Making a patch set

Get a clone and make a new branch:

290 21:08 git clone git://linux-nfs.org/~steved/cthon04.git
291 21:08 cd cthon04
292 21:08 git branch FreeBSD
293 21:08 git checkout FreeBSD
294 21:08 git branch

Edit your files and commit the changes:

299 21:09 git commit -a

Make the patch set:


303 21:15 git format-patch --cover-letter -s -n master..FreeBSD

Edit the cover letter to document your changes:

309 21:20 vi 0000-cover-letter.patch

Send the changes:


311 21:21 git send-email --smtp-encryption=tls --smtp-server=smtp.gmail.com --smtp-user=<user>@gmail.com --smtp-server-port=587 --to "<owner>" 000*

Note, while you might use a different email address inside the cover letter, it will still go out as from the user being referenced above. I.e., use the real smtp-server if you don’t want to expose your gmail account.

Note, you might have to install git-mail to do it this way. You can mail the patch set in many different ways.

June 27, 2011 by tricks 0

VMware upgrade might blow away your networking

If you have customized your Fusion networking, be sure to make a copy of /Library/Application\ Support/VMware\ Fusion/networking to your home directory before upgrading.

And then copy it back and before you start up a VM, do sudo ./boot.sh –start in that directory.

June 27, 2011 by Admin Macs VM 0

Compiling XDR for NFSv4 on Linux

On Fedora at least, you need:

sudo yum -y install libgssglue-devel
sudo yum -y install nfs-utils-lib-devel

in order to get this to work.

Update: For modern Fedora systems:

sudo yum install -y nfs-utils libtirpc-devel

seems to do the trick!

May 8, 2011 by linux 0