Published on Thu 22 November 2018
I wanted to setup my Wi-Fi hotspot (running Fedora 29 on a A20 Olimex Lime board) so it automatically updates itself every night.
DNF provides a way to run offline distro upgrades, from one version of Fedora to the next, but for routine upgrades within a Fedora release.
PackageKit has …
Published on Fri 26 October 2018
One of the challenges when writing unit and integration tests, is to avoid interactions between them.
Sometimes a test relies on being run in order after another test, because the first one sets up some environment the second one reuses. Other times some test randomly failing in mysterious ways, because …
Published on Fri 21 September 2018
When working on software, it is quite common to work on multiple branches in parallel. But sometimes, you have a long build job running, and you can't checkout a different branch to work on something else in the meantime, as that could impact the build.
This happens to me all …
Published on Sat 04 August 2018
I have been working with BuildStream quite a bit lately, mostly on the next Freedesktop SDK.
BuildStream is still changing quickly, so upstream recommends installing from Git.
Eventually though, we will want to have packages of the latest release in all major Linux distributions. To that end, I've just packaged …
Published on Thu 26 July 2018
Edit on 2018-10-03: the dashboard moved to https://mbridon.pages.gitlab.gnome.org/flatpak-master-dashboard/.
Over at GNOME, we build an SDK and lots of apps as flatpaks, directly from Git master. Unfortunately, the builds are quite regularly broken, and need a lot of baby-sitting to fix issues.
I used to …
Published on Tue 10 July 2018
Someone asked in #flatpak whether it was possible to package a web server.
I knew it was possible, but was curious as to how exactly.
So I wrote a trivial "web server":
#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/python3 -m http.server 8000
And a Flatpak manifest to package that script:
{
"id …Published on Sun 01 July 2018
Note: This is a new thing I'm trying: write a monthly report of my contributions to Free Software. Let's see how long that lasts. (Three months in a row! I've never blogged so regularly! 😅)
This month I didn't contribute much to free software, because I took some time off and …
Published on Fri 01 June 2018
Note: This is a new thing I'm trying: write a monthly report of my contributions to Free Software. Let's see how long that lasts. (I'm surprised I've been able to do it two months in a row)
Unemployment is great so far, giving me a lot of time to contribute …
Published on Fri 25 May 2018
Je suis récemment devenu membre du Laboratoire Ouvert Villeurbannais, un hackerspace du coin.
Entre autres choses, il y a une découpeuse laser, et j'avais très envie de m'amuser avec.
N'ayant pas spécialement de projet utile pour le moment, j'ai décidé de commencer par une décoration simple.
La tradition à Hong …
Published on Tue 01 May 2018
Note: This is a new thing I'm trying: write a monthly report of my contributions to Free Software. Let's see how long that lasts. (my bets are on doing it only this once)
Being unemployed, I've had a bit more time than usual to contribute to a few different projects …