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Development news, and bug in the stable version
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Over the last months, there has been some (very slow) development.
We have had the PICA CVS in SF for quite some time now, and a new
developer has joined the project (Sean E. Millichamp). You can check
out the CVS version (devel-0_5 tag) and try for yourself.
Probably there are some things broken, but it's basically usable. If
you find bugs, please report them (with a patch, if you can). We
have refactored many things in the code so it's easier to fix stuff
and add stuff. Moreover, we have tests (currently 88) to make sure
things don't break (more than one time) without us knowing it.
On the other hand, a bug has been found in PICA (both branches),
regarding file permissions. It's documented in http://bugs.debian.org/265377.
It's fixed in CVS (again, both branches). We will release an updated
stable PICA soon.
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We know it's been a looong time, but we have been very
busy. We have been working a little in the 0.5.x bleeding branch
(and Miguel's using PICA 0.4.1 daily), and we hope to have soon the
CVS online at SF. I have updated our e-mail addresses so you can
contact us directly (sorry about that, I didn't notice until now),
although we prefer talking in the mailing list so everybody can
"hear" it. Stay tuned :-)
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PICA 0.4.1 has been released. It's only a minor bugfix and
documentation update release, so don't expect anything
spectacular. In the meantime, we're working in the new 0.5.x
development branch, with a partial rewrite and much enhanced
installation (with the standard Perl modules). Enjoy!
Download pica-0.4.1!
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I've just released the latest version of PICALib (0.1.5).
This version includes a lot of bugfixes, a new directory
layout, and a new Antivirus module.
Users are encouraged to update because previous releases of
PICALib included a broken version of PIFIA that it's fixed in
PICALib 0.1.5
For more info see
ChangeLog
Download picalib-0.1.5!
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Hi all! The first release candidate for PICA 0.4.0 is out.
It basically includes some minor bugfixes and updated
documentation. For more info see
ChangeLog
Download pica-0.4.0rc1!
NOTE! To install the RPM package you will need the
packages perl-Parse-Yapp and perl-File-NCopy. You can get
them
here
BTW, the last pica version (3.1415...) was obviously a
april fool's joke ;)
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PICA 3.1415926535 Released
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Hi, pals.
We've just released a new PICA version. Here's the changelog:
pica (3.1415926535) unstable; urgency=high
- Added Qt-based GUI, available on X, embedded devices and also on
console thanks to Qtconsole, http://qtconsole.nl.linux.org/
- Now PICA stands for "PHP Installation and Configuration Agent",
because Perl didn't give us enough flexibility and is throughly
inconsistent about naming conventions
- Now a non-integer (even *irrational*) number of objects/hosts can
be processed. We have tested it with a googolplex [1] hosts and it
works!! (yes, we had problems getting IP's for so may hosts ;)
- As a result, PICA now depends on PDL (Perl Data Language, see
http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=PDL)
-- M. Armas, E. Manchado <{kuko,zoso}@loofslirpa.org> Mon, 1 Apr 2002
[1] see http://public.logica.com/~stepneys/cyc/g/googol.htm
Collect them all!
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I've just released the latest version of PICALib (0.1.4).
This new release adds an alarm to automagically update the Snort
alert files. It also fixes some bugs...
For more info see
ChangeLog
Download picalib-0.1.4!
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I've just released the latest version of PICALib (0.1.3).
This new release fixes a small bug in the Firewall module.
For more info see
ChangeLog
Download picalib-0.1.3!
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I've just released the latest version of PICALib (0.1.2).
This new release includes modules for DNS, DHCP, Snort and an
iptables based firewall. For more info see
ChangeLog
Download picalib-0.1.2!
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Debian Package for PICA 0.3.8
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We have just published the PICA-0.3.8 Debian package.
Go get it!
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We have released PICA 0.3.8 and PICALib 0.1.0. We
haven't got Debian packages by now, see downloads
at sourceforge site.
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At last we've released PICA 0.3.7. It features a
number of bugfixes and some minor improvements
(for example, in directory handling). In some time
we will release (at last!) PICA 0.4.0.
The
libfile-ncopy-perl
package has been updated too. You can see it all at the downloads
section.
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Hey, PICA 0.3.6 is out! Check it out. Some minor improvements and
fixes, but you may have been waiting for one of them: recursive (but
verbatim) copying. That is, now you can specify a directory as an
object and it will be copied recursively. The bad news is that now
you need the Perl package File::NCopy. For you Debian users, there is
a libfile-ncopy-perl
package here in the downloads
section.
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PICA lib and PICA 0.3.6 coming soon!
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Soon we'll release what we call the PICA lib, a bunch of examples,
alarms and distribution files to help you do your work. PICA 0.3.6
will be released soon, too. It features some minor enhancements and
updates.
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At last PICA 0.3.5 is here. Some tiny new features, documentation
updates and improved binary packages. See the ChangeLog, as always.
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I've uploaded a new version, pica-current.tar.gz, which adds
three new switches, --with-picaconf,
--with-hostsconf and --with-objectsconf, to change
the default configuration files path. I've also patched a bug in
pica-0.3.4a (thanks buzzz).
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New host attribute and bugfixes
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I've uploaded a new version, pica 0.3.4a, which adds a new host
attribute, `sshuser', and fixes some little bugs.
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At last PICA 0.3.4 is released! Well, this version is (probably) the
most stable PICA release ever made (yes, including 0.2.0 in the
stable branch). And, more importantly, now PICA features both deb and
RPM packages, and the smoothest installation (just install the
package, or make install at command line, if you got the
sources package). The default configuration files are also fine. In
the case of sources package, you'll have to copy them yourself, of
course, but you can do it for the first time with make
installconf.
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Updated link for the PICA article
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Due to the new SysAdmin issue, the PICA
article URL has changed.
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Now you have a mailing
list to bug us with questions about both using pica and future
developments.
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Wow! I don't know how so many bugs could avoid my eyeballs!
Please upgrade right now, almost no new features, but lots
(believe me) of very important bugs shallow. See the ChangeLog.
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PICA 0.3.3 soon to be released
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Soon there will be a new PICA release. It's just a bug fix one, so
don't expect new features. There are several quite important
bug fixes, and now PICA has a Makefile for easy installing. Stay
tuned.
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0.3.2 is here, pals! Among other things, it includes the new hot
PIFIA lib! The new PIFIA lib is a Perl package which will contain
all the things you'll ever need (well, almost) to write your PICA
alarms, including variable persistence, through an elegant
new environment (perseval). It looks like this:
use vars qw($foo);
perseval {
# your code here, messing with $foo
} preserve '$foo';
See the ChangeLog and documentation for
details.
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Soon, there will be a web article in SysAdmin explaining PICA. Stay
tunned!
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Version 0.3.1 finally out!
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New PICA bleeding version! There is a ChangeLog, so read it if you want to
:-).
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I've added some documentation to both branches. The bleeding one has
a TeX file with an introductory manual. Some things are not
implemented yet, but mostly is a very useful document. The stable
branch doesn't have documentation yet (wait for the article in
SysAdmin). Go check out the
documentation and tell us what you think!
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By now there's no documentation. We've written an article for
SysAdmin, though, that is a good start. They are going to publish it
on the web. When it's ready, we will link it from this page as the
"official" documentation for PICA 0.2.0.
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It's not just like "First post!", but sorta :-)
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WTF, as you have probably figured out, stands for ``What's this
fancyness'' :-). Well, this fancyness is a program (similar
to PIKT) to administer machines. It can copy files to several
machines, with modifications (minor or not), and help you manage
alarms.
OK, OK, but, why the hell did you do this?
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Go get PICA in sources, debian package or RPM package in the download
page. See also the ChangeLog, if you
wish.
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Q: I don't know Perl. What can I do?
A: There are two solutions; the Good
Solution (TM), learn Perl; the Bad Solution (TM), use another program
:-)
Q: Why are those magenta color changes
there?
A: Heck! You're viewing this page with
Internet Explorer. If you use that browser.... I don't think you need
this program too much :-)
Q: What the hell is the
"bleeding" version?
A: It's sort of a development version...
Only it's more like a CVS nightly snapshot. I like that expression
because it suggests both that it's a "bleeding edge"
version and that it probably bleeds :-)
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