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  • We're now publishing for Ubuntu aswell

    2009/01/26 by Arthur Lutz
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    We've always been big fans of debian here at Logilab. So publishing debian packages for our open source software has always been a priority.

    We're now a bit involved with Ubuntu, work with it on some client projects, have a few Ubuntu machines lying around, and we like it too. So we've decided to publish our packages for Ubuntu as well as for debian.

    In the 0.12.1 version of logilab-devtools we introduced publishing of Ubuntu packages with lgp (Logilab Packaging) - see ticket. Since then, you can add the following Ubuntu source to your Ubuntu system

    deb http://ftp.logilab.org/dists hardy/

    For now, only hardy is up and running, give us a shout if you want something else!


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  • New supported repositories for Debian and Ubuntu

    2010/01/21 by Arthur Lutz

    For the release of hgview 1.2.0 in our Karmic Ubuntu repository, we would like to announce that we are now going to generate packages for the following distributions :

    • Debian Lenny (because it's stable)
    • Debian Sid (because it's the dev branch)
    • Ubuntu Hardy (because it has Long Term Support)
    • Ubuntu Karmic (because it's the current stable)
    • Ubuntu Lucid (because it's the next stable) - no repo yet, but soon...
    http://img.generation-nt.com/ubuntulogo_0080000000420571.png

    The old packages in the previously supported architectures are still accessible (etch, jaunty, intrepid), but new versions will not be generated for these repositories. Packages will be coming in as versions get released, if before that you need a package, give us a shout and we'll see what we can do.

    For instructions on how to use the repositories for Ubuntu or Debian, go to the following page : http://www.logilab.org/card/LogilabDebianRepository


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  • Enable and disable encrypted swap - Ubuntu

    2010/05/18 by Arthur Lutz
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    With the release of Ubuntu Lucid Lynx, the use of an encrypted /home is becoming a pretty common and simple to setup thing. This is good news for privacy reasons obviously. The next step which a lot of users are reluctant to accomplish is the use of an encrypted swap. One of the most obvious reasons is that in most cases it breaks the suspend and hibernate functions.

    Here is a little HOWTO on how to switch from normal swap to encrypted swap and back. That way, when you need a secure laptop (trip to a conference, or situtation with risk of theft) you can active it, and then deactivate it when you're at home for example.

    Turn it on

    That is pretty simple

    sudo ecryptfs-setup-swap

    Turn it off

    https://launchpadlibrarian.net/17699584/ecryptfs_64.png

    The idea is to turn off swap, remove the ecryptfs layer, reformat your partition with normal swap and enable it. We use sda5 as an example for the swap partition, please use your own (fdisk -l will tell you which swap partition you are using - or in /etc/crypttab)

    sudo swapoff -a
sudo cryptsetup remove /dev/mapper/cryptswap1
sudo vim /etc/crypttab
*remove the /dev/sda5 line*
sudo /sbin/mkswap /dev/sda5
sudo swapon /dev/sda5
sudo vim /etc/fstab
*replace /dev/mapper/cryptswap1 with /dev/sda5*

    If this is is useful, you can probably stick it in a script to turn on and off... maybe we could get an ecryptfs-unsetup-swap into ecryptfs.


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