Ebuild for KDE service menu manager

Posted on by phillme

Recently I created a gentoo ebuild for the 0.4 version of the KDE 4.3 service menu manager (http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/Service+Menu+Manager?content=94996):


# Copyright 1999-2008 Gentoo Foundation
# Author Phillip Merensky
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2

EAPI="2"

inherit kde4-base

DESCRIPTION="This app is a System Settings module to manage service menus."
HOME_PAGE="http://www.kde-look.org/content/show.php/Service+Menu+Manager?content=94996"
KEYWORDS="amd64 x86"
IUSE=""
SRC_URI="http://linux.wuertz.org/dists/sid/main/source/kcm-servicemenus_${PV}.tar.gz"
SLOT="4.3"

DEPEND="kde-base/kdelibs:${SLOT}"

S="${WORKDIR}/kcm-servicemenu"

src_unpack() {
unpack ${A}
cd "${S}_build"
}

src_compile() {
S="${WORKDIR}/kcm-servicemenu_build"
cd "$S"
emake || die "Make failed!"
}

Save it as service-menu-manager-0.4.ebuild in your favorite category (I prefer kde-misc) in your custom overlay, execute

ebuild service-menu-manager-0.4.ebuild digest

and emerge it.

Apache document root RewriteRule error

Posted on by phillme

While customizing this homepage I came across the following problem: I wanted to rewrite every request which accesses the root of this page to access the subfolder “drupal”. This way t is possible to use “www.phillme.de” to see the blog and additionally allow subfolders on the same level as the “drupal” directory.

My first guess was to use the following in a .htaccess-file in the document root:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule^/$/drupal/

Sadly enough it did not work although the url rewriting guide of apache at http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/rewrite/rewrite_guide.html exactly mentions the same solution for a moved document root.

The solution described there is the following, which is very similar to my initial yet not working attempt:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^/$ /about/ [R]

Of course I also tried the “[R]” for redirect with the same problem. The redirect was not triggered. Fortunately I found another site with “very common mistakes” about rewrite rules (http://rewriterule.alantait.com/4/). It mentions that the RewriteRule does NOT have the beginning “/” which transforms my initial solution to

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule^$/drupal/

without the root slash and… finally it works.

I am wondering if this is an error in the apache documentation or if I just got something wrong. Maybe someone can brighten the for me. All others may consider the solution above ;-).

ACL Support in the Grails Spring Security Plugin

Posted on by phillme

I am very happy to announce that my enhancements to the Grails Spring Security Plug-in (Acegi Security Plug-in http://grails.org/plugin/acegi) based on Stephan February’s work were integrated into the main Plug-in source tree. Burt Beckwith, the Plug-In maintainer, did the integration including further features (e.g. annotation based configuration) and polishing.

The official announcement including an example application can be found on his blog (http://burtbeckwith.com/blog/?p=287).

Thank you for your great work Burt!