I posted back in January about RPM Spec Files for nodejs 0.9.5 and v8 on CentOS 6. In that post I also said that I was unable to get recent NodeJS to build on CentOS 5 because of a long chain of dependencies including node-gyp, v8, http-parser, glibc …
more ...Between RHEL/CentOS 5 and 6 the default RPM compression format was
changed to xz. As such, trying to build a recent Fedora or Cent6 SRPM on
Cent5 will error out with a message like
error: unpacking of archive failed on file foo;51a4c2a5: cpio: MD5 sum mismatch
because tar …
This post is part of a series of older draft posts from a few months ago that I’m just getting around to publishing. Unfortunately, I have yet to find a build system that meets my requirements (see the last paragraph).
At work, we have a handful - currently a really …
more ...The latest version of nodejs that I could find as an RPM for CentOS was 0.6.16, from http://patches.fedorapeople.org/oldnode/stable/. That’s the one that puppetlabs currently uses in their puppetlabs-nodejs module. There is, however, a nodejs 0.9.5 RPM in the Fedora Rawhide …
more ...I’ve been doing a lot of RPM packaging lately, and on different (and
very old) distros and versions. Sometimes I lose track of all of the
macros used in specfiles (_bindir _sbindir dist _localstatedir, etc).
There’s no terribly easy way to dump a list of all of the …
We were seeing some strange behavior with Mac client machines on the network lately, specifically with DNS queries (I’d guess that a lot of it has to do with Bonjour), but the discussion touched on the DNS Changer trojan for Mac. I’d really never heard about it before …
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