Blockers, blockers blockers. All KDE 4.3.5 packages blocked the new 4.4 ebuilds. Some propose to remove 4.3 KDE entries from world and world_sets but it was not there. So I ended up creating a binary buildhost to minimize downtime for my laptop. Also wit… more »

For a long time I've been sharing the Portage tree over NFS to my virtual servers. However NFS is not exactly firewall friendly and feels a bit dated. So I've been looking for other alternatives. Today I stumbled across GlusterFS and took it for a spin.… more »

I just managed to reboot one of the Xen servers I still admin, just by creating another domain:-/Running with old versions of xen-sources results in problems as seen above and with newer udev versions. For reference to those who havne't yet migrated… more »

Since Koon stopped maintaining GNAP I've been building updated tarballs for personal use a couple of times each year. One thing that has continously bugged me is that everything works out alright with Catalyst 2.0.1 and manual chroots but using later… more »

I just had an old Gentoo install to upgrade and quickly realized that it was easier said than done. There is no supported upgrade path for very old Portage versions. I quickly found darkside's blog post Gentoo: Tips to upgrade your really old installa… more »