The release of mrepo 0.8.6, with RHEL 4.7’s RHN/up2date code, has been announced by Dag Wieërs.
Some of the highlights include:
Support for RHEL5 and CentOS-5.
Added YaST Online Update support.
Added fuseiso support (root access no longer needed).
Added unionfs support to merge ISOs to a single tree.
Faster relinking of repositories.
Caching of directory indexes to prevent regenerating repositories.
Proxy-support for rhnget and gensystemid.
Added rhnget –list option for searching packages.
Added rhnget –filter option for selecting downloads.
Added rhnget –source option for downloading SRPMs from RHN.
01 Oct, 2008
Posted by: aqua In: Events
After almost a year of changes and improvements, the release of Solar version 1.0.0alpha2 has been announced. You can read more about 1.0.0alpha2 on Solar’s blog.
Lorenzo Alberton shares his thoughts on Zend Framework testing. He includes codes to emulate HTTP Calls. He used HTTP stub class instead to detach the models from the web services.
One of the unit testing best practices suggests to break dependencies, so you can test each component separately. The first problem that arises when you want to test controllers might be having a tighter control over the HTTP Request and Response objects.
Kore Nordmann shares a bookmark script on his blog today. He uses the said script for maintaining SSH accounts on various servers. It makes navigating on the shell much easier.
It took me a few minutes to figure out how to get such a thing working, because shell scripts normally open a sub shell, in which the commands are executed and is terminated afterwards.