gmcdonald

Occasionally one has to share scripts and such that for convenience Windows users for their part would run in a Cygwin bash prompt, whilst others enjoy the nativeness of Linux etc. One issue is the use of variables to set program names up for use within those scripts. Windows + Cygwin users have no doubt at some point been a victim of spaces in file paths causing the executable files to not be found.

For example anything in 'Program Files' can not be found even from within Cygwin. Lets take something with two such spaces in its path as it will be handy in our examples later on.

Windows: C:\Program Files\CollabNet\Subversion Client\svn.exe
Cygwin: /cygdrive/c/Program Files/CollabNet/Subversion Client/svn

in Cygwin 'which svn' will find the full Cygwin Path as shown above, however, the program using such will only see

/cygdrive/c/Program

and nothing else. So this is a problem not only for our installed subversion client, but also any other that are normally installed in 'Program Files'

There are a few workarounds, including hard coding paths instead of using shelled commands to get the paths, this however deviates the shared scripts from what everyone else may be using quite happily.

The fix is , as usual, easy when you know how, and today I bothered to read docs and test a few things out, the solution I found best is the use of mount points.

There may be other users on the same computer using Cygwin also (not in my case but I did it this way anyway) so its always best to use a custom user oriented /etc/fstab.d/$username file.

here is my /etc/fstab.d/gmcdonald file:

C:/Program\040Files /programs ext3 binary 0 0
C:/Program\040Files/CollabNet/Subversion\040Client /programs/subversion ext3 binary 0 0

And that folks is all you need to do! Save that file (which you may need to create), from then on all your Program Files will be mapped to a path that cygwin can understand - /programs and /programs/subversion etc ..

using 'which svn' will correctly report /programs/subversion/svn and so your scripts will be able to find it too without issue.

FYI docs here: http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/using.html#mount-table

 Enjoy

Hi All,

Just a friendly (and final)  reminder that applications for financial help to attend ApacheCon NA 2011 in Vancouver close this coming Friday 8th July (2200 BST : UTC+1)

Financial assistance is available for Travel (planes, trains, whatever) , Accomodation (at the conference venue hotel) and Conference entrance fees. Dependant on your circumstances will decide how much of that you would be given.

Please visit http://apache.org/travel for more information and a link to the application form.

Remember: We DO help people get to ApacheCon and other Apache events every year, we DO want to help people get there who otherwise could not, that is why we exist.

Spread the word, you are welcome to tweet, blog, email, post, phone or smoke signal to anyone who you think might benefit from attending ApacheCon this year.

Kind Regards,

The Travel Assistance Committee.

The Apache Software Foundation (ASF)'s Travel Assistance Committee (TAC) is now accepting applications for ApacheCon North America 2011, 7-11 November in Vancouver BC, Canada.

The TAC is seeking individuals from the Apache community at-large –-users, developers, educators, students, Committers, and Members-– who would like to attend ApacheCon, but need some financial support in order to be able to get there. There are limited places available, and all applicants will be scored on their individual merit.

Financial assistance is available to cover flights/trains, accommodation and entrance fees either in part or in full, depending on circumstances. However, the support available for those attending only the BarCamp (7-8 November) is less than that for those attending the entire event (Conference + BarCamp 7-11 November). The Travel Assistance Committee aims to support all official ASF events, including cross-project activities; as such, it may be prudent for those in Asia and Europe to wait for an event geographically closer to them.

More information can be found at http://www.apache.org/travel/index.html  including a link to the online application and detailed instructions for submitting.

Applications will close on 8 July 2011 at 22:00 BST (UTC/GMT +1).

Someone asked how to send emails to different addresses depending on the Builder, the use of Categories is your friend:

b1 = {'name': "test-report",
      'slavename': "slave1",
      'builddir': "test-trunk",
      'factory': f1,
      'category': "builder1",
      }

c['builders'].append(b1)

b2 = {'name': "test-report2",
      'slavename': "slave1",
      'builddir': "test-trunk2",
      'factory': f2,
      'category': "builder2",
      }

c['builders'].append(b2)

b3 = {'name': "test-report3",
      'slavename': "slave2",
      'builddir': "test-trunk3",
      'factory': f3,
      'category': "builder3",
      }

c['builders'].append(b3)

#mail status

c['status'].append(mail.MailNotifier(fromaddr="buildbot@test.org",
                                     extraRecipients=["notifications@test.org"],
                                     sendToInterestedUsers=False,
                                     mode="change",
                                     categories=["builder1" , "builder2"]))

c['status'].append(mail.MailNotifier(fromaddr="buildbot@test.org",
                                     extraRecipients=["dev-list@testanother.org"],
                                     sendToInterestedUsers=False,
                                     mode="change",
                                     categories=["builder3"]))

So finally got around to upgrading the ASF Buildbot Master (on aegis an Ubuntu machine) yesterday. After the usual backup preparations this is what was needed:

1. Install New/Updated prereqs for 0.8.x (and for going straight to mysql db configuration, not default sqlite):

  $ apt-get install python-mysqldb python-jinja2 mysql-server

2. edit /etc/my.cnf and add these entries:

  [mysqld]

max_allowed_packet      = 32M
transaction_isolation   = READ-COMMITTED
default-storage-engine  = InnoDB
default-character-set   = utf8
default-collation       = utf8_general_ci
character-set-client    = utf8

  [mysql]

default-character-set   = utf8

3. $ sudo service mysql restart

4. Create the database:

$ mysql -u root -p
  mysql> CREATE DATABASE buildbot CHARACTER SET utf8 COLLATE utf8_general_ci;
  mysql> GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON buildbot.* TO 'bbuser'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '<password>';
  mysql> flush privileges;
  mysql> exit;

5. Download and extract/install the latest buildbot:

$ wget http://buildbot.googlecode.com/files/buildbot-0.8.3p1.tar.gz
$ tar xfvz buildbot-0.8.3p1.tar.gz
$ cd buildbot-0.8.3p1
$ python setup.py build
$ sudo python setup.py install
$ buildbot -version
  Buildbot version: 0.8.3p1
  Twisted version: 10.0.0

6. Edit your current master.cfg (for those NOT going to mysql, ignore this step)

  $ + c['db_url'] = 'mysql://bbuser:<password>@localhost/buildbot'

7. Upgrade!

  $ buildbot upgrade-master --db='mysql://bbuser:<password>@localhost/buildbot' /path/to/masterdir

8. If all went well, start your master

  $ cd /path/to/masterdir
  $ buildbot start . > start.log

Enjoy your new mysql enabled 0.8.3+ master.

For a default sqlite enabled master replace both mysql entries above (steps 6 and 7) with:

$ + c['db_url'] = "sqlite:///state.sqlite"

and

$ buildbot upgrade-master --db='sqlite:///state.sqlite' /path/to/masterdir 

So after upgrading my Windows box to Windows 7 and IE8 I lost the ability to use the remote console in my DRAC 5.

The DRAC is connected to a Dell R300 server, not that I need to use it much but recently my datacenter forced new IP addresses on me so I needed access to the remote console

Hi All,

There is only ONE WEEK to go before we stop accepting applications for financial assistance.

The Travel Assistance Committee is now taking in applications for those wanting to attend ApacheCon North America (NA) 2010, which is taking place between the 1st and 5th November in Atlanta.

The Travel Assistance Committee is looking for people who would like to be able to attend ApacheCon, but who need some financial support in order to be able to get there. There are limited places available, and all applications will be scored on their individual merit.

Financial assistance is available to cover travel, accommodation and entrance to the event, either in part or in full, depending on circumstances. However, the support available for those attending only the barcamp is smaller than that for people attending the whole event. The Travel Assistance Committee aims to support all ApacheCons, and cross-project events, and so it may be prudent for those in Asia and the EU to wait for an event closer to them.

More information can be found on the main Apache website at http://www.apache.org/travel/index.html - where you will also find a link to the online application and details for submitting.

Applications for applying for travel assistance are now being accepted, and will close on the 7th July 2010.

Good luck to all those that will apply.

You are welcome to tweet, blog as appropriate.

If you are upgrading to Ubuntu 10.4 from 8.x or 9.x note that the Sun Java

(sun-java6-*) has been removed from the multiverse repository in favour of using the preferred OpenJDK.

So when you upgrade, the sun version gets removed, but no replacement is added. So you'll need to either install OpenJDK and/or if you need the Sun JDK for development, here's how to get it back:

1. - sudo apt-get install python-software-properties

2. - sudo add-apt-repository "deb http://archive.canonical.com/ lucid partner"

3. - sudo apt-get update

4. - sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

Enjoy

I’ve only been using it for a day really, and this post is more a test of my WLW setup, but first impressions of the Dell Vostro and Window 7 are pretty good.

What I’m looking forward to more is actually wiping my old Dell Inspiron 6000 and putting either Ubuntu or FreeBSD on it, undecided which.

(The keyboard on this Vostro is a little springy, better get used to that.)

For those of you in Australia, you'll know what I mean right away, for others the title might make you think of other things.

 A company hires out camper vans called 'Wicked Campers' - they usually have funny sayings written on the back (hand painted usually) along with hand painted drawings on  the rest of the van , a great way to save money on their fleet of cheap hire vehicles which are usually aimed at the backpacker type of customer.

Anyway, the point of this post, I think the best saying on the back of a van I've seen for a while :

'Nice Legs - what time do they open'

Was that worth my 2nd blog post in the same day, your call!

A summary of just some of the things the ASF Buildbot can do for your project:

• Perform per commit build & test runs for your project
• Not just svn! - Buildbot can pull in from your Git/Mercurial branches too!
• Build and Deploy your website to a staging area for review
• Build and Deploy your website to mino (people) for syncing live
• Automatically Build and Deploy Snapshots to Nexus staging area.
• Create Nightly and historical zipped/tarred snapshot builds for download
• Builds can be triggered manually from within your own freenode #IRC Channel
• An IRCBot can report on success/failures of a build instantly
• Build Success/Failures can go to your dev/notification mailing list
• Perform multiple builds of an svn/git commit on multiple platforms asyncronously
• ASF Buildbot uses the latest RAT build to check for license header issues for all your files.
• RAT Reports are published live instantly to ci.apache.org/$project/rat-report.[txt|html]
• As indicated above, plain text or html versions of RAT reports are published.
• [Coming Soon] - RAT Reports sent to your dev list, only new failures will be listed.
• [Coming Soon] - Email a patch with inserted ASL 2.0 Headers into your failed files!!
• Currently Buildbot has Ubuntu 8.04, 9.04 and Windows Server 2008 Slaves
• [Coming Soon] - ASF Buildbot will soon have Solaris, FreeBSD 8 and Windows 7 Slaves

Dont see a feature that you need? Join the builds.at.apache.org mailing list and request it now, or file a Jira Ticket.

Help is always on hand on the builds.at.apache.org mailing list for any problems or build configuration issues/requests. Or try the #asftest channel on irc.freenode.net for live support.

So now you want your project to use Buildbot? No problem, best way is to file a Jira Ticket. and count to 10 (well maybe a bit longer but it wont be long before you are up and running).

For those of you wanting to attend the 10th Anniversary of ApacheCon coming up in Oakland this 2nd – 6th November 2009.

Applications will be open for those wanting financial assistance to attend ApacheCon US 2009 between 27th July 2009 and 17th August 2009.

Anyone who is involved in Open Source as a developer/committer are welcome to apply.

For more details and how to apply see http://www.apache.org/travel/index.html. Other sites to note are the http://tac-apply.apache.org online application area and http://cwiki.apache.org/TAC/ – the Travel Assistance Wiki.

Spread the word!

As the title indicates, themes made for Roller 4 work fine in Roller 5 (currently) and the method of applying them is the same for both versions.

To get started, there are individual themes or a bundled all in one archive of all themes at RollerWeblogger on java.net so download whichever ones you want.

Then extract them into your $CATALINA_HOME/webapps/roller/themes directory. (where $CATALINA_HOME is the root directory of your Tomcat installation)
        Redeploy roller or restart tomcat and all the themes should now be available for selection in the admin/themes area of your blog. Note that ‘allow custom themes’ should be enabled in the global admin area for individual blogs to be able to choose a new theme.

This upgrade advice is unofficial in a number of ways.

• 5.0-dev itself is Unofficial
• I’m no Roller expert and not involved with the project what-so-ever
• I’m not responsible if you break it or lose any information
• Use at your own risk and don’t come crying to me

I assuming you have Roller 4.0.1 installed running under Tomcat 6.

1. Backup your roller database – $ mysqldump -uroot -p rollerdb > rollerdb.dump
2. Enter password when promted
3. Backup your roller directories
4. Double Triple Check you backup up ok!!
5. Download and extract Roller 5.0-dev somewhere
6. Edit roller-custom.properties and change from manual to auto
7. open tomcat manager in web browser and Undeploy current /roller
8. create a new webcontext /roller5 and point it to new Roller 5 /webapp/roller directory
9. Deploy new /roller5 webapp
10. navigate to yoursite.com/roller5
11. roller wlll ask confirmation to upgrade database table, click yes.
12. Edit roller-custom.properties and change to auto.
13. Job done if all went well.

Right after the upgrade you may hit the 500 error (planet not bootstrapped) if you previously had aggregation turned on for your front page. Go into your Global Admin area and disable it. The  your blog front page should show up. If you need aggregation on your blogs into the front page you’ll need to follow the install guide section 9.1.

IF things did not go well and you want to roll back.

1. Swear like a trooper
2. Open tomcat manager and undeploy your new /roller5
3. Restore database with – $ mysql –uroot –p rollerdb < rollerdb.dump
4. in tomcat manager recreate your original webcontext /roller and point to your old Roller 4.0.1 /webapp/roller directory
5. in your web browser go to yoursite.com/roller and breath a sigh of relief

All of the above, both the upgrade and the restore in neccessary should first be performed in a test environment.
At any step anywhere above you may need to restart tomcat for a change to take effect. (hit & miss with me whether it needed to or not)

The Official documentation for upgrading Roller is in the v4.0.1 Installation Guide (Section 9.4 for manual table upgrade, Section 10.2 for auto upgrade)

Anyway hope it was of some use.