July 2009 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] new Firefox feature (call for help)
by Wolfgang Rosenauer 10 Jul '09

10 Jul '09

Hi, recently there was a feature request on the opensuse list (http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse/2009-06/msg00297.html) about the fact that openSUSE's Firefox doesn't offer the packaged plugins in its plugin finder service. So I looked into it what would be needed to support that feature in our Firefox and created https://features.opensuse.org/306475 out of it. I'm copying my last comment here for completeness: ---------- A short overview what's needed to make this feature as complete as possible: 1. client support in Firefox to ask a webservice for available plugins and hook into the package installer to install the chosen plugin 2. a webservice which provides the required data to Firefox 3. a job which fills the webservice's database with available plugins The code for 1. and 2. is done in the Firefox extension "susefox" now. It's already pretty complete and usable (only some minor issues left and translations missing). For 2. a hosting platform is needed where I'm not sure if it should be opensuse.org or opensuse-community.org as we could refer to more plugins for the latter probably. For 3. nothing is really available yet. The reason is that our package metadata is missing information we would need to detect mozilla plugins. For the current implementation the database is created manually but I consider this pretty much impossible for a production service. ---------- So actually to finish this feature (if it's seen to be useful, otherwise please tell me so I stop investing time into it) I would need some help - to get the Firefox UI translations in place for as much locales as possible (it's really not much to translate right now) - to find a hosting area (currently it's running on my personal server) (to be able to offer problematic plugins it could make sense to use opensuse-community.org?) (it's a python script running through mod_python) - to get ideas how to solve 3. - if 3. is hard to solve or takes time we can consider to fill the database manually to get started but that would need some help to collect the needed information So that's basically about that feature but if you got any feature requests for Firefox about its openSUSE integration please read on: As there is now an openSUSE specific addon we can add more distribution specific things to it. In theory a lot of stuff can be done with the extension to customize Firefox a bit more to fit openSUSE but there are two issues: 1. ideas what would be useful 2. people doing the implementation So if you got any ideas or have some experience in writing Firefox extensions (or want to learn it) please tell me! Thanks, Wolfgang -- 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] crap! npviewer.bin eating 58% of my CPU kde 4.2.96
by David C. Rankin 09 Jul '09

09 Jul '09

Listmates, WTF is wrong with npviewer.bin? I have kmail, konqueror and konsole open and top shows this adobe npviewer.bin running constantly and eating 1/2 my cpu. This never happened with 4.2.90 or 4.2.95. What broke in 4.2.96? Do I just need to trash this buggy npviewer and uninstall it some how? What gives? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- 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] List of valid licenses for packages?
by Ludwig Nussel 09 Jul '09

09 Jul '09

Hi, Today I got a bunch of new packages rejected for Factory because of an inexact license tag in the spec file ("GPL" instead of "GPLv2 or later"). How is a packager supposed to know? What are acceptable strings in the license tag? Even the example in the wiki¹ has 'GPL'. cu Ludwig [1] http://en.opensuse.org/SUSE_Build_Tutorial#KDE_Packages -- (o_ Ludwig Nussel //\ V_/_ http://www.suse.de/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) -- 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] new Firefox feature (call for help)
by Pavol Rusnak 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

Wolfgang Rosenauer wrote: > Currently that is not possible with our repos because there are two > things I think: we would need to add the metadata (probably using > defined Provides keywords would do) _and_ we would need a special repo > parser which could read from defined repos but both could be solved at > some point. > > So to sum up again. I'm quite undecided what the right thing is. Ah, I see. I didn't know about the ubuntu plugin. We should probably keep this plugins as similar as possible. Package flash-player already has Provides symbol for mimetype: $ rpm -q flash-player --provides netscape-plugins libflashplayer.so mimetype(application/x-shockwave-flash) flash-player = 10.0.22.87-0.1.1 But that's not true for java or moonlight packages. We can add also other Provide symbol, for example plugin({ec8030f7-c20a-464f-9b0e-13a3a9e97384},libflashplayer.so) If we go through the packages and and these two symbols to them, then we could build a database you need from the repository data. -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o Package Maintainer Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9, CR prusnak[at]suse.cz http://www.suse.cz -- 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] No "skip" feature in Yast2 SW Managment?
by David C. Rankin 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

Listmates, After updating to factory Yast2, I am surprised to find there is no "Skip" option to choose in the event of a failed package during install. Today, attempting an update, all "cairo" packages failed due to freetype errors. Once the package failed, the only options were to "ignore" (a no-no) "abort" (not what I wanted to do after protecting 5 packages out of a list of 43) or "cancel" (how this is different that abort escapes me). All I wanted to do was "skip" the failed package and continue installing the rest. Where has the "skip" option gone?? Bug or feature? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- 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] OpenOffice 2.4 - Howto reduce menu font size in KDE4
by David C. Rankin 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

On Tuesday 07 July 2009 05:15:53 pm Rodney Baker wrote: > On Wed, 8 Jul 2009 01:57:09 David C. Rankin wrote: > > Listmates, > > > > Due to an openoffice 3.1 crash, I had to uninstall ooo3.1 and reinstall > > ooo2.4 to get ooo to start. Now in 2.4 all of the menu fonts are 12 or 13 > > pt and huge to look at. My kde-control-center fonts settings are 9 pt. In > > kde3 I recall using a gtk app to change the size of the font appearance in > > openoffice apps. I can't find the app in the KDE4 menus. What is that app? > > > > Personal Settings (Configure Desktop ) -> Look and Feel -> Appearance -> GTK > Styles and Fonts > > > WTF? I don't have any GTK anything in kde control center: http://www.3111skyline.com/download/openSUSE_bugs/kde4/screenshots/noGTKset… I must be missing a package or kde from factory has a broken control center link. What package is needed to get this option?? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- 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] konsole rt-click over tabs context menu gone
by David C. Rankin 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

Listmates, Here is a copy of the bug filed earlier today. Is this a KDE only bug or is this also suse related? kde 4.2.95 on openSuSE. konsole right-click on tabs context menu has disappeared. I was trying to access the normal "detach session" (kde3) or "detach view" (kde4) option in konsole by right-clicking over the tab I wanted to detach. The context menu is gone. Nothing happens when I right-click over the tabs at the bottom of konsole. I know this was working in an earlier kde4 beta 2 snapshot (4.2.88 or 4.2.90 I can't recall), but it is definitely gone now on openSuSE 11.0. https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=199477 -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- 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] xulrunner...
by Oddball 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

Hi, Still impossible to use firefox due to: #### YaST2 conflicts list - generated 2009-06-28 16:41:33 #### niets levert mozilla-xulrunner191 = 1.9.1b99 nodig door MozillaFirefox-3.5b99-1.2.x86_64 (nothing supplies) (needed by) [ ] MozillaFirefox-3.5b99-1.2.x86_64 niet installeren niets levert mozilla-xulrunner191 = 1.9.1b99 nodig door MozillaFirefox-3.5b99-1.2.x86_64 (nothing supplies) (needed by) [ ] MozillaFirefox-translations-3.5b99-1.2.x86_64 niet installeren #### YaST2 conflicts list END ### and this message: oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1:~> firefox Could not find compatible GRE between version 1.9.1b4 and 1.9.1b4. oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1:~> in milestone 2.... -- Enjoy your time around, Oddball (M9.) (Now or never...) OS: Linux 2.6.30-8-default x86_64 Huidige gebruiker: oddball@AMD64x2-sfn1 Systeem: openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 2 (x86_64) KDE: 4.2.90 (KDE 4.2.90 (KDE 4.3 Beta2)) "release 1" -- 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] Re: updated of packages with usermod / groupmod calls 'hang'
by Dominique Leuenberger 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

Hi, ----- Original Message ----- >> Anybody seen something similiar? Some bug already hinting at this problem? (I >would file it against base >> system otherwise, as manually starting >> groupmod also does not work). >> > >Same here. I updated from 11.1 to factory a few days ago and saw the same. I >captured a "ps -axf" output during "zypper dup". The whole process hanged three >times: I was stracing it a little. The issue seems to come from nscd (name server caching daemon). Even on manual, when issuing useradd test this is going to hang. shutting down nscd (rcnscd stop) and then adding a user works fine. (note: the user actually IS added to /etc/passwd, even with nscd running). I'll check bugzilla for a similiar issue and if nothing found, I'll register one. 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] cairo Package errors?
by David C. Rankin 08 Jul '09

08 Jul '09

Listmates, One update that continues to appear is cairo and related packages (-doc, -debug, etc..). The install error is: Subprocess failed. Error: RPM failed: error: open of /var/cache/zypp/packages/subpixel failed: No such file or directory error: open of repository/i586/cairo-32bit-1.6.4-999.subpixel.1.x86_64.rpm failed: No such file or directory This is on an x86_64, why am I getting an error on an i586 package? Also, why the local /var/cache/zypp/packages/subpixel error? -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com -- 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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