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Two PRs and an ongoing patch

ZHAO Xin (a colleague of mine) has pointed out that GNOME Simplified Chinese does not did a good work when displaying time. He then filed ports/72722 and ports/72723.

Adam Weinberger (adamw@, one of the major FreeBSD GNOME maintainers) has then pointed out that it might be better to contact the Simplified Chinese Translation team. In a private mail, I have explained that the root cause of the issue, however, is that our libc implementation does not implemented the GNU Extensions, say, the -_^0 extensions of strftime(3). Adam have then kindly approved that the patches should be committed, and we should have a long-run solution then finally remove them.

Investigating 5.3-RC1 panic

Before reporting this to the list, I would first gather enough information.

Alu’s server boxes is suffering in continued reboot when server is loaded. Because he is supporting FreeBSD by utilizing 5.3-RC1 in his production environment (and it’s moderately loaded as it is connected to the ChinaNet Backbone), and donated many devices for dedicated services of the FreeBSD China Community, I think we must help him to solve these out.

I have plugged a new kernel configuration on his box in order to obtain a (potential) crashdump and figure out what is happening. Maybe we will get it tomorrow.

Debian值得我们学习的地方

很多人管Debian叫「大便」，不过这里我还是宁愿称其为Debian。

今天ld说了Debian的包的一个比较有意思的维护模式，我之前也了解一些，那就是它的stable和unstable包。Stable和Unstable两种。

We're likely to cut 5.3-RELEASE one week later!!

Scott Long, the Release Engineering Team Lead, has announced the “Final MFC Call” which means we must MFC all changes in the next 24 hours. A Release Candidate would be tagged soon (in 1 day) by creating RELENG_5_3 branch.

Accroding to the historical release engineering practice, we will release at least two release candadites. However, the release engineering team thought that we have seven (7) beta releases and we may reduce the need of RC’s to only one.

ASP.net forum deployed

It seems that sater@ have deployed the necessary resources for ASP.net forum on Frontfree’s internal network. I have not read the code but I wish this a success.

A script to update site periodically through CVSup(R)

The script I am using for updating my own website(s) is not quite complex, it is here:

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#!/bin/sh
# Detect and update the files
#
# $Phantasm$

CVSROOT="/home/ncvs"
SUPFILE="/home/delphij/cvsup/supfile-delphijweb"
LOCKFILE="/home/delphij/cvsup/cvsup-lock"

if [ -f ${CVSROOT}/CVSROOT/commitlogs/have_updates ]
then
	rm ${CVSROOT}/CVSROOT/commitlogs/have_updates
	cvsup -1gL 2 ${SUPFILE}
fi

Of course you need some CVSROOT scripts to get it work, but the idea is not too complex.

5.3-RC1 today

Today FreeBSD will have its 5.3-RC1 if there is no other problem occours. I have sent a private mail to Doug Barton about a strange issue I have in BIND9, however, it does seem to be serious enough nor it is clear to determine the impact. I may post it later on a public list.

5.3-RC1 is also the point that I can suggest you to install 5-STABLE instead of 4-STABLE because most of the show-stopping issues are addressed and being corrected.

beastie.frontfree.net is now running bind 9.3

I finally got beastie.frontfree.net running bind 9.3 (as FreeBSD 5.3-BETA7 does, which is chroot’ed by default). While this is accomplished primarily with help of src/UPDATING’s instructions and Doug Barton’s excellent mergemaster(8). BIND stands for “Berkeley Internet Name Daemon” and is the de-facto standard of DNS implementation.

The FreeBSD Handbook (Simplified Chinese) committed!

Hiroki has committed it on behalf of me (doc/ freeze is imminent) today.

Praying for the FreeBSD Simplified Chinese Handbook to get committed

I have set the final tag for it and uploaded a copy to http://people.freebsd.org/~delphij/doc_CNPROJ_20040925.tbz and I hope this can soon get committed so 5.3 will have Handbook in Simplified Chinese.

I have fixed countless language issues in this snapshot… Weber has claimed that he will help out to find more.

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