Ubuntu Chile wishes you a Merry Christmas and a prospering New Year.

CAFF it’s part of the signing-party package (various OpenPGP related tools). Also we need the gnupg-agent to store our passphrase during the signing. Lets install them in Ubuntu.

$ sudo apt-get install signing-party gnupg-agent

After that, the best idea is to configure a relay host to send the emails. I followed a really good guide based on Exim4, that just works

Also we need to configure the default behaviour of CAFF, through a configuration file (.caffrc under our home directory).  You can follow this example.

# .caffrc -- vim:ft=perl:
# This file is in perl(1) format - see caff(1) for details.

$CONFIG{'owner'} = 'Juan Perez';
$CONFIG{'email'} = 'juan@perez.com';
$CONFIG{'gpg-sign-args'} = "save";
$CONFIG{'keyserver'} = "pgp.mit.edu";
$CONFIG{'caffhome'}    = $ENV{'HOME'}.'/.caff';
# Specify the last 16 characters of your key
$CONFIG{'keyid'} = [ qw{1D4FE8D976862225} ];
$CONFIG{'also-encrypt-to'} = [ qw{1D4FE8D976862225} ];

# Mail template to use for the encrypted part
$CONFIG{'mail-template'} = << 'EOM';
Hi,

please find attached the user id{(scalar @uids >= 2 ? 's' : '')}
{foreach $uid (@uids) {
$OUT .= "\t".$uid."\n";
};}of your key {$key} signed by me.

If you have multiple user ids, I sent the signature for each user id
separately to that user id's associated email address. This gives you
also the chance to upload only specific signatures if you don't want
my signature on all your user ids.

You can import the signatures by running each through `gpg --import`.

Note that I did not upload your key to any keyservers. If you want this
new signature to be available to others, please upload it yourself.
With GnuPG this can be done using
gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --send-key {$key}

If you have any questions, don't hesitate to ask.

Regards,

{$owner}
EOM

Before the signing process, we have to start the gpg-agent. If you got problems launching the agent, please read the following reference .

$ eval `gpg-agent --daemon`

If your KSP host gave you a keyring, the following command must be used to sign the keys. The “m” argument specifies to send mail (using the template described previously) and the “R” prevents to retrieve keys from a keyserver. We’ll use a keyring file as input.

$ caff -mR --keyfile <keyring-file>

As always, many people listed on the keyring don’t participate in the KSP. Is this case I suggest to create a file with the attendants IDs only, such as the following.

B9270F9D
1773ED49
3114452A
1D814B8E
18DC68C4
7E633BAE

Then, we have to modify the previous command.

$ caff -mR --keyfile <keyring-file> `cat <keys-to-sign>`

If you want to sign only one key and you have its ID, don’t worry. CAFF will save the day. It can retrieve the key.

$ caff -m yes <key-ID>

Finally, the batch process starts and we have to sign the keys. Enjoy the day because CAFF will help you to finish this tasks without pain.

References: Waikato Linux User Group, CAFF man page

I want to say thanks to everyone involved on this cycle. We are improving at every release and our community is becoming stronger and bigger.

Welcome Lucid Lynx!

The Latin American Free Software Installfest (FLISOL)  is the one of the biggest free software events in the world. Its main goal is to promote the use of free software, sharing its philosophy, advances and development.

When? Simultaneously in all Latin America in April 25th, with some exceptions.

Where? It will be going to take place in 20 countries and more than 200 cities.

Ubuntu? Many Ubuntu Local Communities will participate.

In Chile, Ubuntu-cl will be in Iquique, Valparaíso, Santiago, Talca, Valdivia, Puerto Montt and Punta Arenas with booths, demos, hand out CD’s, talks, workshops and installs.

More information about FLISoL in Chile: http://www.flisol.cl/

See you there!

AFAIK Ubuntu is using http://security.ubuntu.com to provide security updates for its packages. What about security section under http://archive.ubuntu.com ? It will be dropped if favor of http://security.ubuntu.com ?

I’ll apreciate any information about that.

Thanks!

Days ago members of our LoCo team noticed that a Chilean consulting company is using part of the Ubuntu logo (the circle of friends)

It’s look familiar … or not? What we should do as LoCo Team?

We’ll appreciate any kind of help.

Cheers!

UPDATE: This post had a good effect from Convoca guys. They changed its logo into

Thanks to everyone who gave me ideas to solve this conflict.

• Santiago

Place: Elkika Providencia (Diego de Velázquez 2109 casi esquina Guardia Vieja

Time: 19:30

• Valparaíso

Place: Fuente Brazil (Valparaíso) Av. Brazil Esquina Sn. Ingnacio.  (Reference Map)

Time: 18:00

Remember to follow people wearing t-shirts like this one…

I’m using Hardy Heron up to date and I wanted to figure out about this potential problem using a useful tool: vrms.

mruiz@numbat:~$ vrms -s
human-icon-theme
linux-restricted-modules-2.6.24-16-generic
linux-restricted-modules-common
linux-restricted-modules-generic
skype
tangerine-icon-theme
unrar

OK… let’s review the results.

linux-restricted-* is part of the restricted section. unrar is from multiverse and skype is a third-party package. But human-icon-theme and tangerine-icon-theme are part of main.

Then, I can assume that Ubuntu includes non-free components by default without inform to their users. Or not ?

EDIT: To be accurate, I changed non-free software by non-free components

~$ echo ubuntu-cl > ~/.5-a-day-team

After that, Five-a-day stats will be representative

Cheers!

mruiz@hardy:~/devel/upgrades/mplinuxman$ linda -v -f long -t E,I,W,X *.changes
Roses are red, violets are blue,
lintian is dead and Culus goes moo.
V: Processing file: mplinuxman_1.5-0ubuntu1_source.changes
V: Processing file: mplinuxman_1.5-0ubuntu1.dsc
Package: mplinuxman
Type: Warning
Description: 3.7.3 is a newer Standards-Version.

Happy Valentin’s day!