Newsflash September 2005
 

The ROCK Linux Newsflashs are monthly batches of important changes that happened in the ROCK Linux Project. If nothing important happened, there also might not be a Newsflash :)

Here's the one for last months occurances:

Newsflash September 2005

Table of content:
- postinstall scripts
- devfs/udev for ROCK 3.0
- Linuxquestions.org Forum
- (EVENT) Linuxtag Dresden
- (BETA) fisheye server
- ROCKDoc statistics


postinstall scripts

In August, Stefan Fiedlers postinstall script support[1] found its way into
'mine', the package management tool for ROCK. Now there's also support for
them in the ROCK scripts[2] and some packages adapted to use install time
configuration with postinstall instead of manual or even compile time
configuration.
Package maintainers, please make use of this feature where appropriate!

[1] http://www.rocklinux.net/pipermail/r...st/001807.html
[2] http://doc.rocklinux.org/wiki/PostinstallScripts


devfs/udev for ROCK 3.0

With the removal of devfs from the Linux kernel it was decided that ROCK 3.0
needs at least perfect support for udev[1]. Development in this direction
will be coordinated by Benjamin 'blindcoder' Schieder so if you want to make
some development in this direction, please talk to him or directly to the
mailinglist to avoid doing the same work twice.

[1] http://www.rocklinux.net/pipermail/r...er/001837.html


Linuxquestions.org Forum

Thanks to jeremy for setting up a ROCK forum[1] at LinuxQuestions.org!

[1]http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/f65


(EVENT) Linuxtag Dresden

Daniel 'daja77' Jahre got us a booth at the Linux Info Tag Dresden 2005[1].
It is a one day show at the 29. October 2005. If you are in the area at that
time we'll be happy if you pay us a visit!

[1] http://www.linux-info-tag.de


(BETA) fisheye server

There's a fisheye[1] server for ROCK Linux set up now and currently in
betatesting[2]. It gives a nice feature set like annotated code viewing
and RSS feeds for any part of the repository you want to.
With the introduction of fisheye, Clifford Wolf also set up a SPL[3] script
which fixes the 'author' tag of the ROCK Linux repository[4].
This makes 'svn blame' give meaningful information now.

[1] http://www.cenqua.com/fisheye/?7Nf
[2] http://fisheye.rocklinux.org/
[3] http://www.clifford.at/spl/
[4] http://www.clifford.at/priv/fixauthor.spl.txt


ROCKDoc statistics

New Patches: 101
Applied Patches: 66
Discarded Patches: 12
Difference in open Patches: +23

Changes in ROCK 2.1: 71
Changes in ROCK 2.0: 2
Changes in ROCKDoc : 19

ROCKDoc statistics (according to wc(1)):
Characters: 148950
Words: 21896
Lines: 3077
Longest line: 709