agile sysadmin

by Ferenc Erki

Packaging vale-2.28.3 for Gentoo

Vale, the “syntax-aware linter for prose built with speed and extensibility in mind”, has a new v2.28.3 release.

My overlay already makes it available for fellow Gentoo users. I also contributed the same ebuild to the official Gentoo GURU overlay, where it should reach the reviewed branch soon.

Releasing Rex-1.14.3

I released Rex-1.14.3 today, making it available both on CPAN and in my Gentoo overlay.

This version of the friendly automation framework contains bug fixes for local package installation, command existence checks, and git tests.

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Gentoo GURU now includes Laminar

Laminar describes itself as a fast, lightweight, and modular Continuous Integration service for Linux. The official Gentoo GURU overlay now makes the latest 1.3 release available for the wider community.

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Gentoo GURU now includes Vale

Vale describes itself as a “syntax-aware linter for prose built with speed and extensibility in mind”. The official Gentoo GURU overlay now makes the v2.27.0 release available for the wider community.

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Gentoo has xsel-1.2.1 among the firsts

xsel works great to “manipulate the X selection”. Last week I stepped up as proxied maintainer to help bring already merged improvements to Gentoo users despite lack of new releases since 2008.

Thanks to support from soap during the past week, upstream has merged all ebuild patches, tagged 1.2.1, and Gentoo already ships the latest version — among the first distros, according to repology.

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