August 2012 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] Dropping packages courier-* and *fam*
by Freek de Kruijf 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

Already in openSUSE 12.1 the fam service does not work. This remains the same in 12.2. The family of courier packages depends on this service. The alternative is to use dovecot, which does not need the fam service. So I propose to drop the family of courier and fam packages from the openSUSE distribution. -- fr.gr. Freek de Kruijf -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Force disable LVDS Downclock on intel graphics?
by Trent Hawkins 02 Aug '12

02 Aug '12

Hello, I am running Tumbleweed off openSUSE 12.1. In the past i used "i915.lvds_downclock=1" as a power saving measure on my laptop, but realised that it caused annoying screen flickering and made it impossible to use an external display. So i disabled this option and have had a functioning laptop since then. However since i ran zypper dup last week and updated the kernel to 3.4.6-34, this display instability has returned. When i plug in an external monitor via HDMI (or VGA) i can sometimes use it for a couple of minutes before the graphics card starts switching the output between displays and flickering, rendering it impossible to use. It is often worse if i only use the external display (i.e. disable laptop display). I suspect this is due to some kernel change which has allowed the lvds downclock power saving measure to work (i.e. without being forced). Can anyone confirm this? Also can i force disabling this option by entering in "i915.lvds_downclock=0" at the kernel line? Thanks in advance, Trent -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Proof was asked for -- and is given. open-suse build process needs 'improvement'
by Linda Walsh 01 Aug '12

01 Aug '12

The maintainer of suse's perl port, I take it, just made it back from a break, and responded to my bug filed against 12.1 not being able to build perl 5.14.2 (as distributed by rpm in binary and source rpms from opensuse.org). At first it got closed out as invalid, because they didn't try it. Then they tried it. Comments in the bug which was reopened and resolved as 'fixed', now... ------ Note that I needed to backport one of the upstream fixes to make perl-5.14.2 build, check out perl-cbuilder-ccflags.diff. It's already included in perl-5.16.0, though. We also patch hints/linux.pl a bit (it seems to be tailored for Debian). But if you do everything our specfile does, you shouldn't have any problems to rebuild perl. If you want to compiler 5.16.0 for 12.1, you should check out the patches and specfile from opensuse 12.2. --- Of course my fault was using the the specfile from 12.1 to build the perl5.14.2 that is the current perl with 12.1. You may not like the idea of retrying your build with a complete, clean suse development installation -- but that you don't even retry the build with the currently released tools seems like an even larger gap in standard QA practices -- and I worked both with and in QA for years in my career, so I know of what I speak -- and I know the bar for what is acceptable quality has constantly been getting pushed lower and lower. I'm saying the bar is too low if you can't even regen the product with the released product. The case with samba is that you can't build samba with all of it's options installed, nor can you build it if you want to build the smb using tools like gvfs.smb or fuser.smb -- they both require packages that, if installed, will keep the smb package from building. Some may think that's the new gold standard, but that's a hack from my perspective. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] new package proposal: istgt
by David Disseldorp 01 Aug '12

01 Aug '12

istgt is a user-space iSCSI target, providing SCSI command descriptor block handling for file and device backed logical units. A list of features and tested initiators can be found on the project website at: http://www.peach.ne.jp/archives/istgt/ It is currently maintained upstream for FreeBSD by Daisuke Aoyama and the FreeNAS team. Additionally, it is carried by Debian and NetBSD. A Factory devel project has been created at devel:openSUSE:Factory. I'd like to submit to openSUSE:Factory in the coming days, providing there are no objections from the community. Cheers, David -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-factory] Installing openSUSE 12.2 RC on Zotac ZBOX computer not working?
by C 01 Aug '12

01 Aug '12

This is a bit of an odd one. I've tried to install both openSUSE 12.1 and 12.2 on my Zotac ZBOX (Atom D510 1.6GHz, with 3GB RAM, Intel GMA 3150 video). The ISO starts up and I see the initial loading screen. If I follow the console output it gets right up to launching the YaST installer, and the screen blanks with a cursor flashing in the top left. It just stays here... the YaST Installer never starts. What/where can I look to see what's going on here? The console output during the startup isn't too helpful. No errors show up there (at least not that I can see). i can't even see anything helpful or useful to put into a bug report (if that's even what is needed here). Generally this computer is very Linux compatible... and other distros will install just fine... it's only openSUSE that fails to make a go of it. C -- openSUSE 12.1 x86_64, KDE 4.8.4 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner(a)opensuse.org

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