webapp-config is going stable

webapp-config-1.50.10 did see no additional bugs during the last four weeks so the webapps team did request stabilization of the new version this weekend.

webapp-config-1.50.10 has been implemented in python and replaces the older bash version. The main advantage is a massive speed increase when installing larger applications such as egroupware, horde or gallery.

There have been no major changes in functionality so you should be able to use the tool in the same fashion as before. The next version, 1.60, will see some bigger changes of the underlying code structure and this should allow us to extend the functionality with 1.70 and later.

If you want to follow the progress, you can check our trac installation at http://www.vhost-tools.org/

Posted at: 09:48 | Permalink | category: /english/technical/gentoo

Layman...

... your friendly overlay manager.

layman is a script that I hacked together in order to quickly retrieve and update Gentoo overlays.

The tool fetches a central list of overlays and allows you to choose the ones that you would like to have installed locally. The following command would add two overlays to your system:

layman -f -a php -a gentopia

The overlay locations will be added automatically to your /etc/make.conf (that will change in a later version, see this ticket).

Syncing the overlays is also supported:

layman --sync ALL

There are some additional feature which are described in the man page. layman currently supports overlays which are either exported via rsync or subversion. I will add support for tar-archives and plain web directories later.

You can get layman from the webapps-overlay though this is only a temporary location. It is in the app-portage section of the tree.

Please note that the script is an early test version and could easily damage your system. If you decide to use it nevertheless and find any bugs, please submit them here. Same goes for suggestions and criticism. If you want me to add/remove an overlay from my list you can also drop me a note there.

Posted at: 10:37 | Permalink | category: /english/technical/gentoo