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Updates to AUR packages

Don Harper — Tue, 09 Jun 2015 22:19:48 GMT

So, with the migration of the AUR to version 4, I looked at the 12 AUR packages I had created over the years which I have not looked at in a long, long time.

The list started out with:

chronicle - A simple blog compiler written in Perl
perl-leocharre-basename - Very basic filename string and path operations such as ext and paths
perl-leocharre-cli2 - Some quick help for writing cli scripts
perl-leocharre-debug - Debug subroutines
perl-leocharre-dir - Subroutines for general directory needs
perl-leocharre-strings - Combines string procedures I frequently use
perl-string-prettify - Subroutines to cleanup a filename and or garble for human eyes
perl-wordpress-api - Management of Wordpress API objects. Inherits WordPress::XMLRPC and all its methods
perl-wordpress-cli - Command line access to Wordpress
perl-wordpress-xmlrpc - API to Wordpress XML RPC calls
usbmount - Automatically mount and unmount USB mass storage devices
xlhttp - An Excel spreadsheet (.xls) and PowerPoint (.ppt) to HTML converter

In the end, I only kept xlhttp as I do not use the others anymore. Surprisingly enough, only one of the packages (chronicle) was out of date. I disowned all the others, so if you want, you can pick them up.

FreeBSD Challenge II, End Report

Don Harper — Fri, 06 Feb 2015 12:43:32 GMT

And, again, I hit something which is causing massive disk performance issues. That, and suspend/resume does not work on either laptop.

I would try to debug the issues, but that means learning a whole new set of tools, and I will not have time for a while. Next week, I am in week long meetings which will run late every day, and then I have to finish writing and present a training class the last week of the month. The hour or two I can spare will be far better spent for me by backup, re-installing ArchLinux than by starting to learn the tools. Yes, a bit of a cop-out, but I need the machines to do what I need to do. I will keep the servers FreeBSD, however, as it works great there.

I will revisit the issue of FreeBSD on the laptops when I either get new kit, or support for my models gets better.

Command-Line blog posts

Don Harper — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:05:00 GMT

Command-Line blog posts

So, it only seems fitting that I should talk about a command-line interface to posting on this blog. No, I do not mean using links or the like, but a way to post from the command line.

So, this post is being typed up in vim on my Fedora 8 laptop. I will use this great little tool I found called wppost to post. wwpost is part of the perl module WordPress::Post.

A brief summary of its commands are bellow:

       -c category, can be a list separated by commas, no spaces
-t title
-i description, main body of post, if it has a slash, it is interpreted as a file to slurp
like a text or html file
-D iso formatted date for post, can be left out
-T if there are image attachments, place them as thumbnails only, with link, not just resized

Some usage examples taken from the man page:

    Most basic of usage, (provided you have a ~/.wppost file)

wppost -t 'hi everyone' -i 'i just wanted to say hello'

If you want to specify two different categories:

wppost -t 'Another Apple' -i 'Apples are really great. I do love them so.' -c food,rant -D 20071231

If the body of the post is in a file

wppost -t 'title here' -i ./content.txt

If the content of the post is in a file and you want to use the file
name as the title

wppost -i ./Title_Here.txt

If you want to have file attachments:

wppost -t 'recent photos' -i 'these are recent pictures i took' ./*jpg

Pretty cool, huh?

Peace out!