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By RangerRick, on December 12th, 2007
Figured it'd been a while since I did a general "status" post about what's been going on.
First and foremost, as I mentioned before, much of my spare time has gone into fixing up the Fink package database. It's now much easier on our web server, and uses a combination of PHP and a really spiffy Lucene-based full-text search engine called "Solr."
Also, I did some work on making Fink play nicer with the new Xquartz releases. It's still in testing, but in the meantime, their 2.1.1 release provides a workaround to allow Fink users on Leopard to run without issue.
I've also been wearing my OpenNMS.com hat recently, and am working on some spiffy customer-management tools for keeping track of our support work better. I'm a big fan of Ruby on Rails, and am mocking it up in that -- on top of JRuby, of course.
In the process, of getting my development system set up to do rails development, I updated all of the Fink packages for rails 2.0 and related stuff, as well as taking over rubygems from the previous maintainer. They're now all up-to-date, and I've been doing my rails development with a purely fink-based ruby/rails install, which is nice.
Plenty of other stuff got updated or added as well:
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By RangerRick, on December 10th, 2007
If you haven't noticed, the Fink package database is back up, and the server seems to be handling the load alright. I've fixed all of the bugs that I'm aware of, but if you notice anything strange in queries or other behavior you don't expect, please let me know.
Also, one thing I hadn't mentioned earlier is that in the process of reworking the PDB, I added a pretty major feature: RSS support. Any query you make through the browse interface has an equivalent query through the RSS interface. For example, if you have a query for unstable x86 packages in the "kde" section, excluding splitoffs, you can replace "browse.php" with "rss.php" and get an RSS feed with the results that match that query (in order of their last modification date in CVS).
Woot!
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By RangerRick, on December 6th, 2007
As of last night, the new PDB seems to be working alright with the (few) testers it's gotten from fink-devel yesterday evening, so I'd like to open this up to a wider audience.
Please, give the new test code a whirl and let me know if you see any issues.
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By RangerRick, on November 29th, 2007
OpenNMS 1.3.9 has been released. It's mostly a few small bug fixes and features, but it does fix a rather important deadlock in the database code that could cause notifications to not go out correctly (among other things).
Other than that, we've been pow-wowing on what to do for the next release -- there's a bunch of niggly little bugs that need to be cleaned up, but overall, the trunk codebase is still looking solid.
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By RangerRick, on November 21st, 2007
We've finally gotten the OpenNMS image for VMware put together and uploaded to SourceForge, with OpenNMS 1.3.8 on it. It hasn't been updated since the 1.3.3 VMware image was put together.
Since I'd been having such good luck with Mandriva, and as Tarus mentioned, they've been very supportive of us in general, I went ahead and made the image using Mandriva 2008.0. It has the advantage of being quite a bit smaller than our previous CentOS-based image (about 400MB compressed) and is a very minimal install with just the minimum needed to get OpenNMS up and running.
So if you were wanting to try OpenNMS out but didn't really have anywhere to run it, why not download the image from SourceForge and give it a shot? All you need is the free VMware player; just follow the README file inside the package and you should be off and running.
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