March 2010

[opensuse-factory] Status: Distribution
by Stephan Kulow 02 Mar '10

02 Mar '10

Hi, The roadmap says we will release M3 this week. With 194 packages not building (many of them caused by more strict implementation of FORTIFY_SOURCE it seems) I'm not really sure we can make it. Then again I prefer releasing a buggy M3 that allows testing than not releasing any milestone and not having any testing. But I won't release anything that doesn't allow testing - so we'll see. And as usual I welcome any help in getting the build failures / bug count down. You can see the details … [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] /usr/bin/hostid?
by Ludwig Nussel 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

Hi, Does anyone know any users of /usr/bin/hostid? We have a custom one in the util-linux package but upstream coreutils contains a different implementation. Ours prints '0xnumber' while upstream only prints 'number'. Also ours allows to set the hostid and the man page refers to /etc/hostid. However, hostid doesn't actually read that file and there also doesn't seem to be an init script for it either. So I wonder whether we could safely switch to the coreutils version. cu Ludwig -- (o_ … [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] /usr/sbin/freeramdisk?
by Ludwig Nussel 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

Hi, Has anyone ever seen any use of /usr/sbin/freeramdisk? AFAICS it's equivalent to "blockdev --flushbufs /dev/ram" so I guess we can just drop it. cu Ludwig -- (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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[opensuse-factory] LXDE: switch from pcmanfm-legacy (0.5.2) to pcmanfm2
by Andrea Florio 01 Mar '10

01 Mar '10

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Today i'm finally completing the move from pcmanfm-legacy to pcmanfm2 as announced time ago to mailing list [1] please notice that pcmanfm2 has been renamed to pcmanfm and it will CONFLICTS with pcmanfm-legacy. Is not more possible than, to have both installed but you can keep old pcmanfm if you want even if it's not suggested. please test new pcmanfm2 an report about any issue you find Best regards Andrea [1] http://lists.opensuse.org/… [View More]

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