Older blog entries for kraai (starting at number 14)

27 May 2001 (updated 28 May 2001 at 01:04 UTC) »

Submitted a patch to fix a bug in man-db where it was concatenating the arguments to col incorrectly.

Built and uploaded new libcdaudio packages.

Built and uploaded new cdcd package.

Built and uploaded another cdcd package.

Submitted a patch to include missing header files in cdcd distribution.

Built and uploaded another cdcd package.

Submitted a patch to add termwrap to base-config.

23 May 2001 (updated 24 May 2001 at 15:27 UTC) »

Fixed a bad tag in the Swedish translation of the latest DWN.

Applied a patch from Larry Doolittle to make BusyBox's find_root_device more robust.

Applied another patch from Larry to fix hush's behavior for recursive file_peeks.

Submitted a patch to add termwrap to boot-floppies.

Went to an Angry Barbers show.

Fixed some boot-floppies dependencies so that af_packet.o is sure to be included on the root disk.

22 May 2001 (updated 22 May 2001 at 15:19 UTC) »

Fixed a number of bugs in BusyBox: misnamed rewind command in mt, extra -- lines output by grep, gunzip handling of - file, and leading /s in tar archive members. These were all noted by others, and many came with patches.

Finished War and Peace.

21 May 2001 (updated 21 May 2001 at 20:58 UTC) »

Fixed BusyBox mt to open the tape with O_WRONLY when performing a write operation.

Added support for the tell command to BusyBox mt.

Fixed BSD disklabel partition ordering for 2.2 kernels in Debian boot-floppies's libfdisk.

Submitted a patch to lessen memory usage of GCC's genattrtab.

Added myself to GCC MAINTAINERS.

18 May 2001 (updated 18 May 2001 at 21:31 UTC) »

Rewrote BusyBox copyfd function to actually work.

Applied an improvement from Aaron Lehmann to change snprintf copies to safe_strncpys in BusyBox init.

17 May 2001 (updated 18 May 2001 at 17:43 UTC) »

Fix recent releases list in GNU Free Software Directory and correct some other small typos.

Use herror instead of hstrerror in BusyBox for libc5 compatibility.

Reread The Postman Always Rings Twice (obviously not programming related, but a good book nonetheless).

16 May 2001 (updated 16 May 2001 at 15:47 UTC) »

Based on a patch from Larry Doolittle, changed all occurences of 'printf *( *"%s\n", ...)' to 'puts(...)' in BusyBox.

Cleaned up handling of gethostbyname error messages in BusyBox.

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