hawking's weblog 2008-06-30T22:43:18+03:00 hawking http://hawking.nonlogic.org http://hawking.nonlogic.org/ NanoBlogger Vote now! hawking http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2008/06/30/vote_now/ 2008-06-30T22:32:56+03:00 2008-06-30T22:32:56+03:00
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paludis-utils hawking http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2008/06/26/paludis-utils/ 2008-06-26T18:00:57+03:00 2008-06-26T18:00:57+03:00
paludis-utils is a paludis replacement for portage-utils. It uses paludis python bindings. Currently there are four applets available: 
alip@trippin> p
Usage: p <applet> <args>
Invoke a paludis-utils applet

Currently defined applets:
p <applet> <args>    : Virtual applet
patom [options] <pkgname>  : Split atom strings
pfile [options] <filename> : List packages owning files
plist [options] <pkgname>  : List contents of packages matching requirements
psize [options] <pkgname>  : Calculate size of installed packages
Contributions are welcome :-)]]>
when a nerd irc addict gets high... hawking http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2008/04/21/when_a_nerd_irc_addict_gets_high/ 2008-04-21T23:56:46+03:00 2008-04-21T23:56:46+03:00
17:15:38 [Users #gentoo-vim] 17:15:38 [@hawking] 17:15:38 -!- Irssi: #gentoo-vim: Total of 1 nicks \     [1 ops, 0 halfops, 0 voices, 0 normal] 17:16:05 -!- Channel #gentoo-vim created Mon Apr 21 17:15:34 2008 17:18:11 -!- Irssi: Join to #gentoo-vim was synced in 196 secs 20:05:41 <@hawking> I'm so lonely! 20:06:01 * hawking stabs hawking 23:40:40 <@hawking> hey there 23:40:57 <@hawking> what's up charlie? :) 23:41:01 <@hawking> you know you're high! 23:41:10 <@hawking> and it's hard to speak when you are :-] 23:41:27 <@hawking> set the controls for the heart of the sun! 23:41:58 <@hawking> oh sacrifice me to death for pink floyd! 23:42:04 <@hawking> aaaa aaaa 23:42:07 <@hawking> aaaa aaaa 23:42:12 <@hawking> set the controls for the heart of the sun... 23:42:46 <@hawking> it's also very hard to speak english, when you're \     ... erm .. high :) 23:42:54 <@hawking> so! 23:43:03 <@hawking> see emily play! 23:46:01 * hawking is listening to Pink Floyd - See Emily Play 23:46:40 <@hawking> arghh for a second I lost ncmpc :) couldn't find it \     for 3 minutes :-] 23:47:19 <@hawking> there's no other day 23:47:29 <@hawking> :) ( I can't speak so I decided to sing! ) 23:47:38 <@hawking> emily++ 23:48:55 <@hawking> emily ftw! 23:48:58 * hawking hugs emily 23:49:09 * hawking is listening to Pink Floyd - \     The Happiest Days Of Our Lives 23:49:21 <@hawking> ouch! not now! change it! 23:49:40 <@hawking> just a right song for the moment! 23:49:52 * hawking is listening to Pink Floyd - Learning To Fly 23:50:08 <@hawking> nice one indeed, quite relaxing.. lovely song! 23:50:45 <@hawking> I'm so relaxed, I can't type 23:51:12 * hawking grins 23:51:40 * hawking waves bye to channel 23:51:44 <@hawking> *shrug* ]]>
vim and lzma hawking http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2008/04/21/vim_and_lzma/ 2008-04-21T00:22:46+03:00 2008-04-21T00:22:46+03:00
augroup lzma au! au BufReadPre,FileReadPre *.lzma setlocal bin au BufReadPost,FileReadPost *.lzma call gzip#read("lzma -d") au BufWritePost,FileWritePost *.lzma call gzip#write("lzma") au FileAppendPre *.lzma call gzip#appre("lzma -d") au FileAppendPost *.lzma call gzip#write("lzma") augroup END " augroup lzma Note you need to have lzma-utils , not lzma, for this to work.]]>
Latest news from Gentoo/Python hawking http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2008/04/19/latest_news_from_gentoopython/ 2008-04-19T02:01:28+03:00 2008-04-19T02:01:28+03:00
  • Buffer overflow in zlib extension, CVE-2008-1721.
    Gentoo bug: 217221
    Upstream bug: 2586
    Upstream fix: r62235
    Fixed Gentoo/Python versions: 2.3.6-r5, 2.4.4-r10, 2.5.2-r1
  • PyString_FromStringAndSize() unsafe
    Upstream bug: 2587
    Upstream fix: r62262
    Fixed Gentoo/Python versions: 2.3.6-r5, 2.4.4-r10, 2.5.2-r1
  • distutils doesn't respect CXXFLAGS
    Gentoo bug: 145206
    Fixed Gentoo/Python versions: 2.4.4-r10, 2.5.2-r1
    Thanks to Mark Peloquin for the patch.
  • Thread unsafe file objects
    Upstream bugs: 595601, 815646
    Upstream fix: r62195
    Fixed Gentoo/Python versions: 2.5.2-r1
  • a bunch of infinite C recursions
    Upstream bug: 1202533
    Upstream fix: r58032
    Fixed Gentoo/Python versions: 2.5.2-r1

I've also added wininst USE flag fixing bug 198021 and converted nothreads and nocxx USE flags to threads and cxx adding USE defaults. The only issue left is internal build of libffi - bug 209673 - which should wait until some issues about libffi is clarified.

If you're using a python extension written in C++ like wxpython, reemerge it to make use of your CXXFLAGS.

This is all for now. Have a nice weekend :-)

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rest in peace, bride of peace hawking http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2008/04/18/rest_in_peace_bride_of_peace/ 2008-04-18T10:47:08+03:00 2008-04-18T10:47:08+03:00

Rest in peace, bride of peace, rest in peace... :'(]]>
viewing man pages with vim hawking http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2008/04/06/viewing_man_pages_with_vim/ 2008-04-06T12:29:17+03:00 2008-04-06T12:29:17+03:00
bug 212844 which was a problem about vimmanpager and colour codes. You'll have to reinstall vim to get the updated vimmanpager.

To use vimmanpager as your default man pager build vim with vim-pager USE flag and set the environment variable MANPAGER to vimmanpager.

For those who want to use the command :Man from within vim, here is a trick to get things right. Add the following lines to your vimrc: 
" make :Man command avaliable
source $VIMRUNTIME/ftplugin/man.vim
" Default MANPAGER vimmanpager doesn't play well
" with the :Man command and we don't want to see raw colour codes
" so we use sed to strip them.
let $MANPAGER = "sed -e 's:\\x1B\\[[[:digit:]\\+m::g'"

Happy vimming :-)]]>
back hawking http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2008/04/04/back/ 2008-04-04T12:37:00+03:00 2008-04-04T12:37:00+03:00
dissociative identity disorder. Currently I'm using olanzapine to keep myself in reality and sertraline to have a good mood. I stopped school until september. I'll spend this time doing my usual gentoo work and reading some books which I couldn't read due to lack of time.

I'm slowly recovering and started to commit fixes to our CVS. I'm taking things slow though. Fortunately dev-zero is back and lordvan requested to take care of twisted packages.

I've updated my blog and added haloscan comment support and buttons to ease submitting to digg, del.icio.us, furl, reddit, slashdot and stumble upon.

This post is meant as an explanation for my slacking in the last months :).]]>
python developers guide 2 hawking http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2007/07/11/python_developers_guide_2/ 2007-07-11T05:07:47+03:00 2007-07-11T05:07:47+03:00

Thanks nightmorph for correcting my crappy grammar and guide-xml ;)]]>
python developers guide hawking http://hawking.nonlogic.org/archives/2007/06/30/python_developers_guide/ 2007-06-30T21:10:29+03:00 2007-06-30T21:10:29+03:00
Gentoo Python Developers Guide is rather superficial thus I decided to improve it which can be helpful for everyone writing ebuilds for python packages. The initial version is here. It's far from perfect now but well it's a start :).]]>