Whether you’re just learning git or want to learn a new trick or two, git ready is a pretty good place to go. The listing of articles by task goal instead of command explanation should be especially helpful to the newbies.
The title of this blog is, currently, “Geek on Two Wheels”. Some of my loyal readers (all 3 of you) may have noticed that, although there has been plenty of geeking, the quantity of two-wheeling related posts have been, in the past few months, zero.
So, lets remedy this situation, starting with a photo of my brand new Remedy fullface helmet. (See what I did there? I’ll be here all day, folks.)
I managed to win this beauty this past Saturday at Sharpey’s Cycles‘ Season Start Up extravaganza, featuring live DJ, food, prize draws as well as Ryan Leech’s always-amazing Trials Show, with proceeds going to BC Children’s Hospital. Here’s cheers to Jimi, Jordie, and the rest of the gang at Sharpey’s for running an awesome shop, and continued healing vibes to Ryder for making a speedy recovery.
Despite the rain, spontaneous blizzards, and generally crazy weather in the past couple of weeks, I’ve actually been riding more frequently in the last two months than most of last season. I’ve finally started to do regular short morning rides—like I’ve been saying I would for the last few years—and it’s been a blast. Cycling has been good also, and I’m waiting for some cooperation from the local weather to do a ~60km group ride around Metro Vancouver.
So, if anyone reading this wants in on the group cycling trips, drop me a line. And, if you’ve ever wanted to get into mountain biking, I will gladly lend you my Sasquatch and take you on a tour around Burnaby Mountain’s trails.
Of my three Gentoo machines, two of them are running a rather scary combination of stable and unstable packages and an overlay or two via layman, sprinkled with ebuilds gathered from Gentoo bugzilla along with a few of my own. It’s become a maintenance nightmare, especially since the non-layman ebuilds are not under version control. I’ve finally fixed that today with a portage overlay of my own.
My server is set up as the master, serving the overlay to the desktop, laptop (which is set up to emerge packages only at home, where I have a local distfiles mirror and distcc to the Core i7 machine is availble) as well as itself. Since all of my git interactions with the server is done over ssh, the layman URL is pointed to a cgit location so that it can be pulled without special access.
Finally, the whole shebang is mirrored on yangman.ca so that anyone can access it. The public overlay list is described at http://yangman.ca/gentoo-overlays.xml.
It’s a rather convoluted set up, but it allows the widest access to my overlays without pointing the Internet at my home server.
The first packages to make into the overlay are gnome-mplayer and gecko-mediaplayer, giving them the proper version bump love.
Hopefully, this will bring some sanity to my various /usr/local/portage.