September 2011 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] Fwd: ANNOUNCE: I call it a beta
by Stephan Kulow 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

FYI, I just sent this to the project list - in case you're not reading it regularly. Please post your answers/ideas there. Greetings, Stephan ---------- Weitergeleitete Nachricht ---------- Betreff: ANNOUNCE: I call it a beta Datum: Donnerstag, 29. September 2011, 22:22:53 Von: Stephan Kulow <coolo(a)suse.de> An: opensuse-project(a)opensuse.org Hi, We had a short go/no-go meeting on #opensuse-factory and decided that the fuser problem may be the cause of all evil and now that it's gone, we can go forward and release beta1. We even managed to get most of the artwork updated in the days slippage. If you come around it, I will upload build315 to the mirrors tomorrow morning. When to announce publically I leave to the marketing guys, I'll be mainly off the internet till tuesday as monday is public holiday for me and I'm told publishing news on friday is bad - but I'll make sure the ISOs are available for interested testers. I hope that's ok for the team. Now the interesting question is what about the RC1. We didn't really loose time in development as we checked in almost everything that came in during the time we waited for the fixes - this includes e.g. kernel 3.1rc7. But we can't hold the schedule as it is - the original deadline for RC1 checkins is october 7th - that's around 4 days after public announcment of the beta and even before the pizza party. With the new factory work flow we have some more flexibility in terms of checkin deadlines, so let's make use of that. My proposal would be: Move RC1 from October 13th to 21st for release date - checkin deadline would be 18th. Move RC2 from October 27th to November 3th - checkin deadline would be October 28th (November 1st and the monday in front are blackout in Nuremberg and we rely too much on Nuremberg to move the date where it's perfect ;( ) Move Final release from November 11th (who set that date anyway? :) to November 16th. GM would be on 11th. Note, that I don't want to move the final date too much and if we all agree to some discipline, RC2 will already be perfect and we only apply some polishing up to GM. I know that shuffles our usual weekdays for release a bit and I'm pretty sure I made some mistakes in my proposal, so please feel free to give ideas of yours. 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] No progress
by Ilya Chernykh 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

Some of my requests for Factory are waiting for a week now. I wonder what happened? -- 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] kdm does not start in factory in VirtualBox
by Freek de Kruijf 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

After changing the oss and non-oss repository of my openSUSE 12.1 M5 system to the factory ones, running "zypper up", and a reboot, kdm does not start anymore (there are no other repositories activated). Or rather it starts but it produces the error messages "X server died during startup" and "X server for display :0 cannot be started, session disabled". Any workaround? nomodeset does not change anything, nor does SystemV or systemd. -- fr.gr. Freek de Kruijf -- 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] [NEW] conky, tolua++
by Pascal Bleser 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

Just submitted * 85410: conky from server:monitoring * 85411: tolua++ from devel:languages:lua Note that tolua++ is only needed at build time, it's kind of a swig for lua bindings, and used by conky for the imlib2 and cairo backends. It is not required at runtime at all. Conky is a lightweight resource monitor that sits on the root of an X window. It monitors stuff such as remote servers, temperature, disk capacity, mailboxes, etc etc... It is very widely used on all distributions. (Kinda surprising it wasn't in factory) Tolua++ is a development tool that generates glorified Lua bindings for C and C++ libraries. Conky is stated to be licensed under the GPL on the project website, but it uses some bits from other projects and is hence a mix of GPL v3+, BSD (revised) and MIT. Tolua++ is licensed under the MIT license. Conky is actively developed and has releases on a regular basis, although not too frequent (latest is 1.8.1 and from 2010-10-05). Tolua++ seems barely maintained and only had few releases (it is a fork of another project though, "tolua"), last release being in Feb 2009: http://www.codenix.com/~tolua/ Not quite critical though, as it only generates code. Conky URL: http://conky.sourceforge.net/ Tolua++ URL: http://www.codenix.com/~tolua/ cheers -- -o) Pascal Bleser /\\ http://opensuse.org -- we haz green _\_v http://fosdem.org -- we haz conf

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[opensuse-factory] yast partitioner - smart check with 3ware controller
by Per Jessen 29 Sep '11

29 Sep '11

I'm not sure if the SMART test is meant to be fully working, but it certainly doesn't work with 3ware controllers. Let me know if anyone would like me to open a bugreport. (I'm not overly keen on this functionality myself, but others might find it very useful). -- Per Jessen, Zürich (17.3°C) -- 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] Beta still not ready ;(
by Stephan Kulow 28 Sep '11

28 Sep '11

Hi, We can't release the beta as is, there are still some problems left that we can't release with. Xorg crashing during installation is the worst I guess. 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] systemd description
by jdd 28 Sep '11

28 Sep '11

Hello :-) I know we are all busy debugging factory. But we have also to take care of our users, the ones that are to use it. Searching infos about systemd for the release notes, I found only this page on the wiki: http://en.opensuse.org/Systemd (the other one is even more technical). We need badly some page aimed to the simple user (here any administrator, even with few knowledge), let alone with 10 lines description and usefull links links. Fedora have a beginning (http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/systemd - not that good) What we need is a HOWTO, showing to somebody that used system V inits before how he can do now. I can't write this wiki page for lack of knowledge, but if you give me links or hints, I can try thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://pizzanetti.fr -- 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] installing over ssh+X - did anything change to hit performance?
by Per Jessen 28 Sep '11

28 Sep '11

I'm installing Factory over ssh+X on my local 100Mbit ethernet - it is slow at times, but seems to have become almost unbearably slow with the current Factory. Did anything change in this area? -- Per Jessen, Zürich (17.8°C) -- 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] The package is disabled or does not build against factory. Please fix and resubmit
by Ilya Chernykh 28 Sep '11

28 Sep '11

Hi! I am trying to submit koffice-i18n->kde3-koffice-i18n to Factory, but already twice I received the following: ==== The package is disabled or does not build against factory. Please fix and resubmit ==== As you can see, it builds well for Factory. What's the problem? https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=koffice-i18n&project=KDE%3A… -- 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] how to use system V in place of systemd?
by jdd 28 Sep '11

28 Sep '11

Hello, Sometime ago, when systemd whas not default, we had to add a option on the kernel line to use systemd. Now it's default. How can we then boot *without* systemd (else than uninstalling it), let alone to test the other way :-) thanks jdd -- http://www.dodin.net http://pizzanetti.fr -- 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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