Let's say you use Gentoo Build Publisher to continuously build your Gentoo machine's packages, but you haven't updated your actual machine in a while. And finally when you do something's broken but you don't know what broke or when? Well something like that happened to me and I want to …
Articles in the Gentoo category
Rolling Back a Rolling Release with Gentoo Build Publisher
Let's say you've upgraded to tracker-3.4 and it doesn't work. You could mask tracker-3.4, but it depends on tracker-miners-3.4 so you'll have to mask that too. There may be other dependencies that you'd have to mask too. What you'd really rather do is go back in time …
Installing Gentoo Build Publisher
In my article from 14 months ago when I introduced Gentoo Build Publisher I wrote "Next time I will write about how one can install one's own gbp instance." Well that didn't happen. It's not that I couldn't document it, but I first wanted to make installing GBP easy. I …
Exploring the Gentoo Build Publisher Dashboard
Screenshots and explanation of the new Gentoo Build Publisher dashboard.
Introducing Gentoo Build Publisher
Gentoo Linux is a source-based rolling-release meta-distribution that one can twist and mold into pretty much anything one likes. That's just a verbose way of saying Gentoo is awesome.
Over the years I have been interested in mixing Gentoo's source-based DNA with continuous integration. For a while I've had most …