March 2007 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] brp scripts in autobuild
by andreas.hanke＠gmx-topmail.de 19 Aug '07

19 Aug '07

Hi, from various discussions in bug reports I know that brp scripts for the following are installed in autobuild: - check whether .la files have an empty dependency_libs line - check whether .la and .pc files have references to the build root - check whether .desktop files have all their icons installed Are these scripts publicly available somewhere? They are not distributed with rpm, build or osc and I could not find them anywhere else either. If not, would it be possible to publish these (and others, if present)? Andreas Hanke -- Der GMX SmartSurfer hilft bis zu 70% Ihrer Onlinekosten zu sparen! Ideal für Modem und ISDN: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/smartsurfer --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Aqsis package for inclusion within openSUSE 10.3 (factory) repo
by Aqsis Team 18 Jun '07

18 Jun '07

Hi all, I've been working with Marcus (darix) on your BuildService team to create an official (open)SUSE package for our open source rendering solution - Aqsis. http://software.opensuse.org/download/graphics:/rendering Though the packages will remain on the BS for older (open)SUSE releases we would like to have Aqsis included within your official repository for the forthcoming 10.3 release. http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/10.3/repo/oss Our efforts are both stable and tested and we're happy to maintain this package for the necessary duration of your release (currently 2 active maintainers). This would be great help to our project as well as much appreciated, complimenting our existing packages within the official Fedora and Mandriva repos. Many thanks in advance, Leon Tony Atkinson Aqsis Team Member www.aqsis.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] 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] Bug Day/s Lets Get it going.
by Boyd Lynn Gerber 04 Jun '07

04 Jun '07

Hello, With all the great discussion on the topic, We need to get it going. I like the IRC, but really think a summeray is needed on the email list to keep consistency across time zone. -- Boyd Gerber <gerberb(a)zenez.com> ZENEZ 1042 East Fort Union #135, Midvale Utah 84047 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Linux audio foks
by Donn Washburn 05 May '07

05 May '07

Hey Group; I have the record player > phono In > line out going to the sound card Line In. Hopefully the impedance is good enough and the level is OK. It plays out of the speakers and sounds OK also. Now for the question ? I would like to save the music as a mp3, ogg or whatever. Kmix spots it as a Line Input. What is needed to capture it and put it in a file. Say like a mixer record output -- 73 de Donn Washburn 307 Savoy Street Email: " n5xwb(a)hal-pc.org " Sugar Land, TX 77478 LL# 1.281.242.3256 Ham Callsign N5XWB HAMs : " n5xwb(a)arrl.net " VoIP via Gizmo: bmw_87kbike / via Skype: n5xwbg BMW MOA #: 4146 - Ambassador " http://counter.li.org " #279316 Did you know? The transistor was invented by three white men. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Java packages changes for 10.3
by Daniel Bornkessel 03 May '07

03 May '07

Hi. In 10.3, regarding Java, we want to do the following changes: - tomcat5 will be replaced by tomcat55 - we have jboss and geronimo already ... our jonas package is outdated anyways ... thus, dropping: jonas jonas-client jonas-docs jonas-examples - the avalon framework does not exist anymore ... dropping: avalon-framework avalon-framework-javadoc avalon-framework-manual In order to clean openSUSE from non-oss packages, we want to do the following changes: - jai has strict licensing ... if there are no strong objections we would like to drop this package. - java-1.4.2-sun will be dropped, versions 1.5.0, 1.6.0 (DLJ licensed) and gcj-compat 1.4.2 will be included. The DLJ-license is a special lincense that was introduced by Sun in 2006 for re-distributors of Sun Java (see http://download.java.net/dlj/DLJ-FAQ.html) It's less strict and more precise on what is allowed and what is not regarding the re-distribution. Apart from that, nothing visible will change for the users -- Sun Java will still be in the openSUSE non-oss section. - the following packages will be replaced by gnu-javamail which has an open source license: javamail javamail-demo javamail-javadoc javamail-manual javamail-monolithic - the following packages will be replaced by gnu-jaf which has an open source license:: jaf jaf-demo jaf-javadoc jaf-manual - the following packages will be replaced by classpath-jta which has an open source license: jta jta-javadoc - the following packages will be replaced by mx4j which has an open source license: jmx jmx-javadoc The packages that get dropped due to their licenses are usually licensed with the Sun Binary license which is not really the type of license we want to include in openSUSE if free oss counterparts are available. Any thoughts and comments on this are very welcome :) Regards, Daniel --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] vmware WS install of 10.3 A2+
by Edward Dunagin 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

I just installed the above and WOW! I am using it now, and my complements to all that worked on it. The install went so smooth, I could not believe it. Thanks Guy and Gals,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,ed -- Edward Dunagin-Dunigan-Dunnigan 4646 Glenwood Drive Bozeman, MT 59718 mobile 406-570-0992 Landline 406-556-7282 http://doas.montanalinux.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] meeting minutes of last dist meeting
by Andreas Jaeger 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

Our last meeting was moved by a week and I forgot to inform you. Sorry about that. Here're the minutes, Andreas * libata per default We're going to use libata by default for future products. For 10.3, we will implement the following in YaST to handle disks with more than 15 partitions (libata uses the SCSI stack that only allows 15 partitions): If YaST recognizes that an IDE disk has more than 15 partitions and we use libata on it, YaST will display something like the following message: "openSUSE is switching to the new IDE drivers using the libata modules. These do only support partitions with up to 15 partitions. You have the following options with openSUSE 10.3: - Use the old IDE drivers: Boot again and add 'hwprobe=-modules.pata' as argument to the kernel - Repartition your system so that maximal 15 partitions are used. To repartition, use your existing operating system. In the future only the new libata drivers will be supported, so we advice to repartition. Installation will be aborted now." * Hal vs USB backends for cups. The use cases we like to solve are: * Detecting a printer when plugged into the machine and prompting the user to configure it - or even automatically selecting a driver like OS X and have the printer just work. * Not needing root to configure a printer * Detecting when a printer is connected/disconnected and offering virtual feedback * Ability to remove printers from copy when they are unplugged Basically cups is using its USB backend to detect printers. There is a hal backend we are kind of using for GNOME (Fedora also ships it) that only partially integrates. Since the rest of our hardware detection is running through hal, this seems like a sensible move. The discussion showed that there are many open questions and a smaller group will discuss how to move forward. * Splitting languages out of packages Usecases: * Reduced image size especially of thin clients and Live images * Reduced image size for distributions * Updating of single translation should be easier We do not want to make a $lang sub-package for every package, this way we get far too many. The following ideas exist: * convince upstream, e.g. GNOME, to do this similar to KDE. But this will only solve one part of the problem and not the base system. * Alter autobuild to split out languages itself. * Use the lang support in RPM, ie: rpm -i --define "_install_langs fr:es" <package> This would break delta RPMs. The idea is to add to spec file of packages a new rpm macro so that subpackages are created and then related subpackages are repacked for each language in our build system. This way we would get e.g. basesystem-$lang and gnome-$lang packages and those can then be installed. -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-factory] Howto to get package to oss-repository?
by Sami Vento 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

Hi! I wonder, if this is right list to ask, but what is the way to get libvoikko and OpenOffice-voikko to the official openSUSE oss -repository? Libvoikko is excelent finnish spellcheckin and hyphenation library. OpenOffice-voikko is uno-package, which provides libvoikko -support for OpenOffice. Both of this are already part of official packages in ubuntu, debian and mandriva. -- Sami Vento --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Do java apps work for you in Konqueror?
by Silviu Marin-Caea 30 Mar '07

30 Mar '07

http://www.physics.ox.ac.uk/jpc/Demo.html I'm using Alpha2Plus (Factory). The page above does not work, nor other java applications. Not sure if this is a distribution bug or something that I have screwed up on my machine. I have tried java 1.5.0u11 and 1.4.2 from distribution and java 1.6 from java.sun.com. None of these work. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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