And On This Farm He Had A Blog

If I ever meet Lennart Poettering, I will probably need bail money after it is over.

Have switched over to moving a MySQL database extension over to mariadb.

I have to hand it to the mariadb folks, they did an AMAZING job of maintaining backward compatibility. Very few changes needed made to some very complicated functions in this library.

Having more hassles packaging it for RHEL7 than anything else.

RPM triggers are nasty and I do not like them.

@peemee At least I have your attention. (Sorry)

@matigo I figure I will have the hard stuff done after four or five of them.

The best tool to have when porting 22 year old C code from a long gone vendor.

To put an exclamation point on the mildest summer I've ever experienced in the American south-east, the leaves are already starting to turn.

Up north, this is generally bad news for winter. Hoping this isn't the case here.

@kdfrawg They've been crapping it out since 1979.

22 year old C code for Linux made 64 bit safe and ported to Enterprise Linux 7?

Ugh. It's too complicated to re-do from scratch and is needed rarely. But, when it is, it is desperately needed.

Thhhpt. I'll wait until next week.

@kdfrawg That's what trees are for.