March 2011

[opensuse-factory] KDE menus and gitorious
by Cristian Morales Vega 06 Nov '12

06 Nov '12

I created a merge request for desktop-data three weeks ago. It's just a minor patch that doesn't really fix anything but a warning from kbuildsycoca4. I'm not sure about how Gitorious works, maintainers are supposed to notice the "1" in the merge requests section or they receive an email notifying it? And since I'm on it. Since I updated my 11.3 system to KDE to 4.5 the "inline" part of the menu is not honored... Expected behavior? Known problem? -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+… [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] Kernel for 11.4?
by Jeff Mahoney 22 Sep '11

22 Sep '11

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all - Since technically we're in feature freeze for 11.4, I thought I'd put this out for discussion. Factory is currently using 2.6.36 which was released 3 weeks ago. Upstream versions tend to take about 10-11 weeks, on average, to release. The scheduled release for the first openSUSE RC is Jan 20. The scheduled release for the first RC is Jan 20. The typical development time for a kernel release, on average, is about 10-11 weeks. That puts … [View More]the release of 2.6.37 around Dec 29 to Jan 12. That sounds like kind of a tight window, but the reality is that the differences in the later kernel RCs tend to be small and fix bugs. The "real" development happens in -rc1, which was released about two weeks ago. Later -rcs serve to stabilize the development that went into -rc1. So, the the feature freeze aspect of it will be a one-shot, when I update to -rc1. (Actually, I hardly ever update to -rc1 and instead use - -rc2 which tends to be more stable). I've already done the merge work for 2.6.37-rc1 since the master kernel always tracks the latest upstream. Xen is the lone exception, as it usually is, but Jan Beulich has been great about getting that completed shortly after I do the update. This time might be a little more difficult because much of the Xen code has been merged into the mainline kernel so there's some sorting out to be done. As far as testing goes, we're still early enough that we won't lose a lot of effort. I'd update Factory to 2.6.37-rc2 as soon as it is released upstream, which should be this week. Our usual corps of dedicated testers can dig in quickly. In my experience, though, the number of testers drastically increases around the RC1 release. I wish it weren't so, but it is. So revving the kernel now isn't likely to toss out a lot of testing. The biggest "feature" I'm going for is not having to backport fixes from 2.6.37. The BKL removal patches and the VFS scalability patches are going to improve performance on multicore systems. The removal of I/O barriers should also be pretty noticeable but I haven't had time to verify that yet. So, opinions? - -Jeff Features that are going into 2.6.37: - - The inode portion of the VFS scalability patches - - More BKL removal, including parts of the core kernel - - Block I/O can be throttled via cgroups - - Simple pNFS support - - In-kernel PPTP (tunneling) acceleration - - "Lazy" inode table creation for ext4 to allow faster fs creation - - Batched discard support, which allows the file system to advise the block layer to use the TRIM command. This allows online TRIMs, but is only implemented in ext4 so far. - - Xen dom0 support (mostly) - - The usual round of bug fixes. - - fanotify - - Block barriers have been removed[1] Drivers: - - Systems and processors: - Flexibility Connect boards - Telechips TCC ARM926-based systems - Telechips TCC8000-SDK development kits - Vista Silicon Visstrim_m10 i.MX27-based boards - LaCie d2 Network v2 NAS boards - Qualcomm MSM8x60 RUMI3 emulators - Qualcomm MSM8x60 SURF eval boards - Eukrea CPUIMX51SD modules - Freescale MPC8308 P1M boards - APM APM821xx evaluation boards - Ito SH-2007 reference boards - IBM "SMI-free" realtime BIOS's - MityDSP-L138 and MityDSP-1808 systems - OMAP3 Logic 3530 LV SOM boards - OMAP3 IGEP modules - taskit Stamp9G20 CPU modules - aESOP Samsung S5PV210-based Torbreck boards - - Block: - Chelsio T4 iSCSI offload engines - Cypress Astoria USB SD host controllers - Marvell PXA168/PXA910/MMP2 SD host controllers - ST Microelectronics Flexible Static Memory Controllers - - Input: - Roccat Pyra gaming mice - UC-Logic WP4030U, WP5540U and WP8060U tablets - several varieties of Waltop tablets - OMAP4 keyboard controllers - NXP Semiconductor LPC32XX touchscreen controllers - Hanwang Art Master III tablets - ST-Ericsson Nomadik SKE keyboards - ROHM BU21013 touch panel controllers - TI TNETV107X touchscreens - - Miscellaneous: - Freescale eSPI controllers - Topcliff platform controllher hub devices - OMAP AES crypto accelerators - NXP PCA9541 I2C master selectors - Intel Clarksboro memory controller hubs - OMAP 2-4 onboard serial ports - GPIO-controlled fans - Linear Technology LTC4261 Negative Voltage Hot Swap Controller I2C interfaces - TI BQ20Z75 gas gauge ICs - OMAP TWL4030 BCI chargers - ROHM ROHM BH1770GLC and OSRAM SFH7770 combined ALS and proximity sensors - Avago APDS990X combined ALS and proximity sensors - Intersil ISL29020 ambient light sensors - Medfield Avago APDS9802 ALS sensor modules - Basic, memory-mapped GPIO controllers - Intel Topcliff GPIO controllers - Intel Moorestown/Medfield i2c controllers - IDT CPS Gen.2 SRIO RapidIO switches - Freescale i.MX DMA engines - ARM PrimeCell PL080 or PL081 DMA engines - Cypress West Bridge Astoria controllers - USB ENE card readers - Asahi Kasei AK8975 3-axis magnetometers - OLPC XO display controller devices - Analog Devices AD799x analog/digital converters - Winbond/Nuvoton W83795G/ADG hardware monitoring chips - Flarion OFDM usb and pcmcia modems - Maxim MAX8952 and MAX8998 Power Management ICs - National Semiconductors LP3972 PMIC regulators - Broadcom BCM63xx hardware watchdogs - - Network: - Brocade 1010/1020 10Gb Ethernet cards - Conexant CX82310 USB ethernet ports - Atheros AR9170 "otus" 802.11n USB devices - Topcliff PCH Gigabit Ethernet controllers - Intel Topcliff platform controller hub CAN interfaces - Technologic Systems TS-CAN1 PC104 peripheral boards - SBE wanPMC-2T3E3 interfaces - RealTek RTL8712U (RTL8192SU) Wireless LAN NICs (replaces older rtl8712 driver) - Atheros AR6003 wireless interface controllers - Beeceem USB Wimax adapters - Broadcom bcm43xx wireless chipsets - - Sound: - Marvell 88pm860x codecs - TI WL1273 FM radio codecs - HP iPAQ RX1950 audio devices - Native Instruments Traktor Kontrol S4 audio devices - Aztech Sound Galaxy AZT1605 and AZT2316 ISA sound cards - Wolfson Micro WM8985 and WM8962 codecs - Wolfson Micro WM8804 S/PDIF transceivers - Samsung S/PDIF controllers - Cirrus Logic EP93xx AC97 controllers - Intel MID SST DSP devices - - USB: Intel Langwell USB OTG transceivers - YUREX "leg shake" sensors - USB-attached SCSI devices - - Video4Linux2: remotes using the RC-5 (streamzap) protocol - Konica chipset-based cameras - Sharp IX2505V silicon tuners - LME2510 DM04/QQBOX USB DVB-S boxes - Samsung s5h1432 demodulators - Several new Conexant cx23417-based boards - Nuvoton w836x7hg consumer infrared transceivers - OmniVision OV6650 sensors - OMAP1 camera interfaces - Siliconfile SR030PC30 VGA cameras - Sony imx074 sensors - VIA integrated chipset camera controllers - -Jeff [1] This is because they were a very big hammer that had a reputation for killing performance. They're necessary for safely using journals on devices with write caching enabled, but were implemented by flushing the entire I/O queue to physical media -- not just "to disk" which includes the disk's write cache. The new implementation will still use the flush-to-media feature but will not stall the i/o queue. - -- Jeff Mahoney SUSE Labs -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkzhW0YACgkQLPWxlyuTD7JgBACbBfR+uJwfKKnEcBZIg/KeIj/S hikAnRiL9nG50QoKZkrn1AsmGljnGvYn =T/Hp -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help(a)opensuse.org [View Less]

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[opensuse-factory] IPV6 privacy in openSUSE
by Andreas Jaeger 13 Sep '11

13 Sep '11

I wonder whether our IPv6 settings are the right ones after reading the following article (sorry, German only): http://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/IPv6-Smartphones-gefaehrden-Privatsp… which references: http://www.heise.de/netze/hotline/IPv6-anonym-1100727.html We set use_tempaddr to 0 by default (disabling privacy extensions) and set it to 1 if enabled. The article advises to use 2. Background: By default (value 0) my IPv6 address will be derived from my hardware (macaddr) and therefore … [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] Cronie as default cron in Factory
by Michal Seben 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

Hi all! Next week I will move cronie[1] package to Factory, so it will replace old cron. If someone is against this step, please just write what's wrong. As I announced earlier, you could find Cronie in Base:System repo [2] there is also prepared wiki about known changes after switch to cronie [3] [1]https://fedorahosted.org/cronie/ [2]https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=cronie&project=Base%3ASys… [3]http://en.opensuse.org/Cron_replace#Differences_between_old_openSUSE.… [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] mirrorbrain
by Felix Miata 05 Apr '11

05 Apr '11

http://en.opensuse.org/MirrorBrain Am I the only one in the US to find this to be more bad than good? Just about any time I use download.opensuse.org repos instead of a specific mirror for a lengthy dup, I find either slower than average download speeds, and/or find downloading halted by errors that do not self correct via retries. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #… [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] Can you add a flash-player that is 64-bit
by Roman Bysh 02 Apr '11

02 Apr '11

Hello all, Is there a chance that some one can add a flash-player that is 64-bit instead of 32-bit. I'm running 64-bit. However, every time I ask Yast to install a flash-player, I keep getting the i586 flash-player. I downloaded the DVD_X86_64. Cheers! Roman -- 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] Support for KDE3 removed from LibreOffice?
by Petr Mladek 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

todd rme píše v Pá 11. 03. 2011 v 16:29 -0500: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 4:13 PM, Ilya Chernykh <neptunia(a)mail.ru> wrote: > > On Friday 11 March 2011 23:01:13 Ilya Chernykh wrote: > > > >> I have just installed 11.4 and Libre Office 3.3.1 uses GTK front-end under > >> 11.4. With OpenOffice.org 3.2.1 under 11.3 all was OK. > > > > ...And I just installed OOo 3.3.0 from Oracle and it works excellent with > > KDE3. So what's the purpose of … [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] Libreoffice 3.3.2 and KDE 4.6.1 for Tumbleweed
by Tim 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

Hi all, are there plans to ship Libreoffice 3.3.2 and KDE 4.6.1 with Tumbleweed or should other community repositories be preferred in this matter? Tim -- 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] Chromium as the default browser in the next release?
by Manu Gupta 31 Mar '11

31 Mar '11

Hi all, Can we have chromium as the default browser in the next release? My reasons being 1. Faster 2. Better support for HTML5 and CSS3 3. Excellent browser rendering capabilities 4. Appstore is as good as firefox's and getting better The only issue I have is it creates multiple process Just a suggestion -- Regards Manu Gupta -- 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-project] openSUSE Release versioning - Poll on last three options
by Stephan Kulow 30 Mar '11

30 Mar '11

Am Mittwoch, 30. März 2011 schrieb Helen South: > On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 1:30 AM, Greg Freemyer <greg.freemyer(a)gmail.com> wrote: > > I was hoping the "old-school" vote last time would allow for a vote > > this time of when to rollover: > > > > a) 12.0, 12.1, 13.0, 13.1, etc. > > b) 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 13.0, 13.1, 13.2, 14.0 etc. > > c) 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 13.0, 13.1, 13.2, 13.3, 14.0 etc. > > c) 12.0, 12.1, 12.2, 12.3, 12.4, 13.0, 13.1, … [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] Re: [opensuse-buildservice] How to build i686 only package in BuildService?
by Cristian Rodríguez 30 Mar '11

30 Mar '11

El 29/03/11 10:48, Michal Vyskocil escribió: > So how can be only i686 rpm packages produced in a buildservice? I also think we should switch the complete distro to i686 as fedora [1] and Ubuntu [2] already did. Note that Im not claiming performance gains or magic improvements ;) [1] http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F12X86Support [2] http://www.thisweekinlinux.com/2010/06/ubuntu-10-10-maverick-meerkat-drops-… -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org … [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] Suggest pushing the python-4suite-xml package to Factory
by Marco Poletti 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

I have added the python-4suite-xml package to the devel:languages:python repository, and now I suggest pushing it to Factory. This package is needed by `harpia', that is a GUI to help designing image analysis pipelines. I have packaged `harpia' in my home repository, and I will push it when python-4suite-xml is accepted. Marco -- 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] kernel 2.6.37.2
by Stephan Kulow 29 Mar '11

29 Mar '11

Hi, I would like to get some feedback on updating from 2.6.37.1 to 2.6.37.2 at this point, so please give http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Kernel:/openSUSE-11.4/openSUSE_Fa… a test on your hardware. Greetings, Stephan -- 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 reporting to packman
by jdd 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

I see no word about reporting bugs tp packman team is the reporting bugs pages on the wiki: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Bug_reporting_FAQ of course, I can write to them on packman(a)links2linux.de, but shouldit not be better to at least have a paragraph on the wiki about this? (I have a note on ProjectX, got through packman) thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xgxog7_clip-l-ombre-et-la-lumiere-3-bad-pi… http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGgv_ZFtV14 -- … [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] Build Target Tumbleweed
by Sascha Manns 28 Mar '11

28 Mar '11

Hello Mates, i've just checked the possible Build Targets, but i've not found Tumbleweed. Can i build against Tumbleweed? cu Sascha -- Sincerely Yours Sascha Manns open-slx Community & Support Agent openSUSE Membership Comitee openSUSE Marketing Team Web: http://saigkill.homelinux.net German Community Portal: http://community.open-slx.de -- 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] 11.5 vs. 12.0
by Kim Leyendecker 27 Mar '11

27 Mar '11

03/07/2011 jdd wrote: Now that 11.4 is done and nearly out, we can think of the future. Okay, let us think of the future..... After the whole discussion about the 11.4 vs 12.0 topic in the end of the development cycle for the done release, I think it´s better to talk on it now and make clear which goals we want achieve with the successor of 11.4. I don´t want to call it 11.5 or 12.0, just the "successor" till the version number is clear. For this, I have two ideas here: Eight months … [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] tumbleweed wants to downgrade 8 packages?
by Greg Freemyer 27 Mar '11

27 Mar '11

All, I just initiated a "zypper dup --from Tumbleweed" and I get 8 packages it wants to download. == The following packages are going to be downgraded: libldb0 libtalloc2 libtalloc2-32bit libtdb1 libtdb1-32bit libtevent0 virtualbox virtualbox-qt == looking at virtualbox as a specific example, it looks like the vanilla 11.4 version is indeed newer. > sudo zypper se -s virtualbox | grep " virtualbox " i | virtualbox | package | 4.0.4-1.2.3 | … [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] work for the future: why do you still use Windows
by jdd 27 Mar '11

27 Mar '11

Now that 11.4 is done and nearly out, we can think of the future. in 2011, most of us do not use anymore Windows or nearly. Still when we advertise openSUSE we need to be cautious. switching completely to openSUSE is nearly impossible, because there are still some locks. We should try to identify them and make the necessary effort to solve them. The installation problem is the most well known and we already work each day to solve it and make default install a snap on nearly any computer. The … [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] Trouble starting yast2 from terminal
by Robert Schweikert 26 Mar '11

26 Mar '11

Hi, After upgrading to 11.4 via "zypper dup" I am unable to start "yast2" from a terminal window. I am getting the following error: ** GLib-GIO:ERROR:gdbusconnection.c:2279:initable_init: assertion failed: (connection->initialization_error == NULL) I am logged into a GNOME session as regular user, then start a terminal session, su, and then run "yast2" I can produce the problem on 2 machines. This is a big annoyance on one machine since I cannot start YaST from the slab menu as it does … [View More]

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Fwd: [opensuse-factory] New devel-project: Pyrit
by Lukas Lueg 25 Mar '11

25 Mar '11

Hi Per, I do want to underline that there are no pre-built binaries that are distributed by "the project" itself (e.g. like VirtualBox does). You will always be able to get the full source-code and share derived work from that. If you want, you can even charge for that (as the GPL permits). However this is not and will never be something "the project" does... I'm perfectly fine with all the other Linux distributions shipping binaries for Pyrit (that you can get the source-code for). I'm not … [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] New devel-project: Pyrit
by Lukas Lueg 25 Mar '11

25 Mar '11

Hi, I'm the author of Pyrit (http://code.google.com/p/pyrit) which I'd like to see a package for in the openSUSE factory repository. As I am the main author and maintainer of the upstream project, I can't take care of maintaining a package in every distribution myself; therefor I'm looking for a maintainer. Pyrit integrates technologies like CUDA, Padlock, OpenCL, CAL and AES-NI with Python and shows some very heavy iron works using this language, easily pushing several hundret gigabytes of … [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] Will Firefox4 be updated in OSS/ Updates repostory
by Manu Gupta 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

Hi All Firefox 4 will be released today and will an update be provide for everyone who do not wish to switch repositories? -- Regards Manu Gupta -- 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] download stat
by Peter Czanik 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

Hello, Is there any download statistics available for the build service? I'd be very interested to know, how many people downloaded (if at all) from my home project at https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home%3Aczanik%3Asyslog-ng33 and which openSUSE version did they use. Bye, CzP -- 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] Status: distribution
by Stephan Kulow 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

Hi, We finally managed to make the legal review steps transparent. So if you submit a package now to factory, a "legal-auto" group is asked to review it - this is done by a script of Jürgen, which checks if the package was reviewed before. If not, a "legal-team" group is asked to review. So the requests no longer appear to be ignored. In future we plan to do the same with some check-auto and check-manual to review build status and basic checks as soon as possible. Greetings, Stephan P.S. … [View More]

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[opensuse-factory] Two new packages looking for devel projects
by Atri Bhattacharya 23 Mar '11

23 Mar '11

Hi! I have started looking at providing packages for several of the more useful packages and libraries for numeric computation [1]. This would hopefully fill a slight void that openSUSE still has with many of the libraries, packages and applications for advanced scientific computation not easily available/installable (this is strictly my opinion ;) ). The eventual goal is to also push some of these packages to Factory. To this end, I have packaged two c++ based libraries for fast numeric … [View More]

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