Category: Software

Debian Package Management Cheat Sheet

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  • List version of an installed package: dpkg -s docker-ce | grep Version
  • Show all available versions of a package: apt-cache madison <package>

Packages being held back because of phasing

Run the following command replacing the package in question

apt-get --with-new-pkgs upgrade <package-name

The following packages have been kept back

Try the following, in order. Each is less risky than the next. Stop as soon as you have fixed the problem.

Solution 1

apt-get --with-new-pkgs upgrade <list of packages kept back
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How to partially cherry-pick a commit in git

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There are times when you need to cherry-pick a commit from another branch. Then there are times when you only need parts of that commit.

Following is how you can partly cherry-pick a commit to get only the changes that you need.

Get the patch for the entire commit. Include the -n for no commit so that it does not add it as a commit to your branch

git cherry-pick -n <commit

Then unstage the the changes from the cherry-picked → Continue reading “How to partially cherry-pick a commit in git”

Go template that properly renders delimiters for a slice of structs

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It is common to write go text/templates that range over a slice of objects to write out a list or array of items that are separated by some delimiter defined in the template.

In the case of a JSON array of objects, the cleanest output would be a , separating each object without a leading or trailing comma.

Because go template if statements are falsey in that a 0 value will evaluate to false you can write a template as → Continue reading “Go template that properly renders delimiters for a slice of structs”

How to set up a locally hosted git server and create new repositories

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You may have code and configurations that are required to stay on premise. As a result, you will need to setup your own git server and create and manage repositories locally. Following is an overview of how to set that up.

We will leave aside server setup, configuration, and networking and assume that we have a machine on which we will host the repos, git-server, and machines that will clone, pull, and push updates, clients.

Setting up the

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Setting up software RAID on Debian with mdadm

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Software RAID has come a long way. Unless you have some very high-rate, high-volume, I/O workloads with SLAs that will otherwise cost you money, for the most part a software RAID will perform just fine. One of the primary benefits of using software RAID is the portability of your disks/data. If a box on which you have a software RAID dies somehow and at least some (depending on your RAID configuration) of drives survive, you can easily resurrect the RAID → Continue reading “Setting up software RAID on Debian with mdadm”

[SOLVED] debsig-verify for Failed verification error, “signatures using the SHA1 algorithm are rejected” and “Can’t check signature: Invalid digest algorithm”

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If you are using debsig-verify for the verification of a downloaded .deb file and are unable to verify it, run it with the -d option to get more information. If you see the following two lines

gpg: Note: signatures using the SHA1 algorithm are rejected
gpg: Can't check signature: Invalid digest algorithm

It is likely that the PGP signature used to sign the package uses the SHA1 algorithm which has been deprecated in most of the recent Linux distros. If → Continue reading “[SOLVED] debsig-verify for Failed verification error, “signatures using the SHA1 algorithm are rejected” and “Can’t check signature: Invalid digest algorithm””

LVM Resize – reduce the size of one logical volume to enable expanding another

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I’m running an Ubuntu workstation and when setting it up simply went the “next-next-next” route when setting up the encrypted disk via LVM. The default is to create a 1G swap partition which is just not enough when you attempt to run too many things and locks up and/or crashes the machine.

My goal was to reduce my /root partition and then use that space to extend my swap partition.

Ensure that you back up your data first! There is → Continue reading “LVM Resize – reduce the size of one logical volume to enable expanding another”

Convert a Slice of Any Type to a CSV in Go

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There are times, mostly for logging and debugging, when you have a slice of a given type that you would like to print to a log file or just convert to a CSV of values.

A quick and easy way to convert a slice to a CSV in Golang is to use the json module to Marshal it a JSON encoded array.

For example

package main

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"fmt"
)

func main() {
	ints := []int64{1, 2, 3,
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Earthly Cheat Sheet

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I have just recently started using Earthly and the following is a list of commands that I want to keep track of

Caching

Completely clearing the cache: Earthly stores artifacts in docker volumes. If you want to completely flush that data and start fresh run the following

docker stop earthly-buildkitd && \
docker rm earthly-buildkitd && \
docker volume rm earthly-cache
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git Cheat Sheet

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A handful of handy git commands that I don’t use all that often but want to keep track of:

Stashing

Stash a single file

git stash push -m 'message here' -- path/to/file

Drop a specific stash

First figure out the id of the stash you want to drop with git stash list, then issue the following command

git stash drop stash@{n}

Editing Commits

Changing author of already pushed commit

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