Bloggy

So I’d finally set up my grandma’s computer the other day, and configured
it to run Fluxbox and Mozilla Firefox to conserve memory. Unfortunately,
Fluxbox isn’t included with Gentoo’s GRP package, and after a few hours of
compiling it was looking like my grandma’s computer would never be able to
install it either. So what I did was setup a chroot environment on my home
system which is very similar to my Grandma’s system, down to the last USE
flag. I was then able to compile binary packages on my fast home system and
then have them downloaded from my Grandma’s slow computer. It’s up at http://grammarian.homelinux.net/cgi-bin/x86-packages
right now. Feel free to browse around, but please don’t actually download
anything, my upload bandwidth is bad enough as it is. ;-)

It’s easy enough just to add the list of packages to an HTML file as I
build them, but I figured this would be a great way to learn the CGI.pm module
that comes with Perl. So I made a simple script that allows you to browse the
built packages, search for one by name, and download it. Luckily, it was
nothing too difficult, although I did notice that the File::Copy module just
doesn’t seem to work in conjunction with CGI scripting, at least with Apache
2.

Now I just have to parlay this knowledge into improving my site, or just be
happy that I know something about CGI scripting now and install some other
software to improve my site. :-D

Well, off to bed, I have to get up in about 5 1/2 hours. :-(

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