November 20, 2008

Arch Linux Eclipse plug-in packaging: a proposal

Eclipse plugins are basically structured the same, but there has never been a standardization proposal to make them consistent and easy to package. It took some time for me to fully understand how the Eclipse plug-in system actually works, especially since Ganymede’s coming, and even more time to develop a PKGBUILD prototype that would fit most plugins with minor modifications. Here’s the result of this work, for which I surely have to thank Jonathan Wiersma: he’s been really great in helping me in this matter.

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November 16, 2008

Policy-based routing with Debian Lenny

This blog post is dedicated to explaining what policy-based routing (PBR) is and how it can work in Debian GNU/Linux. There are many articles and tutorials about this topic, but I wasn’t able to find complete and up-to-date source of information. Since it took many moons for me to figure out the right setup I decided to document the whole thing for everyone else that may need to do the same thing.
This guide is written with Debian Lenny in mind, and tries to be complete and easy to understand. Nevertheless you will need some basic network skills to get through it.

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