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Ohloh enlistments not updating

June 7th, 2010

I just realized the enlistments of neither GitStats nor ViewGit on Ohloh have updated during the last five (!) months.

The web branch for GitStats says “Ohloh update completed 5 months ago.”, master branch “(Failed 5 months ago.)”. Ditto for ViewGit, except the other way around.

No wonder the commit count hasn’t been going up after pushing out commits :)

Based on some Help! [1,2] posts on Ohloh forums, they seem to be updating failed projects manually. Ouch!

Update 2010-06-08: I got this reply from Ohloh pretty quickly:

It looks like these repositories were rebased, or had their commit history somehow changed. When this happens, Ohloh is unable to perform an incremental update to our reports.

I’ve started clean clones of these repositories, which should clear up the issue. I’ll keep an eye on them.

Okay, so there’s an explanation.

(Of course, it would be  nice if Ohloh could recover from that situation automatically)

rant

How to upgrade all dependencies of a debian package

June 4th, 2010

Sometimes Debian Unstable users may find it useful to upgrade all dependencies of a package (missing version dependencies etc). The following command can be used to do it:

$ aptitude safe-upgrade ~Rpackage~U

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