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August 9, 2008

Nicolás Varcarcel
nxvl
Nikolas Valcarcel
» unthinkable paranoia

Internet is now proved to be unsecured even if DNS are patched and i reached and unthinkable level of paranoia. Given that launchpad ppa (which are awesome for QA) doesn’t use signed packages, so i can’t actually check the integrity of them i’ve changed all my sources.list from url’s to ip’s so i can’t (at least i hope) be vulnerable to cache poisoning \o/

P.S: Please launchpad team, make ppa use signed packages!

by nxvl at 11:27 PM under apt , deb , dns , launchpad , packages , planet ubuntu , ppa , security , sources , ubuntu (Comments)
June 22, 2008

Nicolás Varcarcel
nxvl
Nikolas Valcarcel
» Augeas is packaged!

So, as i promise in my previous post i’m posting an update of the state of my project.

I have already packaged augeas, it’s a mixed package including a binary, a library, development files, and some extra files, i have already uploaded to my ppa to use it for testing, if you want to play with it feel free to include my ppa on your sources and mail me if you find some bugs :D

I’ve also uploaded it to revu so if you are a reviewer please check it, comment and Ack it when ready :D (if you are DD you can also check it on mentors.d.n and sponsor it for debian).

But what is augeas? Taken from the long description:

Augeas parses configuration files into a tree structure, which it exposes through its public API. Changes made through the API are written back to the initially read files.

The transformation works very hard to preserve comments and formatting details. It is controlled by “lens” definitions that describe the file format and the transformation into a tree.

So as a summary it is a cool, fun and easy way to manage config files!

by nxvl at 7:45 AM under augeas , debian , development , en , free software , mentors , package , packages , packaging , revu , ubuntu (Comments)