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Debian Build server (64bit) is finally ready !!!!

Salvatore Ansani — Fri, 09 Jan 2009 15:48:11 +0000

Yes, it’s true !!!

New 64bit server is finally ready for building packages !!!!!!

All my debian repository is now 64bit ready

Good downloading !!!!!

Auto Download from RapidShare & Co.

Salvatore Ansani — Wed, 31 Dec 2008 09:59:56 +0000

If you, like me, surf daily on Internet to search more software to download and, most of all, is on RapidShare like sites, this software is for you !!!!

FreeRapid‘s a simple Java downloader that supports downloading from Rapidshare and other file-sharing services. Simply copy and paste your links from a browser to this application. FreeRapid Downloader will handle the rest itself. No more clicking or uncomfortable waiting.

Main Features

support for concurrent downloading from *multiple services
downloading using proxy list
download history
smart clipboard monitoring
automatic checking for file’s existence on server
auto shutdown options
automatic plugins updates
simple CAPTCHA recognition
works on MS Windows, Linux and MacOS
easy to use
multilanguage interface – Czech, Danish, English, French, German, Hungarian, Chinese, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Polish, Slovak, Spanish, Ukrainian
looks amazingly
simply works!

Currently supported services are:

Rapidshare.com (+ premium account)
MegaUpload.com
Megarotic.com and Sexuploader.com
NetLoad.in
MediaFire.com
FileFactory.com
Filebase.to
Uploaded.to
DepositFiles.com
Share-online.biz
Egoshare.com
Easy-share.com
Letibit.net
XtraUpload.de
Shareator.com
Kewlshare.com
SaveFile.com
Ziddu.com
Load.to
Iskladka.cz
HellShare.com
QuickShare.cz
Uloz.to
FlyShare.cz
Edisk.cz
Upnito.sk
CobraShare.sk
Usercash.com (crypter)

If you need is, simply go to this site and enjoy

Migrating from MS Hyper-V to VMware ESXi

Salvatore Ansani — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 17:18:19 +0000

After 2 months of intensive use of Microsoft Hyper-V, finally I decided to migrate to VMware ESXi because MS is very very very very very very very sloooooooooooooow

I use Virtual Machines for developing and testing new components, so I need lot of (re)compilation using GCC for multiarch pourposes (amd64 CPU build i686 package).

I do lot of work on Hyper-V and I need to move my .vhd disk images to .vmdk.

First of all you need WinImage and you can use it to convert your .vhd to .vmdk.

But, believe me, you can’t use this new brand new piece of .vmdk directly on ESXi, because VMware server refuse to use it like virtual hard disk.

Not, don’t worry, you don’t need to burn you ESXi installation (yes, I do it… ). You just need a VMware Workstation installation, so you can use vmware-vdiskmanager to import your converted .vmdk to ESXi server.

Simply type:

vmware-vdiskmanager -server IP -u USER -f PASSWORDFILE -r CONVERTED.vmdk -t 4 “[DATASTORE_ON_ESXi]/YouRealDisk.vmdk”

and all will be OK

REMEMBER: ESXi don’t support IDE HD, so everytime you startup your machine, you got a warning… simply ignore it !!!!

Enjoy,
Salvatore

64bit AMD Processor available for build pourposes ;)

Salvatore Ansani — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:38:23 +0000

Hi Guys !!!

This WE I just finished to setup my brand new 64bit processor with MS Hyper-V and lot of Linux Distros.

What this post mean ?!?!?!? Simply !!!! By now all packages I released on my Debian Repository will be available for amd64 architecture!!!

If you need some help with my packages, simply leave a mail !!!!

Enjoy

UPDATE: the MS Hyper-V is now “destroyed” and a brand new VMware ESXi is up and running

WINE & Debian

Salvatore Ansani — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 20:47:10 +0000

Hi guys,
I used for a long time this REPO to get updated WINE packages. Recently I noticed that packages for Debian are too older than Ubuntu and than current developer branch.

So I packaged my version of WINE for Debian

WHERE ?!?!?!?!? But on my repository, of course

Packages are for stable, testing, unstable, experimental !!!

Enjoy

K3B & KDE 4

Salvatore Ansani — Mon, 25 Aug 2008 10:18:55 +0000

For anyone interested to play with K3b and KDE4, I currently mantain a CVS nitghly build from official SVN repository.

If you interested to use this builds (binary & source) you can use my repo.

enjoy

########################
# ansani.it REPOSITORY #
#######################
#
# BINARY REPOSITORY #
deb http://ansani.it/debian/ stable contrib
deb http://ansani.it/debian/ testing contrib
deb http://ansani.it/debian/ unstable contrib
deb http://ansani.it/debian/ experimental contrib
#
# SOURCES REPOSITORY #
deb-src http://ansani.it/debian/ stable contrib
deb-src http://ansani.it/debian/ testing contrib
deb-src http://ansani.it/debian/ unstable contrib
deb-src http://ansani.it/debian/ experimental contrib

cowbuilder and debian stable/etch

Salvatore Ansani — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 10:09:42 +0000

Hi guys, I’m now working to create an automatic process to download/build/package a lot of .deb filez. Compiling environment is made with cowdancer/cowbuilder, so I can use a virtual builder to create multi-distro packages (currently stable/testing/unstable/experimental). I got a strange error with cowdancer / stable build. When I try to compile a package, I got this strange error:

 Attempting to satisfy build-dependencies
 -> Creating pbuilder-satisfydepends-dummy package
cowdancer: .ilist size unexpected
cowdancer: .ilist size unexpected
cowdancer: .ilist size unexpected
cowdancer: .ilist size unexpected
cowdancer: .ilist size unexpected
sh: /tmp/satisfydepends-aptitude/pbuilder-satisfydepends-dummy/DEBIAN/control: Cannot allocate memory
E: pbuilder-satisfydepends failed.

So I can’t compile anything for stable distro I solved with a very little workaround. In my stable build command line, I used –debian-etch-workaround switch and, now, all works OK !!!

Good debianizing

UPDATE: this post is the solution for this error

Qmailtoaster & Dovecot IMAP

Salvatore Ansani — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 07:18:42 +0000

Hi tech guys
After dome days of big bugs from my previous IMAP server (Courier 4.2.x – AUthlib 0.59.2), I decided to upgrade to last version available (Courier IMAP 4.4.1 – Authlib 0.61.0). I always installed package from qmail toaster, so I build a new .rpm and .srpm version for courier and authlib mantaining upstream qmailtoaster version.

After installation, I noticed something wrong
I got this strange error: “libauthvchkpw.so: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory”.
Why ?!?!?!? Simply because vpopmail support is’nt available with authlib 0.61.0 (from 0.60.4) !!!!!
But all my installation support vpopmail !!!!! ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH !!!

Don’t worry Salvatore, don’t worry The only file you need is libauthvchpw.so
I copied it from previous installation and all was OK

But…. bugs are still present… GRRRRR… I need another IMAP server… DOVECOT !!!!!

Installation is very very simple (yum installer help a lot ). But now it’s time to configure and migrate.

First, simple step Migration is immediate. All you need is to add this commands on /etc/dovecot.conf:

mail_location = maildir:~/Maildir
mail_uid = 89
mail_gid = 89
first_valid_uid = 89
last_valid_uid = 89
first_valid_gid = 89
last_valid_gid = 89

so you can access previous receveid mail Remeber, on qmail-toaster vpopmail uid/gid is 89. If you want to known which userid/groupid is assigned to your user, you need to issue from shell:

id vpopmail

Ok, now the hard work. Now you need to integrate your vpopmail installation (auth module) with DOVECOT. First of all, you can’t use SQL access. With qmail-toaster all domains have a separate table. This is’nt a problem… Real problem is domain translation !!! You can’t use %d (DOVECOT variable) because domain is translated. For example, my domain ansani.it is stored like ansani_it.

And now ?!?!?!? Don’t worry, you can use vchkpw and checkpassword

Yes yes yes yes, on your auth default section, you need to write something like that:

auth default {
mechanisms = plain
 
passdb checkpassword {
args = /home/vpopmail/bin/vchkpw
}
 
userdb prefetch  {
args = uid=89 gid=89 home=/home/vpopmail/domains/%d/%u
}
 
count = 1
}

Remember again, I’ve installed qmail-toaster and my mails are on /home/vpopmail/domains/MY_EMAIL_DOMAINS/MY_USERNAME_/Maildir.

After this mod, all works ok

Enjoyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy

Regards,
Salvatore

How to purge unused debian conf files

Salvatore Ansani — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 07:39:57 +0000

After you uninstall some .deb packages, you need to completely erase all unused configuration files.
You can use one line command like that:

dpkg -l | grep “^rc” | awk -F’ ‘ {‘print $2′} | xargs dpkg –purge

Enjoy your debian

How to purge unused packages on Debian

Salvatore Ansani — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:52:33 +0000

If you want to automatically purge unused .deb packages on your debian distro (perhaps after an aptitude upgrade), you can safely use this piece of code:

#!/bin/bash
 
while [ `deborphan | wc -l` -gt 0 ]; do
        deborphan | xargs dpkg --purge
done