Bananajour on Linx (was Railscamp #5... The Good, the Bad and the Ugly)

[Andrew Grimm]

Hi Mark,

Thanks for encouraging me to try bananajour on Linux.

One thing I found surprising was that Fedora (and presumably redhat)
appears to have a different list of avahi-related packages.

A search for all packages with avahi in their name apparently came up with
avahi
avahi-autoipd
avahi-compat-howl
avahi-compat-howl-devel
avahi-compat-libdns_sd
avahi-compat-libdns_sd-devel
avahi-devel
avahi-dnsconfd
avahi-glib
avahi-gobject
avahi-gobject-devel
avahi-qt4
avahi-qt4-devel
avahi-sharp
avahi-tools
avahi-ui
avahi-ui-devel
avahi-ui-tools
kdnssd-avahi
kdnssd-avahi-devel
mod_dnssd
nss-mdns
systemtap-server

So, for example, there's no package called avahi-daemon

Bananajour seems to be mostly working after I installed
avahi-compat-libdns_sd-devel , though sometimes it's trying to do
stuff with computername.local , which I haven't got set up.

Thanks,

Andrew

On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 10:13 PM, Mark <mark.f....@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Andrew:
>
> I've been hacking around with Bonjour on Linux (Ubuntu amd64) quite a
> bit since the Railscamp and have started to do some posts on my blog
> about it.  So far I've talked about getting DNSSD (the Bonjour library
> that Bananajour uses) running on Ubuntu, and also how to use it with
> Ruby to register a webserver.  I also found a cool tool called
> Bonjourfoxy that let's you find Bonjour web servers right in Firefox.
>
> My next post is going to be on how to asynchronously discover other
> services on your network using Ruby and Bonjour.  If you're interested
> I'd appreciate some feedback on my Ubuntu installation instructions.
> Here are the links to the blog posts:
>
> http://markbennett.ca/2009/05/zeroconf-and-dnssd/
> http://markbennett.ca/2009/05/registering-a-zeroconf-service/
>
> On May 22, 4:55 pm, Andrew Grimm <andrew.j.gr...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I appreciated the separation of working areas from recreation areas.
>>
>> Git repository sharing had its issues.
>> * The gitorious server had problems. Were they the same problems encountered
>> at rc4?
>> * I assumed that as a non-mac user, I was SOL for bonjour based apps,
>> whereas there are some workarounds available (but only if you're connected
>> to the net before railscamp). Thanks to the other Linux user at the camp for
>> pointing that out.
>>
>> Gem and ruby documentation was good, but some of the javascript/whatever
>> magic was a little slow at times.
>>
>> Twetter is a work in progress. Where can I file the bug reports?
>>
>> Andrew
>>
>> On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 3:21 PM, Bodaniel Jeanes <m...@bjeanes.com> wrote:
>> > We did it have it working. It was going the majority of the time. It got
>> > turned off throughout the day a few times but we did have it working at
>> > duke.com. Next yeah we won't have it though. There will be dukejour, as it
>> > is far superior
>>
>> > On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 3:19 PM, Clifford Heath <clifford.he...@gmail.com>wrote:
>>
>> >> Why was there no Duke? I thought we found the source...
>> >> was there some reason it couldn't be make to work?
>>
>> >> Clifford Heath.
>>
>> >> On 22/05/2009, at 3:03 PM, Dylan Fogarty-MacDonald wrote:
>>
>> >> > The music situation wasn't really up to par with the previous camps,
>> >> > like the lack of duke etc.
>> >> > Other than that, which wasn't really an issue anyway, it was all
>> >> > good imo.
>>
>> >> > Dylan
>>
>> >> > 2009/5/22 Nigel Rausch <nig...@brisbanerails.com>
>> >> > Hi RC5'ers,
>>
>> >> > After Railscamp #4 there was a discussion (see link) about the what
>> >> > was good and what could be improved...
>>
>> >> > I would like to kick this off as the information could be useful for
>> >> > Railscamp #6 organisers...
>>
>> >> > There is lots of good/great things as all Railscamp have in common!
>> >> > Especially the socialising and environment...
>>
>> >> > For Railscamp #5 the things that were my highlights to previous:-
>>
>> >> > The Good:
>> >> > - All the normal stuff that makes railscamp awesome....
>> >> > - Round (wedding) tables (created more socialising)
>> >> > - No kitchen duties (Someone else washing the dishes)
>>
>> >> > The Bad:
>> >> > - Projector & Screen (should of hired a screen and proper data
>> >> > projector)
>>
>> >> > The Ugly:
>> >> > - Trying to read Duke's code (Sorry to insult the creators)
>> >> > - Me :)
>>
>> >> > Any other comments ?
>>
>> >> > Cheers,
>>
>> >> > Nigel Rausch
>> >> > Logical Plus
>> >> > Mob: 0418 72-8880
>>
>> >>http://groups.google.com/group/railscamp/browse_thread/thread/8327b98...
> >
>