Emanuele Rocca

This is the story of an investigation conducted by Jochen Sprickerhof, Helmut Grohne, and myself.

There is more than one way to do it, but it seems that The Right Way to build Debian packages today is using sbuild with the unshare backend.

Here are my notes about copying PGP keys to external hardware devices such as Yubikeys.

This time it’s about enabling new kernel config options in the official Debian kernel packages.

There are many valid reasons to create a custom Debian Installer image.

UPDATE: this post unexpectedly ended up on Hacker News and I received a lot of comments.

To create a bootable EFI drive to use with QEMU, first make a disk image and create a vfat filesystem on it. $ dd if=/dev/zero of=boot.img bs=1M count=512 $ sudo mkfs.vfat boot.img By default, EFI firmwares boot a specific file under /efi/boot/.

Some notes on using debvm, an amazing piece of software I’ve started using only recently.

All graybeard hackers know that: (1) Docker is silly, and (2) containers are very useful.

In the past few years autopkgtest established itself as the system for automated testing of Debian packages.

The release of DTrace in 2005 marked a turning point in the world of UNIX systems when it comes to production analysis, and more in general it greatly helped the process of understanding what’s going on under the covers by means of dynamic tracing.

For a personal project of mine I’ve been using a wildcard TLS certificate issued by Let’s Encrypt. certbot made the process of creating the certificate extremely easy, I just had to apt install certbot and then run the following command, duly copy-pasted…

One of the Amazon reviewers of "Sun Performance and Tuning: Java and the Internet" gave it 3/5 stars.

As of December 2020, there is an alternative to wpa_supplicant.

SystemTap allows to instrument Linux systems at runtime.