openSUSE Factory March 2023

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openSUSE:Factory - Build fail notification
by DimStar / Dominique Leuenberger 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

Dear Package maintainers and hackers. Below package(s) in openSUSE:Factory have had problems for at least 4 weeks. We tried to send out notifications to the configured bugowner/maintainers of the package(s), but so far no fix has been submitted. This probably means that the maintainer/bugowner did not yet find the time to look into the matter and he/she would certainly appreciate help to get this sorted. - msr-safe: Uninstallable: nothing provides kernel-uname-r = 6.1.12-1-default needed by msr-safe-kmp-default-1.4.0_k6.1.12_1.i586 - python-tifffile: Unresolvable Unless somebody is stepping up and submitting fixes, the listed package(s) are going to be removed from openSUSE:Factory. Kind regards, DimStar / Dominique Leuenberger <dimstar(a)opensuse.org>

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So Leap is transitioning to a 16 variation?
by Fritz Hudnut 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

> > > > It is still possible to make something very much like Leap 15 from the > ALP sources if there is enough community interest in helping to support > packages. It in many cases may even be migratable from Leap 15, A couple > of us worked on a proof of concept during SUSE's last hackweek look > forward to a talk on it at this years conference. > > -- > Simon Lees (Simotek) http://simotek.net @Dominique Thanks for the detailed response on the question. @Simon Thanks also for your response, it seems like the "something very much like Leap 15" is what a number of posters here, and myself, would be interested in . . . i.e, the logical extension of the current Leap concept/technology. I'm running both TW and Leap 15.5 . . . and somewhere "in between" would be the "sweet spot" for me, the end user on aging hardware. I also run Debian Bookworm and Sid . . . seems like of late Sid is "more stable" than TW, but let's say they are roughly "equivalent" . . . Debian has "unstable," "testing" and "stable" . . . "testing" is the famed "middle way" . . . having newer packages, but which have first have run through the crucible of "unstability" . . . . That's where the "gently rolling" concept of future iterations of Leap would come in, i.e., not a total rewrite of the system, for each new day (or whatever it is) vs . . . rolling in new packages to a generally "stable" base, that doesn't run into massive package upgrades every few months, etc. On the new idea of Leap 16 using "containers" . . . have yet to mess with that concept in linux. It sounds like what Apple did with the last of the OSX variations, where they went to apfs formating and it was possible to set up . . . ??? semi-fluid "containers" that were not "solid" like a "partition" . . . but would be similar, place to install a distro?? Apfs formatting seemed to just mess up the system . . . . So, the point of containers is that they are "easier" to make and/or erase?? Or, this is something to do with SSD technology, where "boundaries" like partitions have less meaning, and all of the data is actually "shared" by the entire disk, so containers just gently sketch in the general area where the data will be stored, but it isn't just there, it's everywhere??

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New Tumbleweed snapshot 20230330 released!
by Dominique Leuenberger 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

Please note that this mail was generated by a script. The described changes are computed based on the x86_64 DVD. The full online repo contains too many changes to be listed here. Please check the known defects of this snapshot before upgrading: https://openqa.opensuse.org/tests/overview?distri=opensuse&groupid=1&versio… Please do not reply to this email to report issues, rather file a bug on bugzilla.opensuse.org. For more information on filing bugs please see https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Submitting_bug_reports Packages changed: drkonqi5 glslang (12.0.0 -> 12.1.0) hplip libguestfs libopenmpt (0.6.8 -> 0.6.9) okular patterns-media shaderc (2022.4 -> 2023.2) xorg-x11-server yast2 (4.6.1 -> 4.6.2) yast2-country (4.6.0 -> 4.6.1) === Details === ==== drkonqi5 ==== Subpackages: drkonqi5-lang - Replace '%service_del_postun -n' with '%service_del_postun_without_restart' ==== glslang ==== Version update (12.0.0 -> 12.1.0) - Update to release 12.1.0: * Reject non-float inputs/outputs for version less than 120 * Fix invalid BufferBlock decoration for SPIR-V 1.3 and above * Add HLSL relaxed-precision float/int matrix expansions * Block decorate Vulkan structs with RuntimeArrays * Support InterlockedAdd on float types - Delete 0001-build-set-SOVERSION-on-all-libraries.patch: fixed upstream - Split part of glslang-devel to glslang-nonstd-devel. ==== hplip ==== Subpackages: hplip-hpijs hplip-sane hplip-udev-rules - Add patch to fix hplip applying printf string format parsing to printer attributes returned from CUPS (such as "dnssd://foo%20series._ipp._tcp.local/?uuid=...") which results in a segfault (boo#1209866, lp#2013185): * fix-printer-attributes-parsing.patch ==== libguestfs ==== Subpackages: libguestfs-xfs libguestfs0 - Enable LTO as it works fine now (use FAT lto objects for static libs). ==== libopenmpt ==== Version update (0.6.8 -> 0.6.9) - Update to 0.6.9 * [Bug] An exception could be thrown during rendering when trying to access the release node of an empty envelope. * The fix for the OPL cutoff bug introduced in libopenmpt 0.6.7 was incomplete. * ULT: Offset commands exceeding 65535 samples were sometimes not imported correctly even if there was room for them. * After seeking with seek.sync_samples=1, the filter settings of playing notes were not updated since libopenmpt 0.6.7. * Loading of and seeking inside (malformed) modules with thousands of short sub-songs has been sped up. ==== okular ==== Subpackages: okular-lang - Add Discount 3 compatibility patch: * 0001-Compile-with-discount-3.patch ==== patterns-media ==== - rest_dvd: Add breeze5-wallpapers (boo#1209838) - Remove rest_core_dvd, it's unused. Some deps were added to it by accident, move them to rest_dvd. - Remove rest_cd_{gnome,kde,x11}, unused. ==== shaderc ==== Version update (2022.4 -> 2023.2) - Update to release 2023.2 * Fix C++20 compatibility: explicitly construct string_piece when comparing to `char *` ==== xorg-x11-server ==== Subpackages: xorg-x11-server-Xvfb xorg-x11-server-extra - U_xserver-composite-Fix-use-after-free-of-the-COW.patch * overlay window use-after-free (CVE-2023-1393, ZDI-CAN-19866, bsc#1209543) ==== yast2 ==== Version update (4.6.1 -> 4.6.2) Subpackages: yast2-logs - Replace calls to mkinitrd with dracut as mkinitrd will be dropped (bsc#1203019) - 4.6.2 ==== yast2-country ==== Version update (4.6.0 -> 4.6.1) Subpackages: yast2-country-data - Replace call to mkinitrd with dracut (bsc#1203019) - 4.6.1

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So Leap is transitioning to a 16 variation?
by Fritz Hudnut 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

> > Leap 16.0 Putting high level requirements for Alpha. I think I could > have something usable by end of this week. > https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:16.0 So far everything shows that base > system will have traditional 12 months + overlap support. [QUOTE] Migration path from the previous releases Users will be officially able to upgrade to Leap 16 only from the openSUSE Leap 15.5 transactional update server and from Leap Micro 5.X. There are experimental tools that can be used to migrate a non-transactional-update system, but we highly recommend doing a clean installation instead. The migrated system would have to be btrfs based. [/QUOTE] This is good news . . . will this migration path from 15.5 be available sometime soon? Or, the repos will have to be edited to "16" to make it to Alpha stage materials?? F

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About the usage scenarios of LiveCD
by Aua 0990 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

Hello everyone, I have been using openSUSE for some time. I have one suggestions for openSUSE’s LiveCD file: Like the Fedora community, changing the use scenario of Live ISO, so that the Live ISO file can be used for offline installation systems. The application scenarios and original intentions of the DVD iso file (ie, openSUSE-Tumbleweed-DVD-x86_64-Current-Media.iso) are good. However, in order to cram in as many packages as possible, the entire ISO file is very large (about 4.3GB) So, some people recommend downloading LiveCD or net-install iso for streamlined installation. This is also a good proposal, but there are still shortcomings, that is, the Live iso file provided by openSUSE can really only preview the desktop environment and cannot be used for offline installation systems. Although the online installation system can make the system in the latest state immediately after the installation is completed, and does not require additional adjustment of the software package. However, the above scenarios assume that the user has a good network connection. Once the network is congested, the network bandwidth is limited, or the connection quality of the downloaded mirror is not good, the experience of using live iso will decline rapidly. Users who experience a poor installation experience due to poor network quality may only choose to download the full ISO file (downloading such a large file is not a very easy task.) at this time. DVD iso is not only large in size, but also updated frequently (about five times a week). Not all files are necessary for users (for example, KDE users don’t need GNOME DE packages), but they are inevitably included in DVD iso files. Between the big DVD iso and the minimal net-install iso, openSUSE does not provide an iso file that is lenient about network quality, like Fedora-KDE-Live-x86_64-*.iso. Therefore, I suggest that openSUSE should make some changes like fedora, so that the live iso file can be used for offline installation.

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Tumbleweed - Review of the week 2023/13
by Dominique Leuenberger 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, This week we are fully back on track with 7 published snapshots. One significant change to mention again is: RPMs for i586 (intel 32bit systems) are no longer part of the regular Tumbleweed snapshots. This has been moved into a legacyx86 port in OBS and is published separately on download.opensuse.org. See also this announcement[0] on the factory mailing list. Other than that, the 7 snapshots published (0322, 0324…0329) contained these changes: * GNOME 44.0 (Snapshot 0324) * cURL 8.0.1 * Linux kernel 6.2.8 * LibreOffice 7.5.2.1 * Samba 4.18.0 * LLVM 16 * Mesa 23.0.1 * cmake 3.26.0 & 3.26.1 Staging projects keep on being filled, at the moment these changes are being tested: * systemd-rpm-macros: Drop support for -n/-f options in %service_del_postun * python-setuptools 67.6.0 * Linux kernel 6.2.9 * openSSL 3.1 * GNU coreutils 9.2 * TeXLive 2023 Cheers, Dominique [0] https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/message…

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About the usage scenarios of LiveCD
by Masozz 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

Hello everyone, I am [Hanjingxue](https://whiteboard-ui8.pages.dev/about/about-me/), and I have been using openSUSE for some time. I have one suggestions for openSUSE’s LiveCD file. Like the Fedora community, changing the use scenario of Live ISO, so that the Live ISO file can be used for offline installation systems. The application scenarios and original intentions of the DVD iso file (ie, openSUSE-Tumbleweed-DVD-x86_64-Current-Media.iso) are good. However, in order to cram in as many packages as possible, the entire ISO file is very large (about 4.3GB) So, some people recommend downloading LiveCD or net-install iso for streamlined installation. This is also a good proposal, but there are still shortcomings, that is, the Live iso file provided by openSUSE can really only preview the desktop environment and cannot be used for offline installation systems. Although the online installation system can make the system in the latest state immediately after the installation is completed, and does not require additional adjustment of the software package. However, the above scenarios assume that the user has a good network connection. Once the network is congested, the network bandwidth is limited, or the connection quality of the downloaded mirror is not good, the experience of using live iso will decline rapidly. Users who experience a poor installation experience due to poor network quality may only choose to download the full ISO file (downloading such a large file is not a very easy task.) at this time. DVD iso is not only large in size, but also updated frequently (about five times a week). Not all files are necessary for users (for example, KDE users don’t need GNOME DE packages), but they are inevitably included in DVD iso files. Between the big DVD iso and the minimal net-install iso, openSUSE does not provide an iso file that is lenient about network quality, like Fedora-KDE-Live-x86_64-*.iso. Therefore, I suggest that openSUSE should make some changes like fedora, so that the live iso file can be used for offline installation.

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Heads up: removing the mkinitrd wrapper
by Antonio Feijoo 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

Hi, As you might know, for quite some time `mkinitrd` is just an incomplete wrapper that internally calls `dracut` and `update-bootloader` (unless it's called with `-B`). Finally, all known packages that required it in their spec file or were found to be using it have been fixed. Hence, it's time to move on. The next `dracut` update in Factory will not provide the `dracut-mkinitrd-deprecated` package. This is planned to be submitted in mid-April, before 2023-04-14, so if you still use `mkinitrd` in any of your packages or custom scripts, please replace it with `dracut` (plus `update-bootloader` if necessary). Timeline: - March 2021 : Upstream support removed - https://github.com/dracutdevs/dracut/commit/43df4ee2 - May 2021 : Deprecation announcement on the Factory mailing list - https://lists.opensuse.org/archives/list/factory@lists.opensuse.org/thread/… - September 2022 : Bugs were opened for each affected package - https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1202352 - https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1202353 - https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1202443 - https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1203019 - https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1203025 - https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1203052 - April 2023 : Removal of the `dracut-mkinitrd-deprecated` package Best regards.

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D-Installer is now Agama
by Imobach Gonzalez Sosa 31 Mar '23

31 Mar '23

Hi all, It is not a secret that "D-Installer" was not the most loved name for the project. So after some discussions (and a previous failed attempt to find a better name), we have decided to rename the project to "Agama"[1]. As a consequence, D-Installer 0.8[2] was the last release with the old name. Yesterday, we released Agama 1 which is, basically, D-Installer 0.8 with small changes (and potential bugs) introduced by the renaming. Here you are some relevant links: * Repository: https://github.com/openSUSE/agama * RPM packages: https://build.opensuse.org/project/show/YaST:Head:Agama * Live ISO: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/YaST:Head:Agama/agama-live We will keep the D-Installer packages for some time, but expect them to be dropped sooner than later. Regards, Imo [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agama_%28lizard%29 [2] https://yast.opensuse.org/blog/2023-03-30/d-installer-0-8 -- Imobach González Sosa SUSE Linux LLC

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D-Installer 0.8 is out!
by Ancor Gonzalez Sosa 30 Mar '23

30 Mar '23

D-Installer will be renamed soon due to popular demand. But before that happens, we want to raise awareness of the new prototype 0.8 with many cool features like: - Preliminary support for unattended installation - Configuration of iSCSI - s390x support including management of DASDs - A brand new command-line interface - Improvements in the web interface, including an embedded terminal Check the full announcement at https://yast.opensuse.org/blog/2023-03-30/d-installer-0-8 Cheers. -- Ancor González Sosa YaST Team at SUSE Linux GmbH

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