March 2008 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] zypper activity before downloading
by Volker Kuhlmann 04 Mar '08

04 Mar '08

When running a zypper dup, the questions for dependency resolution and for the licenses happen pretty quickly (< 30s), but what is it doing at 100% CPU for 10-15min(!) before starting to download the first package? Thanks, Volker -- Volker Kuhlmann is list0570 with the domain in header http://volker.dnsalias.net/ Please do not CC list postings to me. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Zypper behaviour - install/update as many packages as possible?
by Alex 04 Mar '08

04 Mar '08

Hello, a few question concerning the new shiny zypper. Definitely, everything has been pretty fast since the new version has been introduced in factory. I begin to like it better than any other package management system I have tried for SUSE over the years. However, some strange things remain for me: 1. When doing a factory update, zypper always insists on updating a few packages which definitely are already installed in the newest version. E.g. for bash or perl-base (and quite a few other packages), zypper with every update reproducably installs the same version of this packages over and over again. 2. Dependancies: Are there plans when a less greedy solver stragegy will be implemented? Right now, everything which is "recommended" will be installed, or pulled in when doing an update. Thus every factory update takes much time to download, it takes unnecessary disk space, and basically makes handling a clean and up-to-date factory system a pain. Why should I as a non-developper need gdb? Or kdelibs-doc and PolicyKit-doc? Or Java 1.5 besides 1.6? Why do I need a complete 32bit KDE3 on my 64bit KDE4 system? And so on. I'm just complaining because right now a simple factory update on my lean system has resulted in an 1,9 GB / 3h download as proposed by YaST, simply because zypper deems it necessary to 1) re-install already installed packages with the same version and 2) install dozens of additional packages I don't need, and keep on deinstalling all the time. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] AMD 690G + SuSE = ?
by Andreas van dem Helge 03 Mar '08

03 Mar '08

Anyone have experiance with AMD 690G-based mainboards and SuSE Linux? Does the fireglx driver work fine for the integrated graphics? --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Yast in release 17 Nice grey and very fast...!
by Oddball 03 Mar '08

03 Mar '08

Hi, Yast has been improved a lot, my respect. I hope it stays like this fast it is now. -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball (Now or never...) Besturingssysteem: Linux 2.6.24.1-6-default x86_64 Current user: oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1 System: openSUSE 11.0 (x86_64) Alpha2 KDE: 4.0.1 (KDE 4.0.1) "release 17" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] YaST Installer proposal
by Bryen 03 Mar '08

03 Mar '08

Yesterday I had a call from a colleague who was installing SLES 10 to a server with 1.9TB partition. She was a bit freaked out because this is a relatively new thing for her to do and after the first phase of Installer, "it is hanging on the splash screen for a very long time doing nothing!" I knew she had a very large partition and so I told her to hit ESC to see what is going on in the background, as I had my suspicions. Sure enough, it had that message "Drive hasn't been checked in 47829 days" (or whatever the specific line is.) I told her to just be patient and let it run its course because she's on a large partition. I've already been seeing this on my machines that have 750GB drives. She had actually tried this on two other similar servers that they had just bought and was starting to think it was some kind of driver issue with that particular model. Obviously, that wasn't the case. In this day and age of larger drives everywhere from the data center to the home user, wouldn't it be a good idea if we had some kind of message between 1st phase and 2nd phase where it says something like "Depending on the size of your hard drive, this may take a while." before going into the second phase of installation? Or maybe this has already been discussed and shot down, in which case, I'll shut up. Bryen --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] YaST Installer proposal
by Will Stephenson 03 Mar '08

03 Mar '08

(resending to list because Bryen has Reply-To: set... On Friday 29 February 2008 18:53:31 Bryen wrote: > Or maybe this has already been discussed and shot down, in which case, > I'll shut up. Not in the installer, but see bnc:344271 for the ext3 fsck on bootup, and bnc:309074 for another nasty installer filesystem mount gotcha. Will -- Will Stephenson Desktop Engineer KDE Team --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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