July 2013 - openSUSE Factory - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-factory] Status: Distribution
by Stephan Kulow 02 Jul '13

02 Jul '13

Hi, We integrated perl 5.18 and gcc 4.8 is my next aim. To ease that I rebased openSUSE:Factory:Gcc48 to build a minimal installation medium that we can test. I setup openSUSE:Factory:Build to keep the bootstrap cycle self contained and openSUSE:Factory:Core to build a small product medium. My goal is to have both these projects full green all time and the rest of factory is up to be dropped if it fails. Basically: if you submit something to factory that is part of these 2 projects, it's your responsibility that :Build and :Core are green with it, the rest of the packages in factory are the responsibility of the maintainers of those to keep green. We'll see how far we can go with that rule, it would be good to have a working KDE, GNOME and libreoffice too in factory, but I have to start somewhere, so having a base system and an installer to go with it is my Core for now. Greetings, Stephan -- 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] Fcitx 4.2.8 hit in M17N (and 13.1)!
by Marguerite Su 01 Jul '13

01 Jul '13

Hi, listmates, I'm pleased to announce that our M17N team has successfully packaged and shipped fcitx 4.2.8 released earilier today, GMT -0400 NY Time. For early testers, you can add M17N repo and update. Or you can wait for 13.1 M3 (seems). NOTICE Western people can also use "keyboard" input methods in fcitx to speed your life up. It has m17n-lib map support, spell checking and even word prediction with the help of presage (A Cambridge western language model). You can check my previous (4.2.7) video for demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkTnbrLfrI4&hd=1 PROMOTION VIDEO http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E15G-ZvMCtc http://v.youku.com/v_show/id_XNTc3NDM0NjI0.html?firsttime=326 (Chinese only, because Youtube was blocked in this area) NEW FEATURES See https://www.csslayer.info/wordpress/fcitx-dev/fcitx-4-2-8/ for details. The highlights for non-Chinese people: Core * New dbus-based tray icons * Polished desktop notifications * Disable status bar by default, so make you more concentrate on your work. * Some built-in "quick phrases", eg: emoji. Cloudpinyin * It was a feature for Chinese to find the more accurate words. But yes, its public servers are provided by research/IME companies which upstream has no interest in. Then some users outside China reported a security bug about censorship and Communist China. This update will let you disable it by short-cuts Hangul * Fixed a blocker bug: Google Code #696 Libpinyin * Now you can download user-contributed dictionaries online from sogou.com (A Chinese IME company providing free-of-charge software and service) M17N * We update its backend m17n-lib/m17n-db/libotf/m17n-contrib to the latest upstream versions Japanese * Fedora 19 introduced a new JP IME named "libkkc", it's based on marisa language model. But it ships IBus frontend "ibus-kkc" only (We'll have it too in 13.1) * openSUSE is the first ditribution ships fcitx-kkc. Thanks to my push and upstream's will to listen & great hard work PACKAGER TODO * Check out if there're more out-dated dependencies and update'em. * Test on GNOME 3.9 and further versions (GNOME integrates IBus since 3.6, so all other IM frameworks need to find their own way to survive. We hope it "just works" but there may be bad luck everyday.) PS: Its core devs are all studying in the United States now, one in MIT for bachelor and one in Stonybrook for PHD. So eastern US LUGs/Conferences are welcome to ask them to give lightening talks about how input methods work in design and reality. And if you can, buy them beers (I gave them openSUSE Chinese T-Shirts aka the version I published on G+ for this release) Greetings Marguerite -- 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] packages for pam_yubico, ykval and ykksm server
by Timo Benk 01 Jul '13

01 Jul '13

Hi, i have packaged the yubico pam plugin, the php validation server and the php key storage module. there are still some minor issues like missing manual pages which will be fixed if i will submit request the packages to factory. however, i would first wait for any comments, maybe i have missed something and yubico support is already on the way into factory. obs project: home:t_benk:yubi from the yubico homepage (http://www.yubico.com): Yubico's mission is to make strong two-factor authentication easy and affordbale for everyone. The company’s flagship product, the YubiKey, uniquely combines driver-less USB and NFC hardware with open source software. comments, feedback and patches are very welcome. greetings, -timo -- Timo Benk Linux / Unix Consultant & Trainer Tel.: +49-178-8066638 Mail: benk(a)b1-systems.de B1 Systems GmbH Osterfeldstraße 7 / 85088 Vohburg / http://www.b1-systems.de GF: Ralph Dehner / Unternehmenssitz: Vohburg / AG: Ingolstadt,HRB 3537 -- 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] Why systemd over upstart?
by Linda Walsh 01 Jul '13

01 Jul '13

Was just looking for performance articles on boot and ran into upstart -- it seems somewhat similar to systemd in that it is a replacement -- but it's design was for performance and reliability -- things that systemd doesn't seem to emphasize. Also its well documented (http://upstart.ubuntu.com/cookbook/ also in the form of a 183p PDF). and has been in use for a few years -- so it's not alpha quality like systemd. Even fedora has used it -- though I guess they are switching to systemd? I just couldn't help but notice the large amound of examples and docs -- as well as a service scripting language -- something systemd fails hard on. So why go for an unfinished alpha over upstart? Advantages? -- 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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