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So what has Baden Powell and a Chameleon got to do with Bongo? The answer is:

Deb, deb, deb

Bad joke I know, but I've got a load more where that came from so don't tempt me. Basically it's two fold (a) my curiosity to build .deb in the OBS and (b) to help Jonny out with bandwidth (utilising openSUSE's global mirrors), I've got Debian Etch packages in my OBS repository. Currently only x86 only (x86_64 Debian and Ubuntu hosts haven't been implemented yet), Ubuntu builds are going to take a bit longer as I need to work out a few issues.

I have both M2 stable (or as stable as it gets at the moment) and unstable builds from svn, just like my RPMs. To get hold of these scouts add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/FunkyPenguin/ Debian_4_Etch/

Please let me know if you encounter any issues using any of my packages. I'll leave it up to you how you contact me, here are a few:

Mailing lists, comment on this blog, using the Meebo box on this blog, IRC or a message in a bottle (the latter may take a while as I could be deep in conversation with my coconut friend).

So what has Baden Powell and a Chameleon got to do with Bongo? The answer is:

Deb, deb, deb

Bad joke I know, but I've got a load more where that came from so don't tempt me. Basically it's two fold (a) my curiosity to build .deb in the OBS and (b) to help Jonny out with bandwidth (utilising openSUSE's global mirrors), I've got Debian Etch packages in my OBS repository. Currently only x86 only (x86_64 Debian and Ubuntu hosts haven't been implemented yet), Ubuntu builds are going to take a bit longer as I need to work out a few issues.

I have both M2 stable (or as stable as it gets at the moment) and unstable builds from svn, just like my RPMs. To get hold of these scouts add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/FunkyPenguin/ Debian_4_Etch/

Please let me know if you encounter any issues using any of my packages. I'll leave it up to you how you contact me, here are a few:

Mailing lists, comment on this blog, using the Meebo box on this blog, IRC or a message in a bottle (the latter may take a while as I could be deep in conversation with my coconut friend).

So what has Baden Powell and a Chameleon got to do with Bongo? The answer is:

Deb, deb, deb

Bad joke I know, but I've got a load more where that came from so don't tempt me. Basically it's two fold (a) my curiosity to build .deb in the OBS and (b) to help Jonny out with bandwidth (utilising openSUSE's global mirrors), I've got Debian Etch packages in my OBS repository. Currently only x86 only (x86_64 Debian and Ubuntu hosts haven't been implemented yet), Ubuntu builds are going to take a bit longer as I need to work out a few issues.

I have both M2 stable (or as stable as it gets at the moment) and unstable builds from svn, just like my RPMs. To get hold of these scouts add the following to /etc/apt/sources.list:

deb http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/FunkyPenguin/ Debian_4_Etch/

Please let me know if you encounter any issues using any of my packages. I'll leave it up to you how you contact me, here are a few:

Mailing lists, comment on this blog, using the Meebo box on this blog, IRC or a message in a bottle (the latter may take a while as I could be deep in conversation with my coconut friend).

This should hopefully be the last name change for the RPMs.

With the release of M2 and Jonny's DEBs a standardisation on package names/version was decided. So as of now the stable release of bongo will be versioned 0.2.0 and the unstable will be 0.2.0+svn(revision number).

So when using the repos, BE CAREFUL when upgrading. Choose carefully, you have been warned.

I've just come back from a great weekend with the wife and kids, and found that the LRL team had mailed me and appologised for not letting me know sooner:



The Bongo BoF is on , I'm not 100% sure when though as I haven't been told, all I know is I'm doing it. So please, please try and come up to LugRadioLive and attend the BoF. It will be a great opportunity for community members to meet up, and also try and grow the community.

One thing I would like to do with the BoF is to record the session on video, so if anyone is attending and has a camcorder that can easily transfer the video off (I have a Sony DCR-IP7E and it is a real bitch to get the video off even on proprietary OSes) I would be most appreciated.

So to sum up -

For those that haven't taken the plunge and installed bongo yet (shame on you), and are curious as to what it really looks like you can have a peek at my Bongo Album. It isn't overly fancy or anything, but I think it is functional. Basically I've taken screenshots of most of bongo in use including Alex Hixon's sexy admin interface. Please feel free to have a look and let me know if I have missed anything out.

There are some shots of Hawkeye before it received its A-List Celebrity facelift, so you can see there is progress being made

I've been looking at changing ForceV's website for a while, I've been running Jaws on it for a while but have had a mediocre experience. Good to start off with, but then there were too many bugs and I was getting battered by spam The latter was the turn off point for me. I was on the look out for something that would facilitate my ambitions for the site - effectively make it into a portal of sorts.

I was reading Planet Maemo and noticed that they were going to be moving Maemo's site to Midgard, and I had never really heard of it. So i wanted to try it out, but unfortunately they didn't have any packages for SUSE (well they did but they were old ) so i tried the source tarballs. This didn't work for some reason, so I thought i could try and build packages - after all I do have the use of the OBS.

So I now have RPMs built - currently only for SUSE, but I plan on getting Fedora and Mandriva added pretty soon. They aren't 100% there yet either, but thanks to Piotras, SmallOne and jval on #midgard I'm getting there. To get the packages head over to my repository and choose your distro. If you use YaST / SMART or similar you can specify the home:FunkyPenguin.repo file. As always any issues let me know and I'll try and help.

I've been looking at changing ForceV's website for a while, I've been running Jaws on it for a while but have had a mediocre experience. Good to start off with, but then there were too many bugs and I was getting battered by spam The latter was the turn off point for me. I was on the look out for something that would facilitate my ambitions for the site - effectively make it into a portal of sorts.

I was reading Planet Maemo and noticed that they were going to be moving Maemo's site to Midgard, and I had never really heard of it. So i wanted to try it out, but unfortunately they didn't have any packages for SUSE (well they did but they were old ) so i tried the source tarballs. This didn't work for some reason, so I thought i could try and build packages - after all I do have the use of the OBS.

So I now have RPMs built - currently only for SUSE, but I plan on getting Fedora and Mandriva added pretty soon. They aren't 100% there yet either, but thanks to Piotras, SmallOne and jval on #midgard I'm getting there. To get the packages head over to my repository and choose your distro. If you use YaST / SMART or similar you can specify the home:FunkyPenguin.repo file. As always any issues let me know and I'll try and help.

It's taken me long enough to pull my fat finger put of my arse and sort out a BOF for LRL07. I've checked with the Lug Radio guys and gals and the topic is going to be a general one covering Bongo, so I've requested to do a BOF that includes a run down on who and what the project is, our aims, and where people can help. Also I'd like to demo our current release.

I would appreciate it if people could get the word out that this BOF is planned, and try and get as many people there. Once I have confirmation on which day and at what time I'll let it be known.

It's taken me long enough to pull my fat finger put of my arse and sort out a BOF for LRL07. I've checked with the Lug Radio guys and gals and the topic is going to be a general one covering Bongo, so I've requested to do a BOF that includes a run down on who and what the project is, our aims, and where people can help. Also I'd like to demo our current release.

I would appreciate it if people could get the word out that this BOF is planned, and try and get as many people there. Once I have confirmation on which day and at what time I'll let it be known.

I just remembered to check the OBS and see how the packages were now that they got added to the serve:mail group, and low and behold they're good So as of now the "Stable" packages have moved. The wiki has been updated so please check the documentation for your respective distro in the Installation Section.

The following distros and architectures now have packages available for them:

• Gentoo
  
• Mandriva 2006 - i586
  
• Mandriva 2007 - i586
  
• Fedora Core 5 - i386 / x86_64
  
• Fedora Core 6 - i386 / x86_64
  
• SUSE 10.0 - i586 / x86_64
  
• SUSE 10.1 - i586 / x86_64
  
• openSUSE 10.2 - i586 / x86_64
  
• SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 - i586 / x86_64
  
• RHEL 4 / CentOS 4 - i386 (Still not really working)
  
• RHEL 5 / CentOS 5 - i386 / x86_64 (Uses FC6 packages)
  

I know Ubuntu and Debian is still missing, hopefully soon. Also OpenSolaris will hopefully be available - no guarantees, if you hadn't noticed I've had a crappy time getting Bongo to work

The Un-Stable packages will be a bit longer as I need to do a bit of rejigging with my repo on the OBS, another announcement will be made when it's ready.

I just remembered to check the OBS and see how the packages were now that they got added to the serve:mail group, and low and behold they're good So as of now the "Stable" packages have moved. The wiki has been updated so please check the documentation for your respective distro in the Installation Section.

The following distros and architectures now have packages available for them:

• Gentoo
  
• Mandriva 2006 - i586
  
• Mandriva 2007 - i586
  
• Fedora Core 5 - i386 / x86_64
  
• Fedora Core 6 - i386 / x86_64
  
• SUSE 10.0 - i586 / x86_64
  
• SUSE 10.1 - i586 / x86_64
  
• openSUSE 10.2 - i586 / x86_64
  
• SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 - i586 / x86_64
  
• RHEL 4 / CentOS 4 - i386 (Still not really working)
  
• RHEL 5 / CentOS 5 - i386 / x86_64 (Uses FC6 packages)
  

I know Ubuntu and Debian is still missing, hopefully soon. Also OpenSolaris will hopefully be available - no guarantees, if you hadn't noticed I've had a crappy time getting Bongo to work

The Un-Stable packages will be a bit longer as I need to do a bit of rejigging with my repo on the OBS, another announcement will be made when it's ready.

Why is it that people always forget the good side of things and always focus on the less than happier items? Just listned to some podcasts that have been building up whilst working in Amsterdam, and one of them was LUG Radio Season4 Episode9.

I normally enjoy listening to LUG Radio, but they appear to have taken the stance of bashing Novell and all things related to them including SUSE/openSUSE as a result of the announcement with Microsoft. As it was the last episode for 2006, they had a "Predictions" segment, one of the predictions was that there will be only 2/3 major community distrobutions - Ubuntu (surprise, surprise!), Fedora and Debian. They reckon that openSUSE will dissapear as Novell's focus is purely enterprise related.

As they like to say on the show CHIN! Do they forget that SUSE has been around since about 1996, and has a huge community attached to it. They also reckon that if Novell ceased support for openSUSE the community would not be able to pick the baton up and and run with it. Sorry but a definate pile of crud.

So Novell ceased sponsorship of Hula, that doesn't mean they are moving away from community projects, they have managed to get Messaging Architects to take on the sponsorship role and keep the project going albeit in a slightly different direction that some would have liked.

Bongo has managed to pick the baton up when Novell couldn't give a quick enough response to requests, as a new fledgling project I think Bongo has done pretty damn well. We now have a superb looking Wiki - thanks to Sebastian for the final artwork and Luis for making some good comments on the initial work; Michel for setting up the forum; Jonny for doing the documentation; Alex and Patrick for hacking (more hackers required ); Alex for his leadership; but most importantly ALL parties involved regardless of their technical abilities.

So in a nutshell LUG Radio - Kiss your chin as you're spouting so much bull!

Not something I like to advertise, but hey I'm not infallible

Unfortunately there are some issues with some distros This is partly to do with autotools, hopefully a fix will be implemented soon. So don't harass me.
The packages available from the Build Service are:

• Fedora Core 5 - x86 only
  
• SUSE Linux Enterprise 10 - x86 and x86_64
  
• SUSE 10.1 - x86 and x86_64
  
• openSUSE 10.2 - x86 and x86_64
  

I will hopefully have a build for the following shortly:

• Mandriva 2007 - x86 only
  
• CentOS / RHEL 4 - x86 only
  
• Fedora Core 6 - x86 only
  

I'll advertise when the packages are done, and where they are hosted.

Further to my earlier post, Lance asked how to add the repository to his available list.. This is just a simple guide without pretty pictures, the are more detailed and prettier instructions on the openSUSE Wiki. I will endeavour to get a better guide up, it will probably be on the wiki rather than here.

From the command line (as root):

rug service-add http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/FunkyPenguin/[YourDistro] --type=ZYPP "FunkyPenguin-Bongo" or [whatever you would like to call it]

In YaST:
Select Software > Installation Source > Add > HTTP
For Server Name put
software.opensuse.org/
For Directory put
download/home:/FunkyPenguin/[YourDistro]

From ZEN Updater:
Select Configure > Add Service > Select either ZYPP or Auto detect for the Service Type. Enter the following for the Service URI: http://software.opensuse.org/download/home:/FunkyPenguin/[YourDistro]. Enter FunkyPenguin-Bongo or [whatever you would like to call it] for the Service Name.

Or you could use SMART and the .repo file and open the file from within SMART or use one of the above options from within SMART.

If anyone uses any of the other package managers, please let me know how to use it with the repo.

Well I've finally pulled a finger out and got some RPMs for Bongo out
I have expanded the distros built by the openSUSE Build Service in comparison to what I had for Hula. The distros that I am building for via the service are:

• Fedora Core 4
  
• Fedora Core 5
  
• Mandriva 2006
  
• openSUSE Factory
  
• openSUSE 10.2
  
• SUSE 10.1
  
• SUSE 10.0
  
• SUSE 9.3
  
• SUSE Linux Enterprise 10
  
• SUSE Linux Enterprise 9

All packages are signed with the following key.

To get the packages please see here and select the distro of your choice. You can configure your package manager to get the latest package automatically by using the "home:FunkyPenguin.repo" file.
Please let me know if you have any issues, also be a bit patient while the packages get built.

Well I've finally pulled a finger out and got some RPMs for Bongo out
I have expanded the distros built by the openSUSE Build Service in comparison to what I had for Hula. The distros that I am building for via the service are:

• Fedora Core 4
  
• Fedora Core 5
  
• Mandriva 2006
  
• openSUSE Factory
  
• openSUSE 10.2
  
• SUSE 10.1
  
• SUSE 10.0
  
• SUSE 9.3
  
• SUSE Linux Enterprise 10
  
• SUSE Linux Enterprise 9

All packages are signed with the following key.

To get the packages please see here and select the distro of your choice. You can configure your package manager to get the latest package automatically by using the "home:FunkyPenguin.repo" file.
Please let me know if you have any issues, also be a bit patient while the packages get built.