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Multiarch, multi distro packaging in Debian land with sbuild & zfs

As mentioned before, I use sbuild and gbp to build packages for debian. Since I first started out, this has developed some and now runs on a different machine and uses zfs! I’ve been building a private repo for our packet radio project to ensure that users on Raspberry Pi and other platforms have the most recent code backported. It’s very frustrating as a user (and as one of the more experienced heads in the community) for people to be approaching a task with software that’s 3+ years out of date at this time. …

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GB7HIB Config & Setup

GB7HIB GB7HIB is my permanent packet radio node, living at my house in the woods atop a hill near Aberdeen! Ofcom’s details for this station are held on ukrepeater It is accessible on 432.6250MHz, and is currently operating on legacy 1200bd. I am very excited to play with new, higher speed modes - The station was commissioned at and tested at 9600bd, and I am excited to play with new speeds as time, equipment and my userbase, allows! …

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Git buildpackage Debian workflow

I use git buildpackage to wrangle and build all my debian packages. It’s nice and nippy when it works, especially when combined with my sbuild setup. I’ve never dug too deep into functionaliy, but I’m reading the manual a lot at the moment. An annoying quirk, I have found, is Debian’s unwavering dependence on tarballs for every build activity. I found myself following the wiki, specifically ‘using the upstream repo’ and becoming very frustrated that gbp buildpackage shouts about needing a tarball. …

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Cross Building for Raspberry Pi using sbuild & btrfs

I use sbuild and btrfs for my debian packaging, it’s quick, solid and was a big improvement on my git-pbuilder setup. I think that’s due to the snapshotting and disposable nature of live chroots. This has been my bible for this, and is a regular reference for me when things break. At the moment, I’m working on a project which will require a repository covering multiple architectures, distribuitions and targets. I’m looking at ubuntu i386, x84_64, maybe armhf/aarch64, raspberry pi armhf & aarch64 and some debian targets too eventually. …

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SOTA Trip Reports: April 24th 2021 - Moray Coast

tj and I figured that to fit the 3 Moray coast hills we were interested in climbing, now that the restrictions are eased, an early start would be required! The longest walk should go first and the activation times on each hill would be limited. Predictably, we left at 1030, got a bit lost and I got too excited on the radio, so none of the self made rules were followed! …

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