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I have been fiddling with Dorrie lately. Dorrie is a web interface to create Fedora spins, remixes and installation media. But working with Dorrie requires one to have a Fedora repository at disposal if one has to build Live ISOs. I rule the possibility of downloading packages from the internet for testing. You need to have a local repository for testing it in a nice and efficient way. I tried to create a dummy Fedora repository with 0-byte .rpm files and tried to mock livecd-creator, but I failed. I forgot that livecd-creator installs the packages during the process of creating a Live ISO. Nevertheless, this attempt was not without any result. I fixed and updated Dorrie’s code to handle offline repositories. ...

I got a nice and long review for my first package of xnoise :). You can read the review at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=586433 I made the suggested changes – 4c4 < Summary: A media player for gtk+ — Summary: A media player for GTK+ 6c6 < License: GPLv2 — License: GPLv2+ 12c12,14 < Source0: xnoise-0.1.2.tar.gz — # make dist #to generate xnoise-0.1.2.tar.bz2 Source0: xnoise-%{version}.tar.bz2 15,16c17,20 < BuildArch: i686 < BuildRequires: vala, vala-devel, intltool, libtool, autogen, automake >= 1.11, gnome-common, gtk2-devel, sqlite-devel, taglib-devel, unique-devel, gstreamer-devel, gstreamer-plugins-base-devel, gettext, desktop-file-utils — #BuildArch: noarch BuildRequires: intltool, libtool, autogen, automake >= 1.11 BuildRequires: gnome-common, gtk2-devel, sqlite-devel, taglib-devel BuildRequires: unique-devel, gstreamer-devel, gstreamer-plugins-base-devel, gettext, desktop-file-utils 18c22 < Requires: gstreamer, gstreamer-plugins-base, gtk2, gettext — #Requires: gstreamer, gstreamer-plugins-base, gtk2 21,32c25,27 < Xnoise is a media player for gtk+ < Xnoise is written in vala < Xnoise can play every kind of audio/video data that gstreamer can handle < < #%package devel < #Summary: Development files for %{name} < #Group: Development/Libraries < #License: GPLv2 < #Requires: %{name} = %{version}-%{release} < #Requires: pkgconfig < #%description devel < #Development packages for Xnoise — Xnoise is a media player written in vala for GTK+. Xnoise can play every kind of audio/video data that gstreamer can handle. Xnoise uses a tracklist centric design and uses a hierarchical tree structure media browser along with plugin interface. Xnoise is always running in a single instance,so that music files that are associated with it, will always be added to the tracklist instead of starting a new instance. 67,70c62 < %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/xnoise-1.0.pc < #%files devel < #%{_libdir}/pkgconfig/xnoise-1.0.pc < #%{_libdir}/xnoise — %exclude %{_libdir}/pkgconfig/xnoise-1.0.pc 74,75c66,69 < * Tue Apr 27 2010 rtnpro rtnpro@gmail.com 0.1.2 < – RPM package xnoise — ...

I became desperate yesterday night to do some useful things, anything. Had a long offline Puja Holidays. I was struggling to understand “How to write Makefiles”, and yesterday it clicked and I ended up writing a Makefile for the ongoing fedX project. Though the makefile which I wrote is not that great, but I have a start now. Committed the changes to the fedX repository at http://gitorious.org/~rtnpro/fedx/rtnpros-fedx-clone/ It was around 4:00 AM in the morning already. Made some changes in my gitorious project clones. Apart from that, I was trying to download the rpmfusion repositories for Fedora 11. I was using rsync on multiple screens for the purpose. But again and again, rsync used to stop downloading after working for sometime. Then I tried a Firefox addon “DownThemAll” and was very happy to see it work. All I needed was to browse the repository page listing all the packages, right click and select DownThemAll. And then I just needed to select where I want to save the downloaded files and start it. It downloads multiple files simultaneously and does not halt when one of the files cannot be downloaded, rather it pauses it and moves to others. It also supports resume, and has an option to skip the already downloaded files. ...

On 14 July, 2009, me ( Ratnadeep Debnath aka rtnpro) and Meejanur Rahaman ( aka meejan) and Kishan Goyal were heading towards Barasat University. Kishan took a bus from Howrah at around 8:30 AM and we started from Ruby Hospital at around 9:30 AM to Barasat. We hoped that we’ll be reaching the university at most by 11:30 AM and will have enough time to work. Our bust took a turn from Daak Bunglow. We told the conductor that we need to go to KaziPara, so the conductor said that he’ll drop us a bit ahead. We got down, enquired about the university, and no one seemed to have heard of it. Then we enquired about KaziPara, and then took a van. Then we were amidst a big traffic congestion. We were taking to Taki Road KaziPara, where we came to know that we came off the path to the university and came to now from the folks that there was another KaziPara at Jasha Road. We took a van again to Jasha Road. When we got down there, we found that this was not also the place we wanted to go. We enquired about the university from the folks out there, they were all dumb about that. ...

Today, 13th July, 2009, we ( me , i.e., Ratnadeep Debnath aka rtnpro, Kishan Goyal, Meejanur Rahaman, Harsh Verma, Chandana Boral) led by Indranil Das Gupta and Stephanie Das Gupta, went to West Bengal State University at Barasat, Kolkata. We started at around 10:30 AM from Ruby Hospital, and after a long journey ( changing two buses, then riding on a van, with a few drizzles on the way), we finally reached Barasat University at around 12:30 PM. ...