Below are the 9 most recent journal entries recorded in alikins_code's LiveJournal:

Thursday, March 18th, 2004
3:06 pm	So, death march phase 1 is over. phase 2 should be starting in the next couple weeks. Trying to get some fedora/rhel up2date bits done in the meantime. Starting working on rpm metadata repo support again. Made some progress, despite a month or so worth of bitrot. Can at least do updates and installs with dep solving now. It isn't very optimized, but it seems a lot quicker that yum repo's (at least from empty spools). Got some ideas on how to possibly make it a lot faster. But they require some wacky changes, so we'll see. Now for some gui tweaking. (1 Comment |Comment on this)
Thursday, February 12th, 2004
6:12 pm	The previously mentioned death march project so far doesn't seem as bad as I initially thought. Which can only mean I'm missing something. Still taking up all of my time and then some though, so fedora up2date has been languishing. Sigh. (Comment on this)
Monday, January 26th, 2004
10:33 pm	Doh. Just as I was making some progress on fedora up2date, looks like a short term death march project lands in my lap. (Comment on this)
Sunday, January 25th, 2004
3:48 am	Fedora has new leader. Or least, a new leader of our internal efforts: Cristian Gafton. Having worked with Cristian on bootstrapping Red Hat Network from nothing [ no code, no hardware, no name, no product, etc] to a shipping product in just under 3 months, I know that when needed, he can get crap done. And do it eggs-eedingly[1] well. Knowing Cristian, it should at least be an interesting ride ;-> [1] inside joke, but trust me, after about 10 weeks of working your ass off every day, thats eggs-tremely funny. In up2date news, friday mostly spent looking at RHEL stuff, so only some minor changes for fc2 (aka, point up2date at the right fc2 urls). A little tweaking of the "rpm metadata" code, but not much new. (Comment on this)
Thursday, January 22nd, 2004
8:10 pm	The version of up2date that automatically uses mirrors should be landing in rawhide, say, tomorowish. This should help cut down on some of the problems folks have been having. Made some good progress on adding "rpmmetadata" repo support to up2date. Package listing, obsoletes listing, header fetching, and package fetching working to some degree. dep solving isnt written yet. And various problems with object state and data caching need to be solved. But it's coming along. I'm a little concerned with the speed in which the "primary" metadata file is read in for large tree's, but I suspect it is offset by not having to download and read every rpm header. (Comment on this)
Tuesday, January 20th, 2004
8:14 pm	More progress on mirror stuff. Just need to get a tiny bit of infrastructure in place. And for packages to float out to rawhide. (Comment on this)
4:02 pm	spent most of monday beta testing some new RHN web site features, so no real up2date changes. Ran though a pile of bugs this morning. One thing that fedora seems to have done is get a lot more people using Rawhide. This is good, and bad. People quickly find bugs in code I throw into the "testing" channel. So, I get things like 5 reports of a up2date bug less than a day after it hits. Created my, lets see, 9th branch of up2date. Nothing quite as fun as backporting feature and bug fixes to a 2 year old branch with all of your major components at a different major level. Whee! More looking into the rpmmetadata stuff. Its a bit of a moving target at the moment though. (Comment on this)
Friday, January 16th, 2004
7:14 pm	Frustrating day. Got a lot of code written, but didnt really get anything finished. More progress on the rpm metadata repo support. It's wired in and package list fetching is working. Some progress made on making the network stuff more robust. It's a real blast trying to work around servers that like to serve total garbage as often as the actual intented payload. Some progress made, but not enough to commit and build. More staring at the problem of migrating bootloaders. (Comment on this)
1:02 am	up2date-4.3.8 discovered current rpm-python in rawhide breaks up2date. This should get fixed soon. In the meantime, up2date-4.3.8 has a workaround. This should only show up if reading the headers of packages with no files (like setup, for example) but that often gets hit when doing a full upgrade. Started work on up2date repo support for the new rpm metadata format currently being developed by skvidal, and others. It seems to have reached the point of useability. Have half working code for a "cmdline repo" as well. Aka, support for "up2date /path/to/something-1.0-1.i386.rpm" and having up2date do the right thing. For various reasons, thats harder than it should be, but alas. (Comment on this)