Search Results: "Bernhard Miklautz"

19 July 2024

Bits from Debian: New Debian Developers and Maintainers (May and June 2024)

The following contributors got their Debian Developer accounts in the last two months: The following contributors were added as Debian Maintainers in the last two months: Congratulations!

4 March 2016

Mike Gabriel: My FLOSS activities in February 2016

February 2016 has been a very active month regarding me contributing to the FLOSS world. Honouring my Sponsors I am happy to share that this month's FLOSS work has been sponsored by various sponsors. Thanks to all people and companies sponsoring my work on FLOSS projects. This month's MATE uploads to Debian With regards to the Beta 1 Freeze date of Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (18th Feb 2016), Martin Wimpress, Vangelis Mouhtsis and I performed quite some work on Debian MATE. Uploads to Debian unstable: The Debian MATE Packaging Team also took over maintenance of the GTK-2+ legacy package libwnck [13]. The first upload introducing some major changes and package clean-ups caused a slight wave [14] because of a missing dependency in libwnck-dev (that fell victim to some clean-ups in debian/control). Those issues have been addressed immediately and have now been settled. The main reason for working on a legacy package like libwnck was the need for having gir1.2-wnck-1.0 (back) in Debian. The new MATE dock applet requires the libwnck GIR package to be present at runtime. One of the novelties in Ubuntu MATE 16.04 LTS will be the option to adapt the look and feel of the MATE desktop to how a Unity-based desktop looks like. Martin Wimpress is giving intense work to providing a dock applet and topmenu support as one alternative among the various Ubuntu MATE desktop experiences provided. The alternative desktop layouts can be configured with the MATE Tweak tool. Work on RDP related packages Work on FreeRDP 1.1 as currently in Debian I finally managed to give some priority (and thus time) to fixing various issues in the freerdp package in Debian [15]. Many people had provided patches and solutions to open issues and I tried to honour as many of those, as possible. Please note that I had to disable the GStreamer support in FreeRDP for the recent uploads, as the currently used Git snapshot of FreeRDP only supports GStreamer 0.10's API whereas the security team is in the process of having gstreamer0.10-* packages removed from the Debian stretch/unstable archives. Work on FreeRDP 2.0, coming to Debian soon Furthermore, Bernhard Miklautz is currently working on a freerdp2 package, which will bring the latest Git snapshot of FreeRDP upstream into Debian (and also re-introduce GStreamer support, based on GStreamer 1.0). Bernhard invested a lot of time on pushing the current HEAD of FreeRDP upstream [16] towards a FreeRDP 2.x version. Starting with FreeRDP 2.x it will be possible to install different FreeRDP versions on one system without file naming conflicts. For March 2016, I have doing the final freerdp2 reviewing on my todo list (possibly together with H ctor Or n Mart nez who is highly interested in the RDP backend support in Wayland/Weston), so that we can provide first uploads to Debian experimental sometime the coming month. The packaging progress is continuously discussed on the #freerdp channel on Freenode and can also be viewed on Github [17]. Review of revised XRDP package Recently, Dominik George from Teckids e.V. [18] contacted me about reviewing their effort of updating the Debian package xrdp, which currently is in ITA state [19]. Feedback has been provided and I am waiting for a ping from his side so that I can take some (ideally) final looks at the package and sponsor the upload. Work on Debian Edu related packages This month, I spent a couple of hours of work on several Debian Edu related tasks, some of them induced by problems at local school sites we support. Work on Debian LTS My 8h-portion of work for the Debian LTS Project, I performed at the very end of February. With the Debian squeeze LTS EOL date on 29th February, I saw to finalizing my personal open todos regarding Debian squeeze LTS, which basically was getting two CVE issues fixed in the lxc package [26]. The rest of the work hours has been spent on helping out the Security Team of Debian with open CVE issues in Debian wheezy packages: The gosa .debdiff has been approved by a member of the Security Team, the upload will happen today. With my LTS frontdesk hat on (during week 9 / 2016) I also spent some time providing help regarding SVN checkout problems and raised a couple of questions on how to coordinate the work phase between the Debian squeeze LTS EOL and the official launch of the Debian wheezy LTS project phase [27]. Work on nx-libs At the end of February, I finally managed to propose a way of dropping the libNX_Xrender.so bundled library from the nx-libs code base. I filed a PR [28] against nx-libs that proposes its removal and provides a patch for using X.Org's libXrender.so version. As a preview for nx-libs work in March 2016... I have started with removing the complete libNX_X11.so library from nx-libs and using X.Org's X11 client library. This will introduce a code removal of around 160.000 lines of code to nx-libs. More to come on this later... light+love,
Mike [1] http://ubuntu-mate.org/
[2] https://www.freexian.com/
[3] http://www.qindel.com/ [4] (caja)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2016/02/msg00468.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2016/02/msg02080.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2016/02/msg02086.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2016/02/msg02183.html [5] (mate-menu)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2016/02/msg00469.html [6] (mate-panel)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2016/02/msg01900.html [7] (mate-dock-applet)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2016/02/msg01935.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2016/02/msg02481.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2016/02/msg03097.html [8] (mate-polkit)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2016/02/msg01936.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2016/02/msg02395.html [9] (eom)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2016/02/msg02073.html [10] (pluma)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2016/02/msg02128.html [11] (topmenu-gtk)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2016/02/msg02399.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2016/02/msg02501.html [12] (mate-tweak)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2016/02/msg03086.html [13] (libwnck)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2016/02/msg01248.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2016/02/msg01404.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2016/02/msg01825.html [14] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=814585
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=814588
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=814697 [15] (freerdp)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2016/02/msg02487.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2016/02/msg02630.html [16] https://github.com/FreeRDP/FreeRDP
[17] https://github.com/bmiklautz/debian-freerdp2 [18] https://www.teckids.org/ [19] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=719624 [20] (gosa)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2016/02/msg01554.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2016/02/msg01954.html [21] https://sunweavers.net/blog/node/34 [22] (ldap2zone)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2016/02/msg01966.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2016/02/msg01967.html [23] (shutdown-at-night)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2016/02/msg03605.html [24] (italc)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-changes/2016/02/msg01944.html [25] https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=815948 [26] (lxc, Debian squeeze LTS)
https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-changes/2016/02/msg00037.html [27] https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts/2016/02/msg00155.html
(The thread continues in March 2016) [28] https://github.com/ArcticaProject/nx-libs/pull/93

4 May 2015

Michael Prokop: The #newinjessie game: tools related to RPM packages

Continuing the #newinjessie game: Bernhard Miklautz, contributor to jenkins-debian-glue and author of jenkins-package-builder (being in an early stage but under active development to provide support for building RPMs, similar to what jenkins-debian-glue provides for building Debian/Ubuntu packages) pointed out that there are new tools related to RPM packaging available in Debian/jessie:

24 March 2014

Michael Prokop: Building Debian+Ubuntu packages on EC2

In a project I recently worked on we wanted to provide a jenkins-debian-glue based setup on Amazon s EC2 for building Debian and Ubuntu packages. The idea is to keep a not-so-strong powered Jenkins master up and running 24 7, while stronger machines serving as Jenkins slaves should be launched only as needed. The project setup in question is fully open sourced (more on that in a separate blog post), hereby I am documenting the EC2 setup in usage. Jenkins master vs. slave Debian source packages are generated on Jenkins master where a checkout of the Git repository resides. The Jenkins slaves do the actual workload by building the binary packages and executing piuparts (.deb package installation, upgrading, and removal testing tool) on the resulting binary packages. The Debian packages (source+binaries) are then provided back to Jenkins master and put into a reprepro powered Debian repository for public usage. Preparation The starting point was one of the official Debian AMIs (x86_64, paravirtual on EBS). We automatically deployed jenkins-debian-glue on the system which is used as Jenkins master (we chose a m1.small instance for our needs). We started another instance, slightly adjusted it to already include jenkins-debian-glue related stuff out-of-the-box (more details in section Reduce build time below) and created an AMI out of it. This new AMI ID can be configured for usage inside Jenkins by using the Amazon EC2 Plugin (see screenshot below). IAM policy Before configuring EC2 in Jenkins though start by adding a new user (or group) in AWS s IAM (Identity and Access Management) with a custom policy. This ensures that your EC2 user in Jenkins doesn t have more permissions than really needed. The following policy should give you a starting point (we restrict the account to allow actions only in the EC2 region eu-west-1, YMMV):
 
  "Version": "2012-10-17",
  "Statement": [
     
      "Action": [
        "ec2:CreateTags",
        "ec2:DescribeInstances",
        "ec2:DescribeImages",
        "ec2:DescribeKeyPairs",
        "ec2:GetConsoleOutput",
        "ec2:RunInstances",
        "ec2:StartInstances",
        "ec2:StopInstances",
        "ec2:TerminateInstances"
      ],
      "Effect": "Allow",
      "Resource": "*",
            "Condition":  
                "StringEquals":  
                    "ec2:Region": "eu-west-1"
                 
             
     
  ]
 
Jenkins configuration Configure EC2 access with Access Key ID , Secret Access Key , Region and EC2 Key Pair s Private Key (for SSH login) inside Jenkins in the Cloud section on $YOUR_JENKINS_SERVER/configure. Finally add an AMI in the AMIs Amazon EC2 configuration section (adjust security-group as needed, SSH access is enough): As you can see the configuration also includes a launch script. This script ensures that slaves are set up as needed (provide all the packages and scripts that are required for building) and always get the latest configuration and scripts before starting to serve as Jenkins slave. Now your setup should be ready for launching Jenkins slaves as needed: NOTE: you can use the Instance Cap configuration inside the advanced Amazon EC2 Jenkins configuration section to place an upward limit to the number of EC2 instances that Jenkins may launch. This can be useful for avoiding surprises in your AWS invoices. :) Notice though that the cap numbers are calculated for all your running EC2 instances, so be aware if you have further machines running under your account, you might want to e.g. further restrict your IAM policy then. Reduce build time Using a plain Debian AMI and automatically installing jenkins-debian-glue and further jenkins-debian-glue-buildenv* packages on each slave startup would work but it takes time. That s why we created our own AMI which is nothing else than an official Debian AMI with the bootstrap.sh script (which is referred to in the screenshot above) already executed. All the necessary packages are pre-installed and also all the cowbuilder environments are already present then. From time to time we start the instance again to apply (security) updates and execute the bootstrap script with its &dash&dashupdate option to also have all the cowbuilder systems up2date. Creating a new AMI is a no-brainer and we can then use the up2date system for our Jenkins slaves, if something should break for whatever reason we can still fall back to an older known-to-be-good AMI. Final words How to set up your Jenkins jobs for optimal master/slave usage, multi-distribution support (Debian/Ubuntu) and further details about this setup are part of another blog post. Thanks to Andreas Granig, Victor Seva and Bernhard Miklautz for reading drafts of this.