October 2006 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] Uninstallable inst-source?
by Anders Norrbring 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

It seems like the current inst-source from Eberhard is invalid.. Wrong boot image for product, and when fired up anyway, there are dependency errors. I choose KDE as the installation option, and att the "Installation Settings" screen next, I'm presented with "Cannot solve dependencies automatically. Manual intervention is required." in the software section. So, I go to it, and see this: pattern:kde_basis-10.2-49.i586[20061013-074645] Error!>>There are no installable providers of kpowersave for pattern:kde_basis-10.2-49.i586[20061013-074645] sax2-libsax-perl-8.1-31.i586[20061013-074645] Error!>>There are no installable providers of sax2-libsax for sax2-libsax-perl-8.1-31.i586[20061013-074645] Is it known, or is it time for a bugzilla entry? -- Anders Norrbring Norrbring Consulting

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[opensuse-factory] Topics for tomorrow's dist meeting
by Andreas Jaeger 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

We have so far two compiler optimization topics: * Building for i686 in the future (Bug 186074) * Building with compiler flags -Os vs. -O2 Anything else we should discuss or any comments on these? Thanks, 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 dist meeting 2006-10-12
by Andreas Jaeger 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

Here're the minutes from our discussion, thanks for the comments you made. We added a last-minute topic as well, Andreas Building for i686 ================= Some comments on the situation: * some cpus have uname of i686 but do not support for the full i686 instruction set used by the compiler if compiling for i686, e.g. VIA Epia C3. * SUSE Linux runs on smaller systems as well, e.g. VIA boxes, for set top boxes and routers. * For most applications compilation on i686 will not make a speed difference for the user. * We optimize for i686 but use i586 instructions, the discussion is about using i686 instructions as well. * We already supply a few packages, e.g. glibc, for both i586 and i686. * We could add more packages as both i586 and i686. This is a question of size on ftp/media as well. * One way would be to switch at run-time between different code paths (one for i586, one for i686). * We should evaluate to setup i686 as an additional target in the build service for a couple of packages to rebuild with different compile flags. AI: Buildservice team to evaluate. We decided to stay as is for 32-bit x86 and use the i586 instruction since we would loose otherwise support for some existing hardware. Default compile flags: -O2 vs. -Os ================================== We run SPECcpu2000 benchmarks on x86-64 to compare -Os and -O2. The results are 1011 (-Os) and 1140 (-O2) for SPECint and for a subset of SPECfp 1202 (-Os) vs. 1270 (-O2), so the speed difference is too high to make this change. Overall .text size of all benchmarks: 6038603 (-Os) vs 6816414 (-O2) With filesize begin nearly exactly 1MB larger in both cases. We'll stay with -O2. Avahi and mDNSresponder ======================= We plan to use avahi by default and will drop mDNSresponder for openSUSE. Avahi has a mDNSresponder compatibility library so that no changes should be needed. We plan to concentrate on avahi since it has the better code. AI: AJ: Evaluate whether to do for openSUSE 10.2 or 10.3. 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] SPAM: JFS is back as an install-time filesystem - thank you!
by Per Jessen 13 Oct '06

13 Oct '06

I haven't noticed anything official on this, but I've just seen JFS pop up as an install-time filesystem - cool! Thanks guys - it is much appreciated. /Per Jessen, Zürich --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Where Is The Factory Boot CD Image?
by Randall R Schulz 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

Hi, I have successfully installed 10.2 Alpha5 on a new system. With the exception of one of its two (different) Marvel Ethernet interfaces being unrecognized (and the known issues), it's working fairly well. Now I'm considering installing factory packages. According to <http://en.opensuse.org/Development_Version> there is a network install option and I'd like to give this a try. It refers to a boot CD image that is used to start the system up and perform network installs: -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- Workflow for the Internet Installation 1. Download the boot CD image from the table below 2. Burn the boot CD image. 3. Boot your computer from the boot CD. 4. Point the YaST installer to the installation repository (by pressing F3 and then F4) 5. Install SUSE Linux. -==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==--==- Unfortunately, I cannot find the boot CD image--I can't even find the "table below." Can someone point me to the boot CD image? Thanks. Randall Schulz --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] alpha2 - YasT2 icons
by Per Jessen 12 Oct '06

12 Oct '06

They look at little tired and dull, IMO. /Per Jessen, Zürich --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] 2.6.18 kernel add Ti flashmedia driver request
by Truth 11 Oct '06

11 Oct '06

For opensuse 10.2 kernel 2.16.18 , I recomend 2 patches from mm adding support for Ti 21xx/12xx Flashmedia Reader. http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18/2.6.18-mm… http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18/2.6.18-mm… I've been testing this driver on 2 x86_64 openSUSE 10.1( with self compiled 2.6.18 kernel ) laptops for a week. It works rather stable for me though not full featured. I guess it's better to have this than nothing for Ti card readers. And this is so far what we have. Related Project page: http://developer.berlios.de/projects/tifmxx btw, YaST identifies the card reader successfully (ROCKS!!) but deals with it in the ide-controller section. Should I request another YaST card reader module in the future? Just a suggestion. Is that possible to implement this feature in openSUSE 10.2 or is it too late, or maybe early because the driver is still beta? Regards, Thruth

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[opensuse-factory] SPAM: factory
by Peter Czanik 11 Oct '06

11 Oct '06

Hello, What happened to 'factory'? x86 has not seen an update for 5 days, PPC for almost 1.5 weeks... Bye, -- CzP http://peter.czanik.hu/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Re: [opensuse-announce] openSUSE 10.2 Alpha5 (DVDs, i386, x86-64 only) available
by Peter Czanik 11 Oct '06

11 Oct '06

Hello, Andreas Jaeger wrote: > We only have DVDs for i386 and x86-64 this time. Any news, if and when a PPC version of alpha5 will be available? Or at least, when factory will be synced out next time? Factory PPC has not seen any real updates for more than a week! Bye, -- CzP http://peter.czanik.hu/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] SPAM: parted cannot modify the partitioning of /dev/ida/c0d0 ?
by Per Jessen 11 Oct '06

11 Oct '06

Has something changing wrt partitioning in Alpha3-4-5 ? I'm pretty certain I've never seen this message pop up before, and I've a lot of installs to Compaq SMART array drives. /Per Jessen, Zürich --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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