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4 May 2010

Kartik Mistry: lazy hosting for me

* After realize that I can book domain name with payment using Internet banking, I booked one. However, that hosting provider has crap schemes and I want: a. Debian
b. Shell access
c. Payment using Internet banking from India (sorry I has no Credit Card or intend to have one nearly). Lazy lazy web anyone? Size doesn t matter. I want ikiwiki and some static pages for random use.

Erich Schubert: Facebook tracking users via "like" function.

Facebook recently launched the "Like" function, which basically can be embedded into arbitrary web sites. Naively, it does two things:
  1. Provide a "Like" button for sharing the web site
  2. Show you how many other users like the web site
Sounds good, doesn't it?But now reconsider: even when you don't use the "Like" function, facebook is in fact notified of which web sites you visit!.Encouraging you to "share" content with friends is the hanger for this function. This is what makes web masters install it on their sites: they expect to get some extra traffic from your friends, so they just add it.But whether you like it or not, it basically allows Facebook to track your complete web viewing habits. And it's the target web site that opts in, not the user! Combined with all the personal information Facebook already has on you, this is a major privacy concern. Combining this information might even be illegal in some countries (but probably not in the US where Facebook lives, privacy unfortunately has a low role here).The best workaround currently is to blacklist Facebooks "Like" function using some kind of AdBlock, for example using this element filter: 
IFRAME[src^="http://www.facebook.com/plugins/like.php"]
But in general, we should try to make this kind of data aggregation illegal without explicit consent and force Facebook to make this an opt-in feature. Political work needed here ...P.S.: Make sure to check if your AdBlock actually blocks and not just hides. As far as I can tell, WebKit Adblock, including Chromes, only hide ads. Firefoxs AdblockPlus seems to be more powerful.P.P.S.: yes I've read the claim that Facebook doesn't track. No wait, all they basically said was that they are not going to announce at F8 they will be selling web surfing behaviour based ads to their customers. They actually did NOT state (or guarantee) they will NOT use data mining on this data. Just that you probably will not be able to buy eyeballs based on rules such as "has visited/liked disney.com" ...P.P.P.S.: I've been told that facebook.com/widgets/like.php also needs to be blocked, since some sites use this URI scheme. And of course, Privoxy and similar privacy-increasing proxies are a useful addition, too.

Chris Lamb: Rotating email into your inbox using imapfilter

I'm not a fan of "life hacks", but I have the adopted the following automated processing of my email inbox: if I don't want to deal with a message today, I move it to (eg.) Mail.DELAYED.4 and it will reappear in my inbox automatically in 4 days. It is inspired by the Inbox Zero, tickler files and the Debian DELAYED queue. My implementation uses imapfilter. You'll need to tweak the move_messages syntax for lenny's version; the following works fine in squeeze and sid: 
mbox = IMAP  
    server = 'mail.server.net',
    username = 'username',
    password = 'password',
    ssl = 'ssl3'
 
num = 14
dst = 'INBOX'
prefix = 'Mail.DELAYED.'
for x = num, 1, -1 do
    mbox[prefix .. x]:select_all():move_messages(
        mbox[x == 1 and dst or prefix .. (x - 1)]
    )
end
The messages are moved when I'm (hopefully) asleep: 
# m h dom mon dow command
  0 6 *   *   *   imapfilter -c /path/to/delayed.lua >/dev/null

Wouter Verhelst: On clue and opinions

How does one define one's "national identity"? One way is to look at where a person is born. By that definion, I could be called Flemish, Belgian, or European, whatever you think about it. Another way to look at it is how one feels about one's own identity. This, of course, is a much more accurate way to describe a person; and by that definition, I am either Belgian or European. I do not feel any affinity with much of the so-called "flemish" identity, nor do I wish to be associated with it any more than is strictly necessary. Obviously, some people feel different about that for themselves. This I can understand. In fact, the statement to feel more Belgian than Flemish is probably not one that is very common in this general area. I am not stupid; I know that Belgium is not a Nation (it is a state, but that is a different matter). I just do not feel a lot of warm fuzzy feelings about Flanders. Naturally, other people have other feelings about that. This, too, I can understand. The logical result of the above is that my personal opinions about the somewhat convoluted politics in this country are not shared by many; that when I state my opinion, I may expect opposition, or at the very least someone stating why they disagree with me. This, of course, I can also understand. But what I cannot understand is that every time I state my opinion, someone must come out and insult my intelligence by telling me I "do not have a clue". Please do not mistake my disagreement for misunderstanding. Martijn asks me to "check the facts". Let's do that, shall we?
  1. There's been a judgement by the constitutional court that the current situation regarding which party may run for election in the BHV region is unconstitutional.
  2. One group of politicians wishes to resolve this issue by splitting the BHV region in two. That would certainly solve the issue.
  3. Another group of politicians dislikes this solution. They may be willing to go along, but they want other concessions before they will do so. This is what I referred to when I said that there were "a huge heap of all kinds of side issues" in my previous post.
  4. The first group does not wish to make such concessions. Some of their numbers have even stated in the press that there is no need to make them, because, given the first point, there's only one solution and that is to split.
That last point is, of course, complete and utter bullshit. It would hold merit if there was only one way to solve a constitutional crisis; but by definition, there are always at least two ways: one is to change the law to comply with the constitution, the other is to change the constitution to make the law no longer be unconstitutional. So a group that feels strongly about one of these two possible solutions should be prepared to negotiate with the other group so as to hammer out an agreement that benefits both parties. In some cases, this will mean doing things that they do not completely like; but if they're not willing to do that, at all, they have no business being politicians. For the longest time during the early negotiations, however, both parties have stubbornly refused to even acknowledge the other position, let alone talk about it. Now, for clarity, I'm not advocating that the latter of the two options in that previous paragraph is what should happen. Frankly, I don't even care what happens, so long as they manage to resolve the issue at hand in some way. What I do care about, however, is that this country has been in a near-constant state of stalemate over these past few years for an issue that only matters to politicians; I don't care who or what a group of people in a (to me) obscure part of the country can vote for. This country needs a stable government which can act on things that actually matter. Like, say, the international economic crisis of the past two years; I think it matters much more whether the man in the street has a job than whether John Q. Politician will past these next elections.

MJ Ray: Day Against DRM, 4 May 2010

Today is the Day Against DRM, working against Digital Restrictions Management or Technological Protection Measures (TPM). I ve two tips to help with our public disservice British Broadcasting Corporation which has consistently failed to act in the public interest and reject DRM:
  1. If you want to link to a BBC radio show like Global Business, you can often get mp3 and avoid Flash-forcing DRM-wannabe iPlayer (and cool toys like get_iplayer) by using BBC Mobile s Podcasts Index.
  2. Satellite TV broadcasts can be captured as MP2 by MythTV or even 50-quid black box home entertainment devices. The DRM-free file can be played back on a computer with mplayer -demuxer +mpegts filename.dvr or re-encoded for other devices with mencoder.
What DRM-avoiding tips would you give?

Alastair McKinstry: EGU 2010 - Monday

I'm at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, 2010, the biggest gethering of European geoscientists, in Vienna, May 2-7. This is my first time here and its huge: over 9000 participants. Merely finding the talks and posters is a challenge (they supply a USB stick with the abstracts and agendas as they can't print them all! The first day I spent mostly at the exoplanet stream (and putting up my own poster). Some neat stuff on show: summaries by Borucki on Keplers findings (on the Hot Jupiters they found :" these things glow like a blast furnace; forget life"). He points out that when they look for Earth sized planets, radial velocity confirmation would take 1000s of hours on 10M telescopes - so it won't happen. hmm. Steve Unwin on SIM: neat astrometric mission for planet hunting and galaxy measurement. A targeted mission list, unlike the Gaia survey; to fly in 2016 if the Decadal survey says yes. 20% of time available under the general observer program, so get proposals ready ? Nestest poster idea: Anomalous night-time temps on Mars, Gonzales et al.. Finding hot spots on Arsia Mons, a volcano. Explained by air rising from 100km long lava tubes. We've seen pit entrances to caves on Mars with HiRISE, etc. here they model heat output from a pit entrace/exit and imply 100km caves. Oh to go exploring... Tinetti points out that we lack proper spectra, both experimental and theoretical, for high temperature and pressure gases such as methane, etc. Hmm, I know a group in Galway that might be able to help ... Helmut Lammer raised an interesting point at the poster session, that many groups ignore the stellar wind when looking at H2 atmospheres around exoplanets. Theis grossly inflates the apparent H2 atmosphere. Without taking this into acount it would be easy to mistake H2 detections with a Neptune-like atmosphere. He points to a 1.7M UV telescope that the Russians are planning to launch that would help do UV measurements when Hubble is gone. Lena Noack gave a talk on convection in tidally-locked planets (with related poster Low-lid formation on Super-Earths and implications for the habitability of Super-Earths and Sub-Earths). They argue that no covection can be expected in the mantle, and hence no geodynamo or magnetosphere. This could be a problem for holding an atmosphere. Time to check for planetary magnetic fields. Break out the polarimeter ? Oh, and it seems that That Damned Volcano is closing Irish airspace on Tuesday. Might be an idea to go to the meeting about it. Hope it clears by Friday ... Tags ,

Alastair McKinstry: EGU 2010 - Monday

I'm at the European Geosciences Union (EGU) General Assembly, 2010, the biggest gethering of European geoscientists, in Vienna, May 2-7. This is my first time here and its huge: over 9000 participants. Merely finding the talks and posters is a challenge (they supply a USB stick with the abstracts and agendas as they can't print them all! The first day I spent mostly at the exoplanet stream (and putting up my own poster). Some neat stuff on show: summaries by Borucki on Keplers findings (on the Hot Jupiters they found :" these things glow like a blast furnace; forget life"). He points out that when they look for Earth sized planets, radial velocity confirmation would take 1000s of hours on 10M telescopes - so it won't happen. hmm. Steve Unwin on SIM: neat astrometric mission for planet hunting and galaxy measurement. A targeted mission list, unlike the Gaia survey; to fly in 2016 if the Decadal survey says yes. 20% of time available under the general observer program, so get proposals ready ? Nestest poster idea: Anomalous night-time temps on Mars, Gonzales et al.. Finding hot spots on Arsia Mons, a volcano. Explained by air rising from 100km long lava tubes. We've seen pit entrances to caves on Mars with HiRISE, etc. here they model heat output from a pit entrace/exit and imply 100km caves. Oh to go exploring... Tinetti points out that we lack proper spectra, both experimental and theoretical, for high temperature and pressure gases such as methane, etc. Hmm, I know a group in Galway that might be able to help ... Helmut Lammer raised an interesting point at the poster session, that many groups ignore the stellar wind when looking at H2 atmospheres around exoplanets. Theis grossly inflates the apparent H2 atmosphere. Without taking this into acount it would be easy to mistake H2 detections with a Neptune-like atmosphere. He points to a 1.7M UV telescope that the Russians are planning to launch that would help do UV measurements when Hubble is gone. Lena Noack gave a talk on convection in tidally-locked planets (with related poster Low-lid formation on Super-Earths and implications for the habitability of Super-Earths and Sub-Earths). They argue that no covection can be expected in the mantle, and hence no geodynamo or magnetosphere. This could be a problem for holding an atmosphere. Time to check for planetary magnetic fields. Break out the polarimeter ? Oh, and it seems that That Damned Volcano is closing Irish airspace on Tuesday. Might be an idea to go to the meeting about it. Hope it clears by Friday ... Tags ,

Raphael Geissert: Debconf10 needs your help!

We are getting closer and closer to this year's Debconf. Debconf is a very important event for the Debian project, where developers, all sorts of contributors, and interested people can meet in person to learn and work together.

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Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva: Google Summer of Code

It s kind of late now to talk about this, but I was accepted as a Student in the Google Summer of Code student. My project is about making the binaries produced by GHC faster by improving its Garbage Collector algorithm. I ll implement the techniques described in the Immix Garbage Collector. It ll be great to work on GHC, specially in the RTS, and to produce code that can contribute to a wide number of users, like the users of darcs, XMonad, pandoc and other softwares built with GHC. I ll be blogging here about the status of my project. Coding starts at May 24th, until then I ll read the GHC source code documentation and experimenting with performance measurements using Criterion in a system with no daemons enabled. Good Summer to everyone.

3 May 2010

Matthew Garrett: PCI power management problems

I've previously written about some of the implementation details of runtime PCI power management. One of the key aspects for PCI devices is that the PME line on the device be able to generate a wakeup event. Unfortunately, it turns out that since Windows makes no use of this functionality at present, some vendors have started failing to wire this up. This is problematic because the device itself still announces PME support and will even raise a PME signal when it gets woken up - but it's pretty much screaming as hard as it can and nobody's listening because somebody's replaced the air with cheese.

Bother, etc.

The obvious question is what to do next. We could poll all the PCI devices every second or so to see if there's a PME status register that's been set. This would be reasonably cheap (we're going to wake up at least once a second on x86 anyway, so it makes no real difference to power consumption) but would introduce obvious latency in the wakeup path. This would be fine for certain types of situation (you're probably not going to be too sad if your SD reader takes a second longer to notice a card insertion) but not others (if an sdio wireless card generates a wakeup interrupt then we really ought to do something about it in a more sensible timeframe). A second is to force users to pass a boottime argument to enable this at all. That kind of sucks.

The third possibility is limited to a subset of hardware, but does allow the introduction of some kind of elegance into what would otherwise be one of those nightmarish scenarios that makes me consider taking up farming instead. If we can trigger a PME ourselves then we can test whether the line is connected. This doesn't appear to be possible on SDHCI but the spec for firewire makes it look like we can do it there - one of the interrupt sources is the port enable/disable register, and we can hit toggle that ourselves. I haven't actually tested this yet, but if it works that would let us make this determination.

It's depressing that doing anything interesting with power management is still heavily determined by what Microsoft have bothered to implement - to the extent that on some machines (hello, Thinkpads) there are no GPE methods at all for PME signals and you don't get runtime power management at all. The only thing that saves us is that (a) it's pretty hard to be able to screw up stuff that's already all glued into one chip package, so integrated stuff like USB should be fine anyway, and (b) PCIe does this as part of the normal traffic stream so there's no way to get that wrong. Unless you're still missing the GPE methods for the signals (hello, Thinkpads) in which case you get nothing unless the native PCIe signalling works. I suspect that we can always force that, so there's some hope yet.

In summary, then: dispassionate.

Russell Coker: Flash, Apple, and Linux

Steve Jobs has published an interesting article about Flash [1]. He criticises Flash for being proprietary, this seems a little hypocritical coming from Apple (who s the only competitor for Microsoft in terms of being the most proprietary computer company) but is in fact correct. Steve advocates HTML5 which is a better technical solution to a lot of the things that Flash does. He claims that Apple users aren t missing out on much, but I think that sites such as Physics Games [2] demonstrate the benefits of Flash. I think that Apple s attack on Flash is generally a good thing. HTML5 web sites will work everywhere which will be a good incentive for web designers to fix their sites. I also think that we want to deprecate it, but as it s unfortunately popular it s useful to have tools such as GNASH to use Flash based web sites with free software. Microsoft has belatedly tried to compete with flash, but it s Silverlight system and the free but patent encumbered Linux equivalent Moonlight have very little content to play and will probably disappear soon. As an aside the relentless determination of GNOME people to force the MONO project (including Moonlight) on it s users convinced me to remove GNOME from all systems that I run. OS News has a good analysis of the MPEG-LA patents [3] which are designed to prevent anyone making any commercial use of H.264 which includes putting such videos on sites that contain Google advertising! These patent terms are so horrible that they want to control video streams that were ever encoded with them, so you can t even transcode a H.264 stream to an open format without potentially having the scum at MPEG-LA going after you. This is worth noting when examining Apple s actions, they support MPEG patents and therefore seem happy to do anything that reduces the freedom of their customers. Apple s 1984 commercial has been proven to be a lie, it s Apple that wants to control our freedom. Charles Stross makes some good points about the issues related to Apple and Flash [4]. He believes that it s all part of an Apple push to cloud computing and that Apple wants to own all our data at the back-end while providing a relatively reliable front-end (IE without all the anti-virus nonsense that is needed on the MS-Windows platform. Cloud computing is a good thing and I can t wait for the Linux support for it to improve, I support a number of relatives who run Linux and it would be a lot easier for me if they could have the primary storage for everything be on the cloud so that I can do central backups of user data and they can use their own data while visiting each other. I think that a network filesystem that is similar in concept to offline-IMAP would be a really good thing, I know that there are some filesystems such as AFS and CODA that are designed for wide area network use with client-side caching but as far as I am aware they aren t designed for the type of operation that offline/caching IMAP supports. Matt Brubeck has given a good status report of the work porting Firefox to Android [5]. He notes that the next version of Fennec (mobile Firefox) will have Electrolysis the Firefox one process per tab feature that was first implemented in Google Chrome [6]. I think that the development of Fennec and the one process per tab feature are both great developments. Matt also says One of my personal goals is to make Firefox compatible with more mobile sites, and to give web developers the tools and information they need to make their sites work great in mobile Firefox. I ll write much more about this in future articles , that sounds great, I look forward to the results of his coding and to reading his blog posts about it!

Christian Perrier: Bug #580000

Time for our bi-monthly post... Salvo Tomaselli reported the Debian bug #580000 on Sunday May 2nd, against the kopete package. Bug #570000 was reported as of February 15th 2010. We're now behind our "10,000 bugs in 2 months" pace by two weeks, so this confirms the slowdown in Debian's bug report rate. I hope this doesn't confirm also the slowdown in Debian's development rate.

Guido G?nther: krb5-auth-dialog: DBUS signals and plugins

Krb5-auth-dialog now sends DBus signals when you acquire or renew your Kerberos ticket granting ticket and when the ticket expires. When using OpenAFS This can e.g. be used to trigger a call to aklog on ticket renewal. It's simple to catch the DBus signals from a Python script: 
import dbus
bus = dbus.SessionBus()
bus.add_signal_receiver(tgt_renewed_handler, dbus_interface = "org.gnome.KrbAuthDialog", signal_name = "krb_tgt_renewed")
bus.add_signal_receiver(tgt_acquired_handler, dbus_interface = "org.gnome.KrbAuthDialog", signal_name = "krb_tgt_acquired")
bus.add_signal_receiver(tgt_expired_handler, dbus_interface = "org.gnome.KrbAuthDialog", signal_name = "krb_tgt_expired")
The tgt_*_handler will then be called when the signal is received. The shipped Python example allows to execute a script already: 
tgt-signals.py -q --acquired-action=aklog --renewed-action=aklog
Krb5-auth-dialog also got a plugin system so you could use a loadable module for these kind of things instead. It already ships a PAM plugin that can be used to run some typical actions like calling pam-afs-session or getting kx509 set up. You need to tell krb5-auth-dialog which plugins to load via gconf. To load the dummy and PAM plugins use: 
gconftool-2 --set --list-type=string --type=list /apps/krb5-auth-dialog/plugins/enabled [pam,dummy]
Since I'm not using AFS or kx509 myself I'd be interested to know if this works out as expected. If you want to write your one plugins you can use the dummy plugin as a basis. A package with the above enabled has been uploaded to Debian experimental.

Lucas Nussbaum: But why isn t Debian using Launchpad?

Due to my work on Ultimate Debian Database, I m sometimes asked why Debian isn t using Launchpad. First, using Launchpad can mean two different things. The first possibility is using Canonical s instance of Launchpad. That would mean creating a Debian project on launchpad.net, and using Canonical s infrastructure. Well, that s clearly not a good idea. We (Debian) do not want to depend on Canonical to fix bugs or make enhancements that we require to improve Debian. For example, Canonical imposes the use of the Bazaar Version Control System in Launchpad: you simply can t use Git instead (git-bzr hacks don t count). We want to stay in control of our infrastructure, for obvious reasons. So the other possibility would be to setup our own instance of Launchpad, given that Launchpad is now Free Software. However, it is not clear if it is actually possible: I was told by a Launchpad developer that they didn t know of any external (outside Canonical) installation of Launchpad. Even if this was possible, it is not clear at all that the Ubuntu infrastructure is superior to the Debian infrastructure. The Debian infrastructure has many nice features that are missing in Launchpad, for example version-tracking in the Bug Tracking System, which allows to track (by parsing the changelog) the versions of a package where a bug has been fixed or not (example with iceweasel). So, when switching to Launchpad, we would have to reimplement quite a lot of needed features in in, with no clear benefit: the Debian infrastructure works fine, and is actively maintained. It s also interesting to note that while the Ubuntu infrastructure is centered on Launchpad, there are quite a lot of external services that are not integrated in Launchpad: the Ubuntu popularity contest, merges.u.c, patches.u.c, the various services on qa.ubuntuwire.org and qa.u.c, etc. With the Debian model, it is very easy to add a new service and get it integrated with the various dashboard (Debian Developer s Packages Overview, Packages Tracking System). Within Ubuntu, those external services are really second-class citizens. All in all, the infrastructures of the two projects reflect their organizations: bazaar model for Debian, with an emphasis on collaboration between the services, controlled by Canonical for Ubuntu.

Lucas Nussbaum: Castles in the air

When people ask me why I m so fond of computers , I already answer that it s like being able to build very large buildings or bridges, super-fast cars, etc without having to care about buying the raw material needed, or about the consequences: computers are like a giant Lego box which is only limited by the programmer s abilities. What I discovered today is that there s a quote from Frederick P. Brooks that says about the same thing:
The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures.

David Welton: Mochiweb proto-deb and hacking

I had some time over the weekend to play a bit with Mochiweb. It's a very nice little bit of work, but kind of strange for an open source project. I think both things come from the fact that it was built to do some very specific things in a business, and once those goals were accomplished, that suited the owner just fine. There is no nice/fancy project home page, no links to documentation, and in general, all of the stuff you're supposed to do for a successful open source project. The code, however, is good, fast, and pretty easy to deal with. Anyway, I wanted to use it for a thing or two I'm working on, so I created some .deb packaging for it. It's been ages since I've done that (indeed, I officially retired from Debian), so it's probably missing something, but I thought I'd throw it out there for people to have a look. The git repository is here: http://github.com/davidw/mochiweb - my changes live in the 'deb' branch. The big thing I've tried to do is make it so that if you have several mochiweb projects on the same machine, they'll all be started/stopped by the init scripts, if you so choose. What you do is add a file with the path to the application to the /etc/mochiweb/apps directory, and when you do /etc/init.d/mochiweb start, it will start all of those. At stop time, it will run the stop.sh script, which shuts things down. It runs things as the user that owns the start.sh script, unless it's root, in which case it simply doesn't run. The thing that's missing right now is a way to get the thing to write logs somewhere, and I'm not quite sure how to do that, so here's hoping someone will write in with a suggestion. The .deb file I generated ought to be attached to this post, although there are no guarantees that I'll keep it up to date.

Mike Hommey: Important milestone for Iceweasel in Debian

I just uploaded a pre-release of Iceweasel 3.6.4 to experimental. This is an important milestone for several reasons:

Christine Spang: Christine Spang: in case it wasn't already obvious

Mode of transportation has not yet been determined. Possibly bike, possibly train, possibly bus. It feels strange not needing to buy plane tickets. I should be there for all of the conference proper but not for DebCamp.

Ingo Juergensmann: Drupal and PostgreSQL - SELECT DISTINCT, ORDER BY

Some time ago, version 6.16 of Drupal was released and hit the Debian archives shortly after. It fixed some security issues, but apparently introduced a regression for PostgreSQL users. The problem seems to be a MySQLism in Drupal or in other words: Drupal is not following the SQL92 standard.
The error is:

2010-05-02 06:36:23.155 CEST drupal6_mycr drupal6 ERROR: for SELECT DISTINCT, ORDER BY expressions must appear in select list
2010-05-02 06:36:23.155 CEST drupal6_mycr drupal6 STATEMENT: SELECT DISTINCT nc.nid FROM node_comment_statistics nc INNER JOIN node_access na ON na.nid = nc.nid WHERE (na.grant_view >= 1 AND ((na.gid = 0 AND na.realm = 'all') OR (na.gid = 0 AND na.realm = 'content_access_author') OR (na.gid = 1 AND na.realm = 'content_access_rid'))) AND ( nc.comment_count > 0 )ORDER BY nc.last_comment_timestamp DESC LIMIT 10 OFFSET 0


There are several issues open in the Drupal issue tracker like #742896 and #742006 and #735120. Apparently there are several ways to address this issue, but none seem to be the preferred solution. In #735120 there's a patch, but it seems not to be accepted so far.

So, is there a good and viable patch for that issue that will go into the next update of Drupal?

Junichi Uekawa: pbuilder on SSD.

pbuilder on SSD. I managed to set my new machine (vaio P) up enough that it runs pbuilder. I checked the speed. sudo cp -a base.cow sid-chroottook 50 seconds. cowbuilder does cp -al and cowbuilder took 5 seconds. Although SSD seems to improve the speed somewhat, not doing any data copying is much faster.

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