Florent Thoumie

Since I may move to some other country and that I’d like my server to be a bit more tolerant wrt. disks crashes, I thought about having my FreeBSD system installed on a gvinum mirror.

After some nice readings like this one, it seemed to me that there was no easy way to do it.

As usual, [...]

Finally, my first post in the “Work” category. Not really to talk about my actual work though (three days left, I’ve spent some quality moments here but I’m not unhappy to leave).

I just sent my application for a Linux/Unix System Administrator job opening at Google EU Headquarter located in Dublin, Ireland and got this friendly [...]

Friday evening I left Paris (Beauvais actually) airport on a Ryanair flight to come to Dublin (Ireland) to visit a friend of mine. That was the first time I came to Ireland. Yesterday we did the tour of Dublin (Pubs, Temple Bar, Pedestrian Center) and left to walk on the beach in Killiney near Bono’s [...]

Some months ago, I set myself a perforce account to work on pkg_install with krion but I’ve been quite confused with the way things work compared to CVS (or Subversion which is quite the same).

Yesterday I decided to try it again, to actually work with it. I’ve finally successfully setup clients, branches and workspaces. I [...]

Since H2G2 was announced to be out this wednesday, I decided last Saturday to buy Douglas Adams’ HitchHiker’s Guide to the Galaxy book, to read it before seeing the movie.

I read it in two days (I usually don’t read much books, but I can’t help stopping reading them until the end). It’s a very fun [...]

I’ve been quite lazy these days. Since I’m mostly playing with Voyage Linux at work, I haven’t had much time to work on port since last week.

I’ve just added some bits to the documentation and some options already present in portupgrade which are preserve_libs (.so.* -> /usr/local/lib/compat/pkg at deinstall stage), keep_backup (not removing backup tarball [...]

Yeah, that’s true!

Colin Percival (cperciva) committed portsnap to base yesterday.

New features are (magic) random selection of the mirror and default http-pipelined fetching.

He added that he would MFC it to RELENG_6 / RELENG_6_0 if he has more than 50 testers. So, if you’re not using HEAD or portsnap from base, do the following :

1. alias ncvs=’cvs [...]