[ANNOUNCE] git-deb: a Git importer for Debian packages

2013-10-24 Thread Gabriel de Perthuis
Hello, I've written a tool to import Debian packages into Git: git clone deb::mypackage It does a faithful import of the package history from snapshot.debian.org. There is some agressive caching built-in, and a bit of logic to rebuild the history graph from changelogs. It is also able to de

Re: [ANN] Ubuntu PPA for bcache-tools and blocks

2013-09-13 Thread Gabriel de Perthuis
> Is that possible to create bcached kernel for raring? I like > autoapdating and packages created via standard way. So I can install > source package and headers and can vbuild to it dkms modules. A backported dkms module isn't feasible, bcache comes with work on the block layer. Raring users sh

[ANN] Ubuntu PPA for bcache-tools and blocks

2013-09-13 Thread Gabriel de Perthuis
Hello, I've published various bcache-related packages to https://launchpad.net/~g2p/+archive/storage/ The packages are built for saucy and raring, and can be added with sudo add-apt-repository ppa:g2p/storage sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install bcache-tools blocks bcache is a h