Debian builds with Podman

Since I no longer have Debian on my desktop computer, I had to arrange an environment for building Debian packages. I could use a virtual machine running Debian for that purpose but this would have several disadvantages: It would consume unnecessarily much resources. I would have to use a nested build environment such as cowbuilder… Continue reading Debian builds with Podman

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Software problem: Lost network in a Podman container

I use Podman for running various stuff. It’s sometimes challenging due to problems of all categories. One special problem I experienced on one of my computers was that if a container had stopped and then was started again, it lost its network interface, only loopback interface remained available. I searched the web and hoped it… Continue reading Software problem: Lost network in a Podman container

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Moving to Podman

Until recently, I used to use chroot, schroot and LXC to run my nested Linux environments. I’ve never used Docker, which has always looked like a single-purpose and quite limited tool to me. I started looking more deeply at Podman last year. I realized that this kind of technology can be mature enough now to… Continue reading Moving to Podman

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Software problem: KDE Wallet

When I reinstalled my desktop computer, KDE started asking me for a wallet password. Each time a short while after I started my web browser. It didn’t look all right: I don’t think I’ve ever set a wallet password and I deleted whole KDE configuration after I had reinstalled the computer. I couldn’t see any… Continue reading Software problem: KDE Wallet

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Software problem: Emacs windows not properly maximized

I don’t like wasting screen space so the very first configuration action I do in newly installed desktop environments is making all windows maximized by default. After I had reinstalled my computer, I experienced a problem that new Emacs windows (or frames, in Emacs terminology) created after Emacs had started were not fully vertically maximized,… Continue reading Software problem: Emacs windows not properly maximized

Software problem: DKIM

I managed to waste my time on another thing. I foolishly thought that I should finally add DKIM to my mail server. Configuring it in the mail server was relatively easy. But once I started to check whether it actually works, I’ve fallen into trouble. I started with the elliptic curve algorithm (ed25519). OpenDKIM on… Continue reading Software problem: DKIM

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Czech programming keyboard is back!

I’ve recently reinstalled my computer and switched to a different Linux distribution there. Because of the change, I got new (or different) versions of many desktop components. And when configuring my keyboard, I can see Czech programming keyboard is available in X again. What a relief!

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Software problems (and rsync failed to set permissions)

I regret that I have little opportunity to work on free software outside my job these days. One of the reasons is that I have been struggling all the time with things that don’t work, a significant part of them being software problems. Software problems can be categorized into three groups: User stupidity problems Software… Continue reading Software problems (and rsync failed to set permissions)

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