grml development blog

I updated and fixed several stuff in grml-etc, grml-files and grml-scripts. Release 0.3 is coming closer. Please report your wishes/bugfixes now!

Finally we have working 'nocolor' and 'log' bootparams. nocolor disables colorized output while booting, log starts bootlogd and logs all stderr-output to an extra file. (nocolor isn't just for pragmatists but avoids color sequences in the bootlog ;-))

Matthias and me wrote a small shellscript namend fex to extract archives without thinking too much. ;-) I just added it to grml-scripts.

BTW: Please test grml-muttng and provide me feedback!

I just wrote the script grml-muttng, based on grml-mutt to let users create a basic configuration for the mailclient mutt-ng.
The current grml-ISO has 702 MB, I'm thinking of dropping wmaker and adding muttng instead. What's your opinion?

I added several packages since release 0.2 to my grml-chroot. As usual I try to create an ISO with exactly 700 MB. My last ISO had 710MB.

# apt-get remove --purge printconf foomatic-db-gimp-print

- the resultat was an ISO with still about 705MB. So:

# apt-get remove --purge autotrace libautotrace3 libmagick++6 libplot2 libpstoedit0

I hope to get a 700MB version now. Notice: If you have any special wishes on software which should be removed/included please let me know, last chance for grml 0.3. :-)

I wanted to add ACME::Bleach, ACME::EyeDrops and ACME::Smirch to grml. So I had to create my first perl debian packages. It couldn't be easier:

% dh-make-perl --cpan Acme::Smirch --build

I added szs2nd and sti.pl to grml-etc (0.2-13). Those tools improve the statusline of windowmanager WMI. szs2nd is loaded by default now.

Updated /etc/skel/.zshrc and /etc/zsh/zshrc as well.

Current ISO build 0.2-9b works like a charme. :-)

Jim Dio provided a mirror in california for grml, thanks Jim! See download-section @ grml.org for details.
BTW: the TUG-mirror has a downtime due to problems with harddisks, according to the admin-team it should be up again at the end of the week.

grml@grml ~ % units
You have: 1000 km
You want: miles
* 621.37119
/ 0.001609344

I stumbled upon schedtool via ck's audio hints and just packaged it. As usual it's available via the grml-repository. Seems to work:

root@grml ~ # schedtool $$
PID 1903: PRIO 0, POLICY N: SCHED_NORMAL, NICE 0
root@grml ~ #

I've added MinUnit to package grml-templates. MinUnit is a minimal unit testing framework for C, see www.jera.com/techinfo/jtns/jtn002.html for more details.

SFS-KNOPPIX is a kind of KNOPPIX which boots form Internet with a cloop on SFS(Self-certifying File System). It requires small boot loader (20MB image) and offers full KNOPPIX functions, Autoconfig, etc. SFS-KNOPPIX makes possible to change a cloop file (root file system of KNOPPIX) at boot time. It means we don't need to burn extra CD for many KNOPPIX offshoots.