Posts Tagged ‘dependencies’
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
Dependabot Wishlist
GitHub is at the heart of how I do work, and Dependabot is one of the core tools. Even before we started using OpenSSF Scorecards, which pushed us to pin dependencies, Dependabot was something we used a lot to ensure that things were up to date. But, Dependabot isn’t perfect, and looking at the discussion […]
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Tags: Dependabot, dependencies, dependency management, github, rollup, wishlist
Which Java?
Or should that be: TL;DR Practices for installing and maintaining Java have evolved over time, which can lead to tension between teams who are set in a particular way, and other teams who see that as backward. The present state of the art is not to have Java on hosts at all, and to containerise […]
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Tags: APT, conatiners, containerisation, deb, dependencies, Docker, installation, java, OpenJDK, patching, rpm, SDKMAN, yum
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