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Newer Entries »Debian etch and “The following packages have been kept back…”
Sunday, February 15th, 2009
Posted in: System engineering, debian 4, lenny, open source.
Just for the record: It seems the new Debian Lenny release is close at hand.
Apparently a few packages for the lenny release already made it into the productive repositories, which causes them to be held back by apt-get upgrade:
apt-get dist-upgrade -V
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Calculating upgrade... Done
The following packages have been kept back:
libapache2-mod-php5 (... => 5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny2)
libperl5.8 (... => 5.8.8-11.1+lenny1)
php-pear (... => 5.2.6.dfsg.1-1+lenny2)
...
apt-get dist-upgrade, which usually resolves this issue by upgrading the system to the most recent release does not work yet, since lenny was not released so far.
No CommentsRepository search for maven artifacts
Monday, November 10th, 2008
Posted in: java, maven 2, open source.
Most of the maven users know the site www.mvnrepository.com which provides a nice lookup of maven artefacts.
Now there is also a newer site, www.mvnbrowser.com which currently performs better than mvnrepository. In addition, you can lookup repositories actually containing your desired artifact – now that’s sweet!
Facts on open source projects for decision-makers
Friday, October 17th, 2008
Posted in: QA, System architecture, hibernate, ohloh.net, open source.
Summary
Finding useful information about open source software projects can be tedious – especially when trying to find facts that your customers understand.
ohloh.net provides excellent, comparable meta information for open source projects and should be on every decision-makers favorites list.
Why this software and not another?
I often find the need to justify the use of a specific open source software. Why is is better than another, competing open source software? How much better is the community support? How many supporters does it have? How active is the project and how much effort was spend on it’s development? How about metrics for the code, and how do you compare software in general?
Those are about the most important questions i have to answer.
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