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	Committed to wmark/anzu.
	Have updated the #gentoo #binhost s yesterday, new readme http://bit.ly/cQuef6 in #overlay mirror at #github with addresses.
	My #SheevaPlug crashed today, first time in six months. Full #backup is due anyway, so I have attached the HDD to my workstation for it.
	It didn’t crash, the power supply of my #SheevaPlug fried. They didn’t use solid capacitors.
	Now my #SheevaPlug has a internal lead-fleece battery as built-in #UPS, protecting it for about 40min. *yay* (Like Google’s deployment.)

Tags: anzu, ossdl overlay, SheevaPlug

Unlike Apache httpd server Nginx has no ebuilds which let you select which modules you want to have installed with it. Yet.

On last Saturday I have written an eclass to simplify maintaining Nginx ebuilds and added a new Portage variable NGINX_MODULES to USE_EXPAND. In other words, from that on you can select Nginx modules like for Apache. As an example, Read more »

Tags: ebuild, Gentoo, know-how, nginx, ossdl overlay

The nice thing about Gentoo is that you can extend its port-like “portage” system by third-party trees. They are called ‘overlays‘ to the official main tree. I have started mine about four years ago after having used Gentoo for more than three years, then. A lot has changed, but something is still missing – and that’s my OSSDL overlay meant for.

The overlay has ebuilds for Read more »

Tags: ebuild, Gentoo, GNU/Linux, ossdl overlay, portage