“Failing that, the latest news item on the Gentoo Linux home page — announcing the October 15 weekly newsletter — could be the project’s very last news release.” – DistroWatch Come again? Yes, Gentoo has some issues concerning the Gentoo…
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Update (10/21/07): ebuild and patch for konsole 3.5.8 I always felt a ‘paste selection’ menu item in konsole would be a great feature to have. I coded a two liner for konsole and submitted it to the KDE Bug Tracking…
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A new version of portpeek can be found here (version 1.5.7) or emerged through portage. Changes: Packages without (<>=) atoms should not be displayed as stable since this tool is for managing specific versions of packages in package.mask and package.keywords
I recently started using cscope and I thought I’d briefly type up the quick start for browsing the kernel source 1. emerge cscope 2. identify a directory to put your cscope generated files (~/cscope) 3. run the command to extract…
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I’ve been using a small script I wrote last year to manage the elogs created by Gentoo’s portage program. It’s a simple script to display the log files with the ability to also delete them. More details here. root #…
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Download and install quilt. (emerge quilt, of course) cd linux-2.6.21 (or whatever release you are creating a patch for) Tell quilt you want to start making a patch quilt new patchname-does-something-version.patch Tell quilt which files you are going to be…
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