Rico's Blog


OSS activist, ASF Member, former Tomcat contributor, founder of JPackage, DevOps Incubator and OBuildFactory projects. Dev, QA and Ops.


  1. Gitlab custom hooks - Bash Way

    If you’re using Gitlab, you may know you could use custom hooks to validate contents. Everything is detailed in http://doc.gitlab.com/ce/hooks/custom_hooks.html I found many examples where hooks are Ruby based and using Gitlab APIs but I wanted something in good old…


  2. CentOS/RHEL and up to date Subversion and Git

    If you’re using CentOS/RHEL 5, 6 or 7, you have noticed bundled subversion and git are quite old. It could be a problem if you need to use smart features, like Sparse Checkout. Also Jenkins Git Plugin recommand version 1.7 or higher. Of course, you could…


  3. CVE-2014-8139 and activation-1.1.1.jar

    While rebuilding archiva RPM package, I noticed some openSUSE systems to complains about invalid jar file for activation-1.1.1.jar http://central.maven.org/maven2/javax/activation/activation/1.1.1/activation-1.1.1.jar Unzip indicate an error : unzip -t activation-1.1.1.jar Archive: activation-1.1.1.…


  4. VirtualBox 4.3.22 and network drives

    If you upgraded from VirtualBox 4.3.20 to 4.3.22 and use Vbox network shares, you may have noticed shares are reported as unmounted, even if they are available. This is a well known issue : https://forums.virtualbox.org/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=66081 https://forums.…


  5. Very first post using HubPress.

    Back to basic 2 years ago, I moved from wordpress to github pages. I used Octopress but I should say it wasn’t a so good idea. In fact, I needed something simple, with a web editor. I just discover http://hubpress.io/ and it seems to fit all…