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Java 1.6u15 installation in Fedora 11

Friday, August 7th, 2009

Sometimes life is strange. Just 4 days ago I was releasing the spec file for Java 1.6u14, and now Sun releases the new patched vm. Anyway, go grab the new jdk bin package (check for update 15) and download the spec file from here . Follow the instructions from previous post and all should be ok.

Just in case, the older spec file can be found here .

A sidenote – the behaviour here is that fixes of major version will update the base package. So 1.6u15 will just upgrade 1.6u14. If you wish something different, let me know. But this is JPackage standard.

Update – please remove previous version of packages. I am studying the update path + alternatives issues which emerged.

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Home Server – Part Three

Friday, June 12th, 2009

Well, a six month release cycle make me wonder, so instead of keeping my home server up to date with fedora, I decided to give Centos 5.3 a try.

It went…well, apart from a known issue with my motherboard network card. CentOS 5.3 installs all right without complaining, but every few seconds the network card delays the response.

Given that I use the little beast for dhcp, DNS and iscsi, this is not what i was looking for. Luckily enough, after searching for a while, I found the issue (module r8169) and built the r8168 with dkms provided by rpmforge.

Now all is going well. Another addition to the setup, I bought a Western Digital MyBook Studio II for backup and safety purposes. Two disks, one terabyte each, raid 1 setting.

Exported part of it through iscsi for the mac (storage of all digital photos through iPhoto, thanks) and the rest is for me. Connection is fast (esata2), and, anyway, I am using it mostly through WiFi, so anything could be fast enough (except USB 1.1, i think).

Happy? Yes, now I am confident my backups will survive a disk failure. I did not find iscsi-target (IET implementation) in a CentOS 64 bit package, through.

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