Those that know whence the title came from (and why I chose): it’s going. Like, you know, 20 or so hours down, 50 years to go. UNG.
But that’s not the source of my lack of posts this last week. Mostly it’s been a case of not having anything monumental enough to share at any one time, but now I’ve a collection of little things that might actually add up. Guess this means I still don’t get how to blog or something.
Took comments off the real site this week. Figured no one was using, and who needs another potential spam magnet. Only after the fact did I find a post from a gentoo user. Mark, if you’re reading this, check your mail, you have your answer.
Module::Signature is here (woohoo, I know). Not that this is a big deal for us per se – we certify (at least I sign my little manifestos) the ebuilds, this is an upstream security measure. But I’ve started hearing from users who did what I said, namely used g-cpan (ah the follies of youth) or cpan to install modules. But lately they’d end up with a copy of Module::Signature installed as well, which would get invoked the next time they emerge’d a module in portage and attempt to verify the signature. Weirdness could ensue within chroot’s at that point. At least with a real ebuild, we have a means of tracking and adapting to problems rather than throwing our hands up at it.
I wish I had other news, really do. Spent most of the weekend trying to figure out why Crypt::RSA (a dep of Module::Signature) was failing, narrowed it down to Crypt::Random, to a call to /dev/urandom, thought I was seeing the /dev* problem I have with Authen::PAM all over again, only to figure out this morning that I just needed to upgrade Math::Pari….such is life. Meanwhile, Authen::PAM is still dead for me no matter where I turn (not quite true…I have one box that it works on. Don’t know why, no different setup wise other than kernel version I think).
Ah, before I forget – articles got moved around on my site, gentoo related articles are now under /gentoo-perl instead of /articles, and I’ve posted an article in /articles about using IMAP to keep different Kontact 1.1’s in sync between office and home, etc.