Monthly Archives: November 2009

Dual Master Git Repositories

Posted on November 17, 2009 by Dennis

One of the nice things about git, is the ability to work in a distributed manor. Instead of having to have a central repository for your source code, you can create a copy of your repository and do work, while … Continue reading →

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Upgrading Gentoo 2007.0 to 10.0

Posted on November 10, 2009 by Dennis

So I left all these servers running gentoo a couple years ago. Now, after all this time (and uptime!), I want to install something. Error: emerge -av portage These are the packages that would be merged, in order: Calculating dependencies … Continue reading →

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Cleaning up extracted package contents

Posted on November 4, 2009 by Dennis

I hate it when I download a source archive, uncompress it, and find that instead of creating a package directory, with the contents of the archive, the archive was created with a bunch of files at the root directory. Suppose … Continue reading →

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