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08:01.55Mohanmorning!
08:25.06mindbendrmorning
08:40.00halimorning
08:59.42Mohanhowtoforge.com is down ?
09:13.27AndyMillarthe internet is down ;)
09:13.55z00daxMohan: good thing, howtoforge is a mess
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09:29.46Mohanz00dax: I wouldn't say every article is perfect, but atleast it gives an exposure of concepts which can be done.
09:32.29MohanThere are few articles, which explains certain method of doing things. which are not known to everybody in the field.
09:32.42z00daxsome of the things are acually done in a way that it will break your machine
09:33.01z00daxthe ones I have a problem with is when they seem to get it right for the user, but put him in a hole that he can never really get out of easily
09:34.56Mohanhmm true, I remember the centos kernel compilation howto which says do not follow howotoforge.com method.
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09:36.08Mohans/I remember/I still remember/
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10:22.57DiscordianUKeeep
10:24.32DiscordianUKI can undoubtedly break things on every known distro
10:25.10DiscordianUKCustom kernels aren't supported on CentOS
10:31.11halithey sort of are, as long as you follow centos build procedures and don't try to do a stock 2.6.31
10:31.42haliwe've rolled a few custom centos kernels with some tweaks (like for multipathing and things)
10:31.53halibut built from centos src rpms
10:32.01DiscordianUKwell yes
10:33.14DiscordianUKCentOS kernels typically != kernel.org ones
10:33.15haliit's still annoying to see how many people don't get the rhel methodology
10:33.39haliwith people complaining about the version being old and with bugs, lacking the backport understanding
10:33.51DiscordianUKQuite so
10:33.59halihttpd is version x and bug z was patched in version x+1 blabla
10:34.29DiscordianUKaye
10:57.58ChoHagIt's not just rhel.
10:58.51DiscordianUKmost distros backport
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12:06.58z00daxhali: all this 'pci' testing using s/w that checks for versions only isnt helping either
12:07.21z00daxthere are a few dozen emails to the centos security expander about that - and some from large'is people like mcafee and symantec
12:07.34z00daxthe sort of names many small-medium biz people tend to just trust
12:08.23halithere was an interesting q&a session at redhat summit about this
12:08.58haliand what the distribution plan for alternative newer versions of stuff was
12:09.02haliespecially php
12:09.09haliabout 10 people nagged about the old php version in rhel5
12:09.23haliand suggest they had another less-supported channel on rhn
12:10.42z00daxslippery slope
12:11.33halirhex :)
12:11.38haliredhat express channel
12:11.42haligood name imo
12:12.06halithen again they sort of did that with XFS
12:12.18halimaking it available as a separate channel and only supported in a few regions
12:12.23haliand not even fully supported
12:12.36dick_turpinr e c Use a rec you know it makes sense ;-)
12:55.05ChoHagwtf?
12:55.10ChoHagCheesy adverts while I'm on hold?
12:57.20ChoHagNot just normal adverts either - it was people having a conversation.
12:57.27ChoHagNo that's not going to cause any confusion on the phone.
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13:09.02Armand\o/
13:19.46dick_turpinYou think that's bad try being on hold with ESET Nod32 they play Anti-Virus songs :-( http://www.eset.com/company/funstuff/Malware%20Blues.mp3
13:20.37Armandhehe
13:29.59dick_turpinHere's the rest of them if you want to torture a friend or something http://www.eset.com/company/fun_stuff.php
13:31.29ArmandI'll check that later. :D
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13:52.02ChoHagDoes anybody use an umbrella company and have any (anti-)recommendations?
13:52.56antiphaseThey should be coming back into the shops soon, with the impending autumn rain
13:53.27ChoHagHow did I know it would be antiphase who'd say something like that eh?
13:54.17antiphaseDoes this mean that your failure to get a permanent job means you'll be unleashing your mad contrating powahs onto the unsuspecting public>
13:54.35ChoHagThat's one way of putting it.
13:55.04ChoHagI'm still after permanent work, but a contract came along first.
13:56.03Armandhas a job now. o/
13:56.17ChoHaghas one too, next week.
13:56.29antiphaseI'll see you on Monday then
13:56.50ArmandI'm starting with a stock-takers on the 4th. :D
13:58.22ChoHagWho, me?
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14:05.01ChoHagHeh. Liberty Bishop have a list of languages to view their site in, which just direct you to google's translater.
14:05.06ChoHagtranslator
14:06.22MohanI have 2 svn repos, repo1_dev, repo1_qa, when version is closed on repo1_dev i want all the files on it merged to repo1_qa
14:06.54MohanIt will be done by the postcommit hook script, whats the best way to merge 2 diff repos
14:07.23Mohanrepo1_qa will not be empty it contains previous files from repo1_dev
14:08.04z00daxif you know what point you want to merge from on both sides, you can build a patch and just apply that to the other place
14:08.15z00daxalthough, i think there is something odd going on if you need to sync code between two places like that.
14:08.38z00daxare you sure they are two different repo's and not ( how I'd have thought one would do this ) 2 nodes on the same repo
14:09.07antiphasedetects a candidate for today's "ur doin it rong"
14:09.40MohanIts on the same server running 2 repos, I don't care about the existing files on repo1_qa but i dont want to delete them as well
14:10.08z00daxif they are commit'd - they dont get deleted, they just move to a historic commit
14:10.15z00dax( if you do indeed delete them from the patch )
14:10.37MohanI just want to leave the files to be there on repo1_qa, and import all the files on repo1_dev as the last version
14:10.59Mohanyeah i understand that, commit wont delete the existing files.
14:11.20antiphaseIsn't the point of having a repository that you have one of them?
14:11.25Mohanantiphase: why don't you do something better and help me to do it right ?
14:11.36antiphaseAt this point, I suspect it's far too late
14:11.42z00daxI'm wondering if you are using complexity to recreate the idea of tag's
14:11.45antiphaseSo you'll have to bodge it
14:12.40antiphaseIt's always better to ask advice early, rather than working out a crackpot plan and asking for implementation help :P
14:13.15Mohanwhat they wanted is svn based web folder sync so that they can run svn update on the remote folder to update to the latest files
14:13.47z00daxMohan: ok, that works. where did the second repo come from
14:13.48Mohaneverything is fine apart from onething there comes a point once version is closed on dev_repo they want all the files to be moved to qa_repo
14:15.00Mohanz00dax: do you remember I did ask you about /svn-repo/repo{1,2,3} setup once
14:15.07z00daxI'm guessing all you need at that stage is just a TAG in the same repo
14:15.15z00daxMohan: yes, i remember telling you its a bad idea :D
14:15.59z00daxsvn://hostname/svn/devel/ and svn://hostname/svn/qa/ might be two nodes on the same repo ( svn://hostname/svn/ )
14:16.13Mohanyeah I know, but didnt want to make huge changes in existing setup.
14:17.03z00daxif you want to move code or files between two svn repo's - your choices are a bit limited to creating patches or kluding around with .svn hackery.
14:17.20z00daxpatching tends to start creaking when you also have non-text content
14:17.48z00daxif you can locak devel-repo, you could do a manual svnsync to the qa repo
14:17.53Mohanthe best thing is to create a tag release and update it on remote folder for qa?
14:18.34z00daxyeah, if you can use tag's in the same repo - do that, make life a lot easier, and you retain context and history for components in the same place
14:19.31z00daxstretches and gets ready for $meeting
14:20.04MohanIts like live,qa and dev 3 stage setup, so the easiest way i guess is to use trunk for dev and branches for qa and tags for live setup
14:20.46MohanThe hardest part here is making people adapt to this new structure :(
14:31.30halihm, you should tag a release in dev before it goes to QA and if it fails QA you should retag
14:31.43haliso qa and prod have the same actual release
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14:38.26ChoHagYay! Burnt egg.
15:07.53Armand\o/
15:29.05cpufreak14:58  * ChoHag has one too, next week.
15:29.07cpufreakwhere?
15:30.10ChoHagTradefair.
15:30.15ChoHagPart of Betfair.
15:44.23AndyMillarChoHag: what job?
16:46.05AndyMillareyes ChoHag
16:46.43ChoHagWhat?
16:46.45ChoHagPlease. I'm married.
16:46.55cpufreakhe asked you a question 62 minutes ago
16:47.21ChoHagI'm sorry. Do I have to sit at the computer as a gllug irc requirement?
16:47.27AndyMillarChoHag: what job at Tradefair? :)
16:47.35ChoHagsit at the computer all the time.
16:47.51ChoHagI can't remember what the exact title was. Finding out why QA and prod environments are different.
16:48.02AndyMillarwho interviewed you?
16:48.19ChoHagTom Brown.
16:48.29AndyMillaryou sure it's Tradefair?
16:48.41ChoHagNo. Could be some other part of Betfair.
16:49.04ChoHagThere've been a few adverts up from them - I may be mixing them up.
16:50.51AndyMillaryou probably are :)
16:51.26AndyMillaras there's no Tom Brown at Tradefair
16:53.03antiphaseTom Brown sits next to me. Definitely not Tradefair
16:53.24AndyMillarwe should rename #gllug to #betfairgroup
16:53.52halibilarh used to work there too :)
16:54.09AndyMillaridd
16:54.12ChoHagOh is it popular?
16:55.01ChoHag(Bet|Trade)Fair, that is.
16:55.29AndyMillarmaybe :)
16:55.50ChoHagSo hands up everyone who works there or knows somebody who does.
16:56.01AndyMillarwaves
16:56.50antiphaseo/
16:57.26halii know a few people
16:59.04ChoHagWell in that case, what am I getting myself in to?
16:59.44AndyMillaroh dear
16:59.46AndyMillarantiphase: he doesn't know ;)
16:59.57ChoHagEncouraging start...
17:00.41AndyMillarstamps on the floor to make the caged animals shut up
17:01.21ChoHagYou mean the dev team?
17:01.39AndyMillarnah, previous contractors and staff who've left
17:01.40ChoHagSee now that's why I don't like doing dev commercially.
17:01.44AndyMillarwe leave them tied up under the floor
17:02.37ChoHagOh do you know if you've ever had any agreements with that obnoxious recruiter who occasionally shows up on the list?
17:02.49AndyMillaryeah, we have
17:02.52AndyMillarwe're going to stop using him
17:03.04AndyMillarafter I forwarded some comments about him around
17:03.47ChoHagSo there's a chance he had that job on his own then and wasn't trying to steal it from some other agency.
17:05.12ChoHagOh and another question - why do I need to do a CRB check?
17:05.26AndyMillargambling
17:06.16ChoHagOnly criminals are allowed to gamble?
17:07.13AndyMillar;p
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