Seems that a middle ground has been agreed on the GPP list – schweet.
Monthly Archive: January 2005
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Jan 29 2005
So long…
…and thanks! In reality, here’s to those pastures new, however they look pal. Had Caz here for t’weekend, a lot of fun, great to see her. Went to the Malt Cross, and waited 25 minutes for our coffees. Had Liz and Jo round tonight for pizza, wine and Sloe Gin. Ended up watching our wedding …
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Jan 28 2005
GPP
Trying to engender interest in using the same RPM-Fu as I used for Tomboy across the board for GNOME as part of the GNOME Packaging Project. Seems to me that accounting for the different ways in which various distributions install GNOME “out-of-FTP” should be part of the GPP’s remit. Went to the regular college outing …
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Jan 26 2005
Wednesday
I own Ogley! Well, the last two days, when not at college, have been spent blitzing the house, which had got into a bit of a state, I did downstairs yesterday evening, and today we did the upstairs – cleaned the bathroom, and tidied the whole shebang, looks much nicer now. Made an important phone …
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Jan 26 2005
curl
Uploading new curl packages – these restore sanity in terms of the scripts that they trigger, however, the previous packages had a typo in the spec file, so they won’t uninstall properly, and you’ll end up with two versions installed again, to solve this, once you’ve upgraded, do the following (exactly as it appears, ignore …
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Jan 25 2005
Benny Hinn
Couple of mentions of Bangalore grinding to a halt because of the Benny Hinn meetings there. One of them refers to an article asking a couple of interesting questions such as “were only the ‘cured’ allowed on stage?” and “if Hinn has [met the Pope] why can’t he heal the ailing Pope?” Now, I’ve never …
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Jan 25 2005
Tuesday
Uploaded new gimp packages – version 2.2.3 Joe: Was everyone wearing silver foil outfits? Planets are a little bit like a smaller, more exclusive version of Usenet aren’t they? Seems like Miguel has sorted his datestamps too. The Beagle demos rock hard, man that’s one nice piece of software. Don’t have the energy to build …
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Jan 24 2005
Reunion
There’s a former SuSE employee reunion this weekend, but I’m going to have to miss it But it’s because Caz is coming up for the weekend! Tomboy RPM spec is nearly done, just got to figure out how to use %{!?_with_suse: to then allow me to %define some stuff within a %if statement.
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Jan 24 2005
Date stamps
What’s up with Joe and Miguel‘s blog date stamps. Have they borrowed the TARDIS and started blogging from the future?
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Jan 23 2005
Tomboy
Started work on adding the option of specifying –with-suse to rpmbuild when building Tomboy to automagically (mmmm, love that word) set the correct prefix/sysconfdir.
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