It took me a while to solve this problem, therefore here is the solution for everyone… I installed the PUEL version of VirtualBox from the virtualbox.org website, the version for personal use and evaluation.There is the OSE version included in
CruiseControl.net and Mono
I have set up CruiseControl.net (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ccnet/) on Mono for building our OpenPetra.org project, which is quite a big project. Here are the steps I followed, and my config files so that people can benefit from it: Here is some advice
BestPractical RT: Request Tracker on CentOS 5 with PostgreSQL
see also http://www.ptitov.net/2008/07/request-tracker-installation-o.html Here are the steps how to install Request Tracker on CentOS 5 with PostgreSQL: Install RPM packages yum install postgresql postgresql-server postgresql-libsyum install httpd perl-BSD-Resource perl-FCGI perl-Apache-DBI mod_perlwget http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/rpmforge-release/rpmforge-release-0.3.6-1.el5.rf.i386.rpmrpm -Uhv rpmforge-release*.rpm yum install perl-Digest-HMAC perl-Apache-Session perl-Class-Container perl-Class-Data-Inheritable
Building a mono 2.0 RPM for RHEL4/CentOS4
When I noticed that Novell does not offer RPMS of Mono 2.0 for RedHat Linux, I had a look at the Fedora 10 Beta and found that there is a Mono 2.0 Source RPM:mono-2.0-6.fc10.src.rpmUpdate: mono-2.0.1-12.fc10.src.rpm Because we work with CentOS4/RedHat
Use Progress and ODBC on CentOS with Japanese
This is related to my previous blog about using Chinese characters with Progress, .Net and Mono: Allow Chinese characters on a Client-Server application Now the next challenge was to get Japanese characters to work. I first converted the Progress database
Manage webspace with Hostsharing
I am a member of Hostsharing eG, which is a German company owned by its members with the aim to take the idea of Open Source to Webhosting. You don’t need to worry about backups or availability, because the webmasters
Allow Chinese characters on a Client-Server application
I recently had to provide a working solution for Traditional Chinese for Hongkong. It involved both ODBC on the Linux server to read correct data from a Progress database, and process that data in .net on Mono, but also on
Config files in RPM files
see this very helpful description of RPM, %config, and (noreplace) by Jon Warbrick all about when files are stored with extension .rpmnew or .rpmsave, and when the current file is actually replaced with the new file
Use patched files in RPMs
see Packaging software with RPM diff -uNr the_package/the_file \ the_package/the_file.new > the_file.patchcopy the patch file to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES The spec file has those lines: After Sources:Patch0: the_file.patch After %setup, before %build %patch -p1 To get your new version from the original
Package a Perl module
First check if somebody did already the job, e.g. on artfiles.org RPMS (SRPMS) or just for RPMS: RPMPan or this search site: Linux Software Directory . You need to install perl-Archive-Tar-1.08-2.noarch.rpm and perl-RPM-Specfile-1.17-1.noarch.rpm.A description of the module perl-RPM-Specfile can be