• init apt-get,
• convert all packages lists + status in a cudf description,
• pass this cudf to an external solver,
• get the result and set all packages to add/remove in the apt.cache of python-apt
• download the packages
• commit the changes (effectively, run dpkg)

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"Where is it then?"
"Out there somewhere.", he said gesturing vaguely at the window.
"Beyond the Hudson? But there's nothing but wasteland out there."

More screenshots of htop at screenshot.debian.net and at the project s site at SourceForge. It can do many things, top can t do:

• Different color themes including fore- and background (includes also a monochrome theme for people considering ANSI colors being eye cancer :-)
• Highlighting the current user s processes.
• Scrolling up, down and sidewards.
• Interactively selecting processes with cursor keys as well as with the mouse.
• Kill or renice the selected process without having to enter its pid
• Show the CPU usage for each core and a CPU usage summary at the same time.
• Show CPU, memory and swap usage as textual bars, either encoded in colors or characters.
• Easy interactive configuring while running.
• Automatically saves the current state (sort order, color scheme, etc.)
• Easy access to the most often used functions through F-keys like in Midnight Commander.

    apt-get build-dep kfreebsd-8
    apt-get source kfreebsd-8
    cd kfreebsd-8-8.1
    cat >> debian/arch/amd64/amd64.config << EOF
    # Add pflog, pfsync, ALTQ and CARP support
    # ----------------------------------------
    # http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/firewalls-pf.html
    device      pf
    device      pflog
    device      pfsync
    options         ALTQ
    options         ALTQ_CBQ        # Class Bases Queuing (CBQ)
    options         ALTQ_RED        # Random Early Detection (RED)
    options         ALTQ_RIO        # RED In/Out
    options         ALTQ_HFSC       # Hierarchical Packet Scheduler (HFSC)
    options         ALTQ_PRIQ       # Priority Queuing (PRIQ)
    options         ALTQ_NOPCC      # Required for SMP build
    # http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/carp.html
    device      carp
    EOF
    vi debian/changelog 
    dpkg-buildpackage -B -uc

• freebsd-utils: I have included pflogd and ftp-proxy on the package and have added some options to allow the use of additional interface types with ifconfig (carp, pfsync, lagg, bridges, ...). There were a lot of changes needed:
  1. The pflogd and ftp-proxy Makefiles are missing from the original tarball, I modified the get-orig-source of the debian/rules, but I build my packages against the original tarball, with the extra files included directly on the package .diff.gz.
  2. The pflogd daemon needs a _pflogd user and group and a /var/run/_pflogd directory, so I've added the directory and the creation of the user and group to the package post-install.
  3. The ftp-proxy daemon uses the proxy user when dropping privileges and I've modified the code to make it use the /var/run/ftp-proxy directory for the chroot.
  4. Some C header files that are not available on -dev packages were missing and I put them on the packages' debian directory. I've created a debian/include directory and moved there the original debian/net directory and added the headers debian/include/net/if_bridgevar.h and debian/include/net/if_lagg.h to add bridging support to ifconfig and the debian/include/pcap-config.h and debian/include/pcap-int.h libpcap private headers to be able to compile the pflogd binary.
  As I'm not familiar with the way people changes code for kFreeBSD some of the patches are a little bit dirty, but at least things work; besides, probably I should also have had to include init.d scripts for pf, pflogd and ftp-proxy, but I have not done it at the package level yet, as what I got was enough to work with the tools. The debdiff against the freebsd-utils-8.1-2 source package is available here or here.
• libpcap: A test had to be removed in order to be able to support pflog on the library; the debdiff against the libpcap-1.1.1-2 package is available here or here.
• tcpdump: The package also had to be modified to include the code to print the pflogd entries on the pcap file; the debdiff against tcpdump_4.1.1-1 is available here or here.

The final calendar of the event is:

• July 17, 2011: Setup day (only for people doing initial setup)
• July 18-23, 2011: DebCamp, the yearly developer work sessions.
• July 23, 2011: Arrival Day for DebConf11
• July 24-30, 2011: DebConf11
• July 31, 2011: Departure/cleanup day

The call for papers and registration dates are still to be decided.

More information at the DebConf 11 website.

As part of the Training Sessions initiative organized by the Debian Women project, this week a lesson about Python packaging will be held. The lesson, which is aimed at an intermediate audience, will focus specifically modules and applications packaging and will be held by Piotr O arowski who is member of Python Applications Packaging Team and Debian Python Modules Team.

The session will take place, as usual, on #debian-women channel on irc.debian.org on Thursday, 2nd December at 20:00 UTC.

Cause of the advanced topic is madatory to have some knowledge about Debian packaging (see, for example Lars Wirzenius tutorial) and about general Python development.

The lesson will consists of a first, theoretical, part in wich Piotr will explain us some basics; and of a Q&A part, entirely dedicated to more advanced problems.

See you on Thursday!

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