Today I published another part of the ArchLinux Development Stack, the java-nexus package. This package contains the Nexus program, a Maven Repository Manager.
If you are interested in this package, please vote for it in the AUR or, even better, join the project.
I have now finally published the newest version of the ArchLinux DevStack package Sonar. This contains now some major improvements in the Linux-ification. Meaning that now all configuration files are stored in /etc/sonar and the PID file is stored in /var/run. The logs are also stored in /var/log/sonar.
I hope, that this will help you in using this package. The next version of the package will include an own user for Sonar.
This new package can also be found in the GIT-Respository as well as in the AUR. For new Features and Bugs, please visit the Project Homepage.
All Help is welcome and appreciated.
After I opened a file in gedit (under Gnome), and edited the file, this file contains now a lot of ^M-tags on the end of each line.
To remove these tags (using vi), I found this page, where a standard syntax for this kind of search and replace of special characters is explained.
This command is kind of tricky in that you have to type the Ctrl-V and Ctrl-M in sequence to receive the right command.
I started with a new version of the Sonar package for ArchLinux. The major improvement will be the separation of configuration files into /etc/sonar and log files into /var/log/sonar. This separation is done via some hard coding of pathes in the sonar.sh and the wrapper.conf.
If you are interested in this package, this improvement will be put into the AUR soon.
I hope that these changes can be used also for the Nexus package, which will be put into the AUR soon as well.
If you are interested in one of these packages, please contact me.
Since the Development Stack contains the package Git, we thought, that it is a good idea to use Git as our main repository. Therefor we have now a Git Repository hosted at http://repo.or.cz/w/archlinuxdevstack.git.
If you would like to help us, please sign yourself up 
The main page of the project can be found on OpenPario.net.
The ArchLinux Development Stack found a Home. I received some very friendly, personel and quick support from the guys at Open+Pario and that was the main reason I chose this one. They are hosting a Redmine instance and GIT, so this is a perfect fit for the stack.
Please browse to http://openpario.mime.oregonstate.edu:3000/projects/archdevstack to get an impression of the project.
Like already stated, any help is welcome, so register yourself and provide feedback, suggestions and everything else you can think of.
Like already stated, I would like to build a Development Stack for ArchLinux and especially Java. Now I have published another Package of this stack – Sonar. Sonar is a quality metric tool for Java and especially Maven peojects. This package is in its early phase and it is using the default Derby Db and Jetty as the Web Daemon. The Wrapper delivered with Sonar to start the daemon is still in place and uses the user root.
So, this is the first release of this package and I think that there is a lot more to come. BTW, I am still looking for support for this “project”. Any help is welcome.
Quite a long time ago (January 2007) I have already planned to publish a Development Stack for a Linux Server. This plan failed on the Ubuntu Platform. Now I am planning the same for the ArchLinux Distro. Due to the fact, that packages can be put together and uploaded way easier then on any other Disto I know, this time, I will not fail
The first package was released the day before yesterday. Please read the previous Post for more informations.
The package is called Redmine-Mysql-SVN. If you are interested in helping me building the whole Stack, please contact me.
Currently I am dreaming of the following packages:
All striked packages exists already for ArchLinux. Therefore they do not have to be build again. Probably the whole stuff is then packed together using another package. Because most of these Services do provide their own HTTP Server (e.g. Redmine is using Webrick, Sonar, Hudson and Nexus come with Jetty), I would like to provide some nice integrations into one server (Tomcat and Apache HTTPD in this case), so that the overhead can be kept to a minimum.
What do you think? I would definitly like to make this package work and would appreciate any help.
Yesterday I have published my first package (redmine-mysql-svn) into the AUR (ArchLinux User Repository). This package installs my favourite Project Management System (guess which one?, Redmine of course) using an existing MySQL DB onto ArchLinux. I hope that you will find it useful.
AUR Entry – Redmine Mysql SVN Package
This package is based on the work of Ssji.
Yesterday I upgraded Gnome on my ArchLinux Laptop to the version 2.28. There are quite some changes in this new version of Gnome. The first I recognized, was the different Background-Picture of the Login Screen. To change this Background just type in the following into the Terminal:
gksudo -u gdm dbus-launch gnome-appearance-properties
This calls the gnome-appearance application using the gdm session. Select a nice Background, and you are done. It is normal, that two accessability icons appear in your panel. To fix this, just log-off and they should be vanished. If you still have one, please go to the Keyboard Settings and turn off the accessabiliity feature.
One more problem, I do have right now, is the Keyboard Layout of the GDM Login Screen. This is by default set to the US design (qwerty) and not like expected to DE (qwertz). The normal Keyboard Layout for Gnome is already set to DE, but still the GDM Login Screen is set to US.
I found the this Forum entry, and will dig deeper. Hopefully I find an easy solution, then I will report back.