January 2007 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] ifolder server on 10.3
by Ted Bullock 08 Jun '07

08 Jun '07

Will the ifolder server be available as a package in the 10.3 release or will it remain as an external package? -Ted Bullock --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] tiny-nvidia-installer removed from factory
by Jonh Arson 14 Feb '07

14 Feb '07

I wasn't what you can call happy when i found out this little software was removed from factory (and even less so when after reopening it 3 or 4 time the bug was marked as private). No real explanation given. This was by far the easiest and quickest way to get the Nvidia driver up and running and i demand explanation. WONTFIX, build it in the BS. WTF! there is no use to the package if its not right on the cd ... Now if you don't wanna include it in the default selection this is totally understandable, but why totally rip the package off ? --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] ext3 online resize
by Claes Bäckström 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

Hi Is there any possibility that we will see online resize of ext3 filesystems supported in 10.3 hopefully with yast? Warm Regards, Claes Backstrom --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] how to access developer svn repository
by Christian Schweingruber 09 Feb '07

09 Feb '07

Hi i have problems to acces the novell developer svn repository as it is described in http://developer.novell.com/wiki/index.php/Help:Subversion i've tried several ways: anonymous-acces (user and password anonymous) wit https, svn over ssh for example: https://anonymous:anonymous@forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/livecd the same thing mit my working novell developer login even with a registered ssh publickey. nothing works... can anyone help? thanks and greetings Christian Schweingruber PS: i was told in alt.os.linux.suse to ask in this list --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Replacing TuxKart by SuperTuxKart
by Dominique Leuenberger 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

Hi everybody, I was just a bit wondering: would it be possible for the development of 10.3 (I guess that's now the official name, isn't it?) to replace TuxKart with SuperTuxKart? I think TuxKart is way obsoleted by the latter one (current official release v0.2, a new version most likely due in mid feb, with new physics and full screen support) Packages are already available in the BS, and I think a 'merge' in the official tree could be very nice. I would even volunteer to continue the maintenance of the package build for this package (as I'm maintaining it already now in the BS). Is there already an 'official' way to get packages in the official distribution / replace obsolete ones ? I understand that such leaf applications should not be the highest priority, but I remember in 10.2 several users had problems with TK and 'converting' them to STK solved their issues and they could have fun. Looking forward for your comments, Dominique --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] TIFMxx Driver for 10.3
by Dominique Leuenberger 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

Hi everybody, I was wondering if it would be possible to get the driver for Texas Instrument FlashMedia Cardreaders in the next version of openSUSE. The driver is available at http://developer.berlios.de/projects/tifmxx/ (Version 0.6 so far) and I tested it on 10.2; it works perfect.On the web page it's mentioned that never versions are part of the main kernel... but so far, with 2.6.20-rc5 I did not manage to get that thing working. (ok: I did not compile an own kernel on my Notebook yet....) It would be very nice to get support for many more card readers by this driver (TI FM is, as far as I could fine, used in many notebooks, like for example the IBM/Lenovo ThinkPad z61m) Regards, Dominique --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Most Annoying Bugs - and internal AlphaXplus builds
by Andreas Jaeger 02 Feb '07

02 Feb '07

In between the external Alpha builds, we make one internal Alpha build - this week the Alpha0plus. Are you interested in a most annoying Bugs section for these as well? This should show you the current state of FACTORY and inform you about known bugs. I would create such a page if there is interest, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)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

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[opensuse-factory] Minutes distribution meeting 2007-01-25
by Andreas Jaeger 31 Jan '07

31 Jan '07

Here're the minutes from last week's meeting. Topics: * Use fast linking style: The linker & glibc in 10.2 support the --hash-style=both (or just gnu) flag, which halves linking time [ still a major cost on all startup]. Unfortunately - it seems we only re-compiled glibc with this flag, and not all the other applications in the system :-) Risk wise this is a no-brainer, Red Hat are already shipping with --hash-style=gnu [ this is unfortunate since the binaries are then not back-compatible ]. We should most likely use --hash-style=both (at some small size penalty) - but after some time switch over to --hash-style=gnu to save size. The size difference is < 0.1 %. We will enable it by default. * libata per default (see minutes from last time - the partitioning question is still open) Moved to next meeting since one (critical) participant was missing. * Enable -fstack-protector for the new distros for every package by default Red Hat according to their press statements builds all of their distribution using -fstack-protector, the heuristic stack overflow detection. While we use -D_FORTIFY_SOURCE=2, this one only covers known arrays. I think we should also enable -fstack-protector for all packages. If we enable it by default in the compiler, all software will automatically get the benefit too. To analyze what effect this will have on performance we will run SPEC2000 and build one distribution with and one without the flag. -fstack-protector only adds protection to those functions that might overflow but not to all (-fstack-protector=all would instrument all). We will add it to RPM_OPT_FLAGS at the end of next week. AI: Run SPEC2000 AI: Build Alpha0plus without -fstack-protector and then rebuild with it. AI: Analyze performance and size differences. * Handling of compat packages These packages are inherited from old releases. The question is which libraries are really needed. AI: to ask on opensuse mailing list what is needed and start working on tracking list. Proposal: We consider having a library naming proposal that includes the version number so that people can easily grab an library RPM package from an older distro if needed. AI: write up proposal and discuss it on opensuse-packaging. * Avahi/mDNSResponder compatibility: Please assign all bugs to gnome-maintainers, they will look at it from March on. * Blacklisting /opt/gnome We can blacklist this path in autobuild and then packages still using /opt/gnome for FACTORY will not build. We will first prepare a list of packages still using it and later blacklist. Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)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

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[opensuse-factory] ATI drivers on Factory
by Vincenzo Barranco 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

Hi all, Is it possible to have ATI fglrx drivers on factory distribution? If yes what is the method? Thanks and regards, Vincenzo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-factory] TIFMxx Driver for 10.3
by Dominique Leuenberger 30 Jan '07

30 Jan '07

>>> On 29-01-2007 at 11:57, Bernhard Walle <bwalle(a)suse.de> wrote: >Hello, > >* Dominique Leuenberger <Dominique.Leuenberger(a)TMF-Group.com> [2007-01-29 10:39]: >> >> I was wondering if it would be possible to get the driver for Texas >> Instrument FlashMedia Cardreaders in the next version of openSUSE. The >> driver is available at http://developer.berlios.de/projects/tifmxx/ >> (Version 0.6 so far) and I tested it on 10.2; it works perfect.On the >> web page it's mentioned that never versions are part of the main >> kernel... but so far, with 2.6.20-rc5 I did not manage to get that thing >> working. (ok: I did not compile an own kernel on my Notebook yet....) > >if it's in the mainline kernel, yes, openSUSE 10.3 will have it. :) >It will be based on at least 2.6.20. Bernhard, as I said: with 2.6.20-rc5 (did not get the latest upgrade to rc6 yet) the reader is not working. I am completely aware that 10.3 will be on 2.6.20 kernel. And as I said: I did not have a look in the kernel config yet.. so maybe the module is just not build or whatever... some fundamental answers would help more here. Dominique PS: Sometimes I'm wondering if people reply to have replied without even reading some posts or thinking about them. Is there sort of contest who is posting most replies? Then I would like to participate too. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org

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