mod_perl and friends
Posted by mcummings
That's right, your portage deceives you not, mod_perl-2 is up and about and available and all that jazz, along with friends libapreq2 and HTML-Mason. Just a little late festivus present from a dev too tired to avoid them any longer.
Spent a good deal of yesterday afternoon working with the reporter of bug 116649, currently on my bizarro bug list. Here's the scoop: the user, who builds his boxes from stage1, gets the weird problem while building perl that causes it to pause and ask questions when it really, really shouldn't be. I could duplicate a symptom of this bug if I enabled acl's on a partition (noteworthy in itself), though he says he's had the problem since before switching to lvm2 and acl's. It's just...perplexing...its as if when the Configure scripts breaks out to run some execs it isn't itself anymore...'cept that this happens even when we had him manually unpack and build perl, so it isn't even some zany portage option interfering (like userpriv)...just...weird...comments, guffaws, and general pointers welcome. We've had him file it upstream in case they have any ideas (since it happens even sans portage) but i'm at a loss here.
I’m getting a sonic screwdriver on my birthday!!
Posted by mcummings
That's right, scifi channel is getting me a birthday present this year. Appears that they are going to be carrying the current incarnation of Dr.Who, premier episode on my birthday. How sweet is that?!?
cool gentoo moment for me today
Posted by mcummings
bad week all around, but today i took a minute to see if i could get a radio stream from dc101 working at the office despite firewalls...and their player faq's first link is for linux help...and the first link in there was for gentoo specific help...how sweet was that? and to boot, it worked 
one other fast thought: any objections to this? kthnxbye
for arch in `cat profiles/arch.list`; do for file in $(find dev-perl -name "*.ebuild"); do sed -i -e "s/\~$arch/$arch/"" $file; cvs commit; done ; done
Brief update
Posted by mcummings
Bunch of tiny little updates...perl ebuilds were updated today for the dragonfly and freebsd porters...perl-cleaner has been updated in the tree, so lib64 users shouldn't have any more problems (at least not for that;) and a new function rebuilding the virtuals has been added to help overcome a hypothetical situation I came up with in my tired brain...bunch of bugs got closed or commented on, which was a pleasant change.
Oh yeah - if your using HTML-Mason 1.32, drop me a line if you've had any issues with it. I know it's only been in the tree for 30+ days, not nearly the full 60 or 90 that i'd like it to be, but its been so long since we've moved an HTML-Mason to stable that i'd rather like to for a change. I think unless anyone pops up with a "this is still broken in it" then I'm going to go ahead and unmask it.
Um...I'm sure there was something else...cleaned up XML-SAX vs XML-SAX-Base this morning...what else...looked at a messy problem with graphviz which I think is a combination problem of SWIG and the new SV sanity in perl (and graphviz's lack of honoring that correctly). Um...yeah...ok, that's what's in my brain as I head to bed, sure I missed something really really cool like the part where I dropped 15gigs off my 99% drive or discovered how to write pseudo-sentient code...
They’re Back
Posted by mcummings
I can't believe that this has happened. Again. For like the third or fourth time. But our friendly neighborhood squirrels have decided to rejoin us, principally through a burrowed hole in our roof.
When we moved into the house, we got new gutters put on, and in the process a hole was found on our lower roof in one corner. We had it patched (perhaps not as well as we should have, but we were ignorant). For a long time after that we heard squirrels, but we thought they were in the gutters, not realizing that they were the source of that hole.
I fought them, eventually (in year two or three) with a potent natural phermone secreted by foxes. While they were gone (I thought) we had the hole in the side patched.
Then they came back again. So we had them trapped, and had the sophet they had come through patched (still patched btw). But we never checked that original hole, because we never quite made the connection.
Well, the last few weeks we've started hearing some unusual sounds, climaxing today with what my wife has described as a lot of moving and scratching (but no chewing, which I at least think is key). And I've confirmed, back in the spot that we first had patched and hadn't looked at since long before the trapping, there is a nice 4 inch round hole going straight into the roof at the corner.
I've called the pest folks, they'll be out monday to lay some traps, but now we're in a quandry. Do we try and get the hole patched again, this time in conjunction with the trapping, so we feel yet more confident that we've solved the problem? Or do we need to bow down to the debt gods even more than we can afford to and have the roof (and really, at that point, the siding) replaced completely, instead of repeatedly patching the same hole?
I'm putting this here mostly to get this out of my head and off my back, but man, home ownership really sucks in some ways. Sure, there's the glory of the "It's MINE" factor, the freedoms, but there's also the faucets that really, really need to be replaced soon, the toilet that needs a good major repair kit applied to it, the roof, etc., bah!!!
I'm also coming to the conclusion that it doesn't matter how much money you make, money is always an issue (unless of course you have millions, in which case you probably didn't get it by working 9-5, but by some other growth means like investments or lotteries). I make a good 10 to 15K more now than I did the day we moved into this house - but with each bump in pay, something else has come up in our lives to sap it away.
And this, kids, is what they refer to as real life, I know. But just in case, if anyone out there has a spare half mil USD that they just want to drop on someone for a good tax write off, here I am, email me or msg me and I'll get you all the information you need to write a check. kthxbye.