• Dec
    29
    2006

    Subversion – Merging a Branch

    First try at merging a branch back into the trunk. A simple case because no changes were made to the trunk while working with the branch.
    In the branch working dir:
    svn log -v –stop-on-copy
    This reports the list of revisions since the branch was created. This range of revisions is used as an argument to [...]

  • Dec
    28
    2006

    Linksys, SuSE, Firefox 2.0, Athlon 64

    After switching from dhcpcd to dhclient, I was in a position to complete the conversion to SuSE 10.2 or revert to 10.0. I wanted to move forward for a number of reasons: newer php5 w/XML, newer Apache, better hardware support (power, ACPI, etc). Also the install was done such that the natural resolution [...]

  • Dec
    24
    2006

    dhcp Solution

    There is an incompatibility between dhcpcd and the dhcp servers in my Linksys BEFW11S4 original and v4 routers. Converting SuSEs 10.0 and 10.2 from dhcpcd to dhclient solves the problem.
    SuSE dhcpd Notes:

    SuSE supplies two clients: dhcpcd and dhclient. man 8 ifup is used to start the configuration and will call either client (via the [...]

  • Dec
    21
    2006

    dhcp Failure

    After a recent YOU update to SuSE 10.0, Linux became unable to reacquire a DHCP lease. When booting everything worked, but after the first lease expires, an infinite loop would occur:
    Dec 21 21:13:24 sr1650nx dhcpcd[11655]: DHCP_NAK server response
    Dec 21 21:13:24 sr1650nx dhcpcd[11655]: DHCP_NAK server response
    Dec 21 21:13:25 sr1650nx modify_resolvconf: restored /etc/resolv.conf.saved.by.dhcpcd.eth0 to /etc/resolv.conf
    Dec 21 [...]

  • Dec
    13
    2006

    Upload Manager (FTP Synchronization) for Linux

    I have been searching for an open source tool that will synchronize a remote FTP site with my local release directory for my web server code. FrontPage does this quite well under WindowsXP and I wanted a similar Linux capability.
    Nvu publishing capability is limited, with the documentation referring the reader to manual FTP programs. [...]

  • Dec
    11
    2006

    Convert Filesystem from reiserFS to ext3

    With the 10.2 release, openSUSE announced a switch from reiserFS to ext3 as their default filesystem format. The reason given was that development work on reiserFS-3 has come to a halt and SuSE was the only Linux distribution championing it. This gave me a twinge of regret as I had dwelled on this [...]

  • Dec
    09
    2006

    Desktop Resolution Havoc

     Yesterday I replaced my failing 1600×1200 monitor with a 2048 capable monitor.  I expected X11/KDE to continue with a 1600×1200 desktop, but noooo.  The new monitor was detected and the desktop was auto-magically reconfigured to 2048×1536.  Fonts and icons were also scaled automatically.  When I switched the resolution back to 1600×1200, icons and fonts became [...]

  • Dec
    08
    2006

    Subversion – Creating a Branch

    Created a branch in my main repository yesterday after running trials on a sample repository. Things snapped into focus after reading Key Concepts Behind Branches from the SVN book, which reinforces the point that Subversion is a versioned file system, and a branch conceptually is merely a copy.
    svn copy http://localhost/svn/ll/trunk http://localhost/svn/ll/branches/gui
    cd wkgDirectory
    svn switch [...]

 
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