n2n package improved

Root.cz recently ran an article (in Czech) about the n2n virtual private network sofware, an open alternative to Hamachi. I intend to use it to cross the NAT in my mom's DSL modem so that I can connect to her computer with ssh and VNC.
Thanks to happyman_eric and Grief, openSUSE Build Service already contained a package. I have made an improved version, adding an init script and a sysconfig file. Get the sources in my home project, or the binaries.

D-Bus and Ruby

There isn't a canonical D-Bus library for Ruby. I found four projects, two of which are interesting.

First, the two losers:
* dbus-ruby: It wraps the C bindings. It is dead (last release in January 2005).
* pr-dbus: No releases, last SVN commit in April 2007, entirely in Ruby.

Now for the contenders. Both are packaged as RPMs in the OBS YaST:Web project.
The developers know about each other but in 2007 they did not want to merge the projects. The developers are not active but patches do appear.

* ruby-dbus

• LGPL
• no test suite (but I've started one together with bug fixes: Github clone)
• can export services
• cumbersome API (explicit introspection calls needed, explicit types for variants needed, return value must be an array)

BTW Klaus has two posts about writing a client and a server with ruby-dbus.

* rbus

• GPL
• test suite (RSpec, needs a patch)
• cannot export services

WebYaST is using ruby-dbus so far, but I am looking at rbus too because of the tests and and the nicer API.

Perl DBus Library

If you want camels in your D-Bus, use perl-Net-DBus by Daniel Berrange. I have just fixed the original packaging done by Illuusio. Enjoy.

A Minimal Build Service OSC Plugin

I am trying to make OBS cooperate with my old release scripts*. So far I have this minimal plugin for osc to share:

$ mkdir ~/.osc-plugins
$ cd $_
$ cat > releasecheck.py <<EOF
def do_releasecheck(self, subcmd):
   print "Release early, release often."
EOF
$ osc releasecheck
Release early, release often.

*) They are not released, bad me; but they rely on the internal directory layout anyway.