Dear readers, The third release of debimg is available now: 0.0.3 Get the tarball: http://alioth.debian.org/~jak-guest/debimg_0.0.3.tar.gz Verify it: http://alioth.debian.org/~jak-guest/debimg_0.0.3.tar.gz.asc The ChangeLog: http://alioth.debian.org/~jak-guest/ChangeLog-0.0.3 Clone git repo: git://git.debian.org/git/users/jak-guest/debimg.git Browse the repo: http://git.debian.org/?p=users/jak-guest/debimg.git More Information: http://wiki.debian.org/DebImg Daily images: http://jak-linux.org/cdimage/daily-builds/testing/ About debimg debimg is a software designed to replace debian-cd, written in Python, and supporting the creation of single disks for the i386 and amd64 architectures. debimg is of course free software and licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public License 3 or (at your option) any later version. ... Read more 》

I am working on a Python extension for the libisofs library. The extension is written in Cython , a Python-like language designed to write Python extensions. At a later point, this extension will be used to create the ISO Images in debimg. It will be disabled by default, but you can enable it via a configuration option.

If you want to get the first part of a string (in the following example a), you should use the partition method of the string, as it is the fastest way (and it also gives you the delimiter in [1] and the other part of the string in [2]): In [1]: a = ‘a/b/c/d/e/f/g/h/i/j/k/l/m/n/o/p/q/r/s/t/u/v/w/x/y/z’ In [2]: timeit a.partition(’/’)[0] 1000000 loops, best of 3: 362 ns per loop In [3]: timeit a[:a.find(’/’)] 1000000 loops, best of 3: 443 ns per loop ... Read more 》

The next release of debimg (0.0.3) will be the first release supporting splitting packages over multiple disks. I worked a lot on the base technology today, and the basics are working. In order to get support for disk splitting, I introduce three new classes: Media, MediaSet and MediaSetCollection (all in libdebimg.media). The Media class is responsible for adding files to an image (incl. copying/linking), generating extra files (like MD5SUMS or documentation) and for building the image. It knows the space which is free, the size of each file and the md5sum of each file. It also writes all data inside dists/ ... Read more 》

debimg 0.0.2 has a new high speed dependency resolver and support for local repositories. With these new features, debimg is now able to produce netinst images in less than 4 seconds. BTW, you can easily build your own disk. Simply unpack the tarball, change the mirror to your one, and run ./debimg debimg.cfg. This should give you an i386 netinst disk. Get debimg 0.0.2 from http://users.alioth.debian.org/~jak-guest/debimg_0.0.2.tar.gz Fetch daily-built images at http://jak-linux.org/cdimage/daily-builds/testing/. For more information, see http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2008/03/msg00114.html ... Read more 》

A backport of gnash 0.8.2 is available in my PPA at deb <a href="http://ppa.launchpad.net/juliank/ubuntu">http://ppa.launchpad.net/juliank/ubuntu</a> <span>gutsy</span> main I wanted to try it, but I had no time to compile it, so I uploaded it to the PPA. The next day, I had a compiled backport. I don’t use it actively because it does not support some sites I visit. Another news is the recent addition of ndisgtk to the ship and ship-live seeds, which means it will be available on the disk. http://bazaar.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-core-dev/ubuntu-seeds/ubuntu.hardy/revision/1223. ... Read more 》

debimg’s cdimage is now online at http://jak-linux.org/cdimage/, and contains daily-builds of Debian testing netinst disks for i386 and amd64 architectures. debimg is a new software which aims to replace debian-cd. No code has been released yet, but will be in the next days. Please note that I can only provide jigdo images, because of bandwith and storage. I will soon add build logs, and files listing the differences compared to original netinst images. I will also add support for more architectures. ... Read more 》

While working on Bug#460620: ITA: gimmie – elegant desktop organizer, I noticed that I need to upgrade debian/menu to the new policy. Currently, gimmie uses Apps/Tools, but what should I use now? It does not fit into the other sections. Recommendations? Other important changes: * I am the new maintainer * Gmenu and sexy extensions are not built, instead the python-gmenu and python-sexy packages are used * Gimmie's extensions are compiled for Python 2.4 and Python 2.5 * debian/copyright uses the format defined at [http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat](http://wiki.debian.org/Proposals/CopyrightFormat) * The suspend and hibernations buttons are back again ([Commit](http://git.debian.org/?p=collab-maint/gimmie.git;a=commit;h=485f334993753f9afb98ed11e686abbe08abff36)) The package is maintained in a git repo in the collab-maint project, and can be viewed online using Gitweb. You can get the source from its repo at git://git.debian.org/git/collab-maint/gimmie.git ... Read more 》

Reading about the idea of pristine-deb, I actually noticed that using ar -rc file.deb debian-binary control.tar.gz data.tar.gz does not work, due to timestamps and other differences. I am currently working on a pristine-deb program which will workaround all these issues. It will be able to work with git repositories like pristine-tar and uses pristine-tar for control.tar.gz and data.tar.gz. I may also add a function to decompress all compressed files (like changelog.gz) and uses pristine-gz to compress this file again before adding it to the tarball. This may save some additional space. ... Read more 》

I’m currently working on a rewrite of debian-cd in Python. Although there is already deb-imgs-gen, I decided to start from scratch, because deb-imgs-gen is more than 1 year old. debimg’s main features are Speed debimg should be able to build netinst disks in less than 20 seconds Free Software This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. ... Read more 》