Fedora
Darkserver, a GNU build-id details provider web-service (Idea currently in development)
In Fedora 8 we had a feature of adding BuildID Support.
Darkserver is a service written to help people finding details of build-id(s). People will be able query the service based on build-id(s) or rpm package names. The service will provide output in JSON format as it will be easier for other tools to parse the output.
There is darkserver-import tool which can be used by a service like bodhi to run it against each package pushed through. It will populate a MySQL database with the details of build-id and ELF file details.
The current output format for a query of build-id aa995549415cd52a6fbbc21811dfc2dd00e2c242
{"buildid":"aa995549415cd52a6fbbc21811dfc2dd00e2c242","elf":"/usr/lib/mailman/pythonlib/japanese/c/_japanese_codecs.so","rpm":"mailman-2.1.12-17.el6.x86_64.rpm"}
The Web service is written in Django. Package review is currently going on. Code base is in github.
There is a client called darkclient which will query the service and print the output in a way so that it will be easier for shell scripts to parse it.
Second video from FUDCon Pune 2011
It can be found here.
FUDCon day 1
So, writing this post while the day 2 of FUDCon Pune already started.
Day 1 was wonderfully smooth, which I personally never thought will go in such nice way. Registration desk is being handled by multiple people, so even when there were many people standing for the registration , it never looked too many as volunteers handled them nicely. .
Jared Smith gave the opening keynote (which he actually modified in the night before so that the students can understand well). Students were really excited to see him face to face and many students came back later on to ask various questions directly to him. You can watch his talk here.
I generally keep running around in any conference taking photos but this time I spent more time with the computer do things. Jared helped to fix various issues in the my python book (pym) and he did the commits. The time when I started writing this book , he is instrumental with all related publican/docbook help.
Arun Sag had too many participants in the linux workshop.
I spent most of the second half of the day in speakers lounge working on getting my code out for the hackfest in day 3. I will write another blog later on the day with details of it.
We also did a small key signing party in speakers lounge, btw, I have a new key 9DD5346D
You can view the FUDCon Pune live here.
