I’ve spent the last week packaging VMware Workstation 7.0.0 at work. Looking around on the net, I’ve been unable to find anything helpful about packaging this new version, so it seems nobody’s got around to packaging it yet.
I’ve asked our customer for its approval for releasing our packaging scripts to the community and got it, so here are our packaging scripts for this version, courtesy of EDF. See the instructions in debian/README.source for what has to be done to turn it into a full source package.
The packaging is based on our previous 6.5.2 packaging, which was itself based (partially, at least) upon the Gento 6.5.2 ebuild. It uses a tweaked vmware-installer to install the products to debian/tmp, then makes use of the vmware-installer database to populate the packages.
I think this method should work with any VMware product using vmware-installer 1.1.
Packages have been built and tested on Etch and Lenny.
Hope it helps! Bugs, comments, questions to the email address listed as Maintainer in debian/control, please :-)
Published on
December 26, 2009 in
Hacks.
Over the past weeks, a couple of contributors sent me fixes and new features for forked-daapd. Thanks to you all!
The biggest change is the addition of TV shows metadata as found, for instance, in TV shows bought on the iTunes store. Together with the added support for FrontRow and QuickTime clients, this means forked-daapd is a lot more able at streaming video files than it ever was. Kudos to Ace Jones for his work!
Note, however, that you’ll need a patched version of ffmpeg to pick up the TV shows metadata from your MP4 files. At the time of writing, the patches have not landed into ffmpeg upstream yet, and it’s a bit unclear when this will happen. Contact Ace for the patch and instructions, see the commits in the git tree for his email address.
Git tree on Alioth: http://git.debian.org/?p=users/jblache/forked-daapd.git (git URIs on the page)
Published on
December 24, 2009 in
Hacks.
I’ve just bought a Packard Bell OneTwo (M3700), a 600 Euros all-in-one computer with a 20″ multipoint touch screen (there are bigger models with 23″ touch screen, wifi and some other options). This machine will be used to run OpenBravoPOS, a free (libre) point of sale software. So far, I think this machine is just perfect for the job.
Getting it to run smoothly under Linux is not a walk in the park, however. There are some quirks and some assembly is required, but once you’re done (that takes a couple of hours at most once you’ve got all the info, which you have if you’re reading this) this machine is just great.
It’s fast, with a 2.1 GHz Pentium Dual-Core (T4300) CPU, 4 GB of RAM, an Intel GM45 GPU with up to 256 MB of shared RAM, gigabit networking, a fast 320 GB SATA disk and a combo DVD-drive (not a slot-in, too bad). The screen is nice, and the touchscreen is incredibly smooth, precise and sensitive. The sound is good, the webcam is great and it works out of the box, too!
Update: added a note about the card reader.
Update 2: the instructions can also be found on the Debian wiki now.