Archive for the ‘howto’ Category
TL;DR GitHub Pages is a practical way to host a low volume repo for apt and yum/dnf. The relevant metadata can be generated using GitHub Actions, and the process can be triggered by a release from the source repo. Background In my last post I wrote about creating .deb and .rpm packages (for our Dart […]
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Tags: APT, aws, bandwidth, brew, CloudFront, deb, dnf, GitHub Actions, GitHub Pages, homebrew, hosting, rpm, VPS, yum
TL;DR nFPM makes it very easy to put your binaries into a Debian .deb or RedHat Package Manager .rpm file. Background We’ve been using full stack Dart and Flutter at Atsign since the dawn of the company in 2019, so when NoPorts came along we released the binaries in tarballs (or zip files) from GitHub […]
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Tags: APT, cross compiling, Dart, deb, GitHub Actions, GoReleaser, help2man, lint, lintian, man, nFPM, QEMU, rpm, yum
Silent PC GPU upgrade
TL;DR Nvidia have ended Linux support for my ‘Pascal’ GTX 1050 Ti GPU. I’ve been able to fit an RTX 5050 card in its place, though the process was problematic due to driver issues. And I’m still concerned that it can only be limited to 110W when my passive cooling is rated up to 75W. […]
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Tags: 1050 Ti, 5050, console, cooling, drivers, GPU, grub, GTX, Kubuntu, Linux, NVidia, Palit, passive, power, RTX, silent, StormX
Background We build a bunch of stuff for RISC-V using the Dart official Docker image, but the RISC-V images can often arrive some time (days) after the more mainstream images[1]. That means that if we merge a Dependabot PR for an updated image it might well be missing RISC-V, causing the Continuous Delivery (CD) pipeline […]
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Tags: CD, CI, Dart, Debian, Docker, GitHub Actions, image, manifest, RISC-V, testing
TL;DR Supply-chain Levels for Software Artifacts (SLSA) attestations are a great way to show that you care about security, and they’re fairly trivial to add to delivery pipelines that produce a single binary or container image. But things get tricky with matrix jobs that build lots of things in parallel, as you then need to […]
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Tags: AI, ARM, artifact, attestation, CD, container, Cosign, Dart, DevOps, Docker, Gemini, GitHub Actions, image, json, matrix, security, signing, slsa
Sometimes I need an older or newer version of CMake to the one installed by the system package manager on whatever I’m using, and I’ve found using a Python venv provides an easy way to do that. It’s all facilitated by the fact that CMake is a PyPI package [1]. For example, my Kubuntu desktop […]
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Tags: CMake, python, uv, venv
TL;DR pymarkdownlnt provides an easy way of checking that any Markdown you’re working on is complying to some sensible guidelines. If you’re comfortable with Python virtual environments you won’t really need the rest of this post. Why? I’ve spent a bunch of time recently adding OpenSSF Scorecards to the key Atsign repos. Build better security […]
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Tags: Actions, github, lint, lints, Markdown, Pip, pymarkdown, pymarkdownlnt, python, scorecard, Ubuntu, uv, venv, venvs, virtual environment
Ever since I started signing GitHub commits with SSH keys I’ve made sure to use git v2.35 or later. Unfortunately Google Cloud Shell comes with a rather crusty old version of git (as part of the fact that it’s still based on Debian 11 ‘Bullseye’). Just copying over a more recent git binary doesn’t work. […]
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Tags: cloud, git, github, google, shell
While I wait for GitHub to get their act together on my Dependabot Wishlist I’ve created a little script for my first frustration – rollups. Another morning, another patch release of Dart, another 4 Dependabot PRs in my inbox: Only this time I was able to simply run: and the subsequent 3 PRs were rolled […]
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Tags: bash, Dependabot, dependencies, dependency management, gh, git, github, PR, PRs, rollup, script
Background At home I have a bunch of SSH tunnels from a VM to my various virtual private servers in various places around the world, so I can direct my web traffic through those exit points when needed. I’ve written before about using autossh to do this. But when I’m travelling I don’t have my […]
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Tags: keys, OpenWRT, proxy, SOCKS, SSH, sshtunnel, tunnel
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