2006/9/4, Andreas Jaeger :

Here're my minutes from the last meeting.

PolicyKit / ResMgr ==================

PolicyKit is a control instance that can be asked before performing an action and therefore can restrict what a user can do on a desktop. It's a system wide daemon, currently running as root.

Problems: * Another daemon * possible code quality * overlaps in parts with resmgr

Resmgr grants access via ACL to logged in users which is something that PolicyKit does not handle.

The consensus was that the features of PolicyKit are liked. We would like to implement the features of resmgr in PolicyKit and drop resmgr so that we have only one daemon running. This needs further evaluation.

In 10.2 only hal mounter will use PolicyKit. We plan to have the integration with resmgr done for 10.3.

Cryptofs ========

We currently use crypto-loop to setup crypt-partitions. It has been proposed to use the new dm-cryptoloop with LUKS extensions. Since this needs changes in YaST and the boot scripts, it might not be doable for 10.2. We'll investigate this now.

Removing Build Dependencies ===========================

The minimal set of packages to bootstrap the by default added packages (those that will be added if BuildRequires is empty) consists of 209 packages. The added packages contain some convenience packages like vim and strace for debugging.

We discussed the goal to identify a small set of core packages for bootstrapping or for a core distribution. The discussion will continue on mailing lists, the people at the meeting did not see that any directly needed action.

GNOME 2.16 and /usr ===================

Currently factory has three bugs, the major one is a broken metacity which has just been fixed. The goal is to get everything this until 2006-09-01 into the distribution so that we can do basic tests and then have Alpha4 with GNOME 2.15.92.

Once GNOME 2.16 is working properly, the team plans to move from /opt/gnome to /use. This is done in separate steps to make debugging easier.

"/use" complains Posix standar? Cheers --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org

Do You will to continue supporting KDE? Cheers 2006/9/4, Andreas Jaeger :

Here're my minutes from the last meeting.

PolicyKit / ResMgr ==================

PolicyKit is a control instance that can be asked before performing an action and therefore can restrict what a user can do on a desktop. It's a system wide daemon, currently running as root.

Problems: * Another daemon * possible code quality * overlaps in parts with resmgr

Resmgr grants access via ACL to logged in users which is something that PolicyKit does not handle.

The consensus was that the features of PolicyKit are liked. We would like to implement the features of resmgr in PolicyKit and drop resmgr so that we have only one daemon running. This needs further evaluation.

In 10.2 only hal mounter will use PolicyKit. We plan to have the integration with resmgr done for 10.3.

Cryptofs ========

We currently use crypto-loop to setup crypt-partitions. It has been proposed to use the new dm-cryptoloop with LUKS extensions. Since this needs changes in YaST and the boot scripts, it might not be doable for 10.2. We'll investigate this now.

Removing Build Dependencies ===========================

The minimal set of packages to bootstrap the by default added packages (those that will be added if BuildRequires is empty) consists of 209 packages. The added packages contain some convenience packages like vim and strace for debugging.

We discussed the goal to identify a small set of core packages for bootstrapping or for a core distribution. The discussion will continue on mailing lists, the people at the meeting did not see that any directly needed action.

GNOME 2.16 and /usr ===================

Currently factory has three bugs, the major one is a broken metacity which has just been fixed. The goal is to get everything this until 2006-09-01 into the distribution so that we can do basic tests and then have Alpha4 with GNOME 2.15.92.

Once GNOME 2.16 is working properly, the team plans to move from /opt/gnome to /use. This is done in separate steps to make debugging easier. This move has to be done by the end of september - in time for Alpha5. If not, it will be done for 10.3.

GNOME will use the %configure and %install rpm macros.

No objections from anybody.

Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj@suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

--------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org