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[opensuse-factory] Contrib: Packages Review: "banner"
by Alexey Eremenko 14 Sep '08

14 Sep '08

Hi All, Next package, "banner" - ASCII Art text renderer Description: Banner fills an apparent hole in Linux - that is, that is does not provide a "banner" program itself, while nearly all UNIX systems seem to do so. Banner prints a "banner" on the screen that corresponds to the first 10 characters of a string entered on the command line, in a way similar to what you might see when using Solaris or AIX. There are fancier things out there, but this is nice and simple. This package is in OBS. Current maintainer: me (Alexey Eromenko "Technologov") URL http://www.cedar-solutions.com/software.html License: GPL Latest update: Wasn't updated for long time. Program is feature complete, and doesn't need updating. OBS URL: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/FenixNBK/openSUSE_11.0/ Testing: Package received testing from me 10.2/10.3/11.0 (32-bit) =============================================== What do you think of the package? -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] ext3 filesystem & RPM database problems with small blocksize
by Felix Miata 14 Sep '08

14 Sep '08

Mentioning http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11564 here FYI since a bug in Novell Bugzilla would probably get closed to upstream. -- "Unless the Lord builds the house, its builders labor in vain." Psalm 127:1 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Anyone with reduced midnight commander functionality
by Dave Plater 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

Hi, I had reduced functionality with mc while running the 2.6.27 kernel, notably f3 view, f4 edit keys not working and failure to unpack rpm and zip files while bz,tgz etc unpack. Regards Dave P --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 openSUSE distribution
by Christoph Thiel 12 Sep '08

12 Sep '08

Hi everyone, I'm back in Nuremberg now. The team was pushing hard this week to get something installable out of the build system. In the end, we had something that started to install, but didn't get through, due to the new product handling, which is still causing some problems. Therefore we won't release any Alpha3plus this week. Coming next week: openSUSE 11.1 Beta1 -- get ready for testing! Have a great weekend, Christoph -- Christoph Thiel, Tech. Project Management, Research & Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] what goes throught BETA and what goes in STABLE
by Felix Möller 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

Hi, it seems like factory dependencies have some problems at the moment. Today zypper removed itself because of a missing dependency it seems. (without warning!) Earlier this week there was the pixman issue, causing Firefox any many other apps to crash. So I am wondering myself what goes into STABLE and what gets directly into factory (STABLE)? Currently Eclipse 3.4 is in BETA.[1] But shouldn't the core libraries like zypper and the X be even more tested? May I ask who is testing BETA? I do not want to offend anybody, I'd just like to know how the separation of STABLE and BETA works... greetings Felix Möller [1] bug #293439 --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 KDE way for openSUSE 11.1
by Michael Loeffler 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

Hi, as discussed in a former project meeting we should discuss how we handle KDE in openSUSE 11.1. To avoid any misunderstanding we will offer on the DVD still KDE and Gnome. It just the question which or how many KDE's ;-) The proposal of the internal team (beineri, michl, cthiel, aj, klaas, mlasars, zonker) is trying to make KDE 4.1 as good as possible and maintain our reputation to offer the best integrated KDE. Top 3 reasons for that: - KDE 4.1 is ready for prime time - clear decision and move to the future - limited ressources KDE 4.1 is released and - no doubt - much better than 4.0. But there are still discussions that KDE 4.1 lacks some capabilities KDE 3.5.x had. If you have any issue with KDE 4.1 on openSUSE please report a bug to drive attention on it and patches are also welcome ;-) What can/should we do? a) Delivery of KDE 4.1 on media as our default KDE desktop, add some 3.5.x applications where necessary, older KDE through online repos Pros: - clear position and direction to the future - KDE 4.1 ready for the mayority of users - focus of efforts to KDE 4.1 Cons: - some users will lack certain features or habits b) We may add again both KDEs to the DVD Pros: we offer choice and may make everybody happy Cons: - space limitations on DVD may prevent this option - maintenance and integration of 2 KDE desktops needed which the internal KDE team hardly can accomplish - we're backing a desktop which anyway won't receive much attention from upstream anymore - confusion - which KDE should I choose Please bring up your opinion so that we're doing the right thing for openSUSE 11.1 Best M -- Michael Löffler, Product Management Email: michl(a)suse.de Phone: +49 911 74053-376 SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] 32 bit factory zypper out of sync with other packages
by Dave Plater 11 Sep '08

11 Sep '08

Hi, somebody has forgotten to put zypper-0.12.3-2.i586.rpm into factory, libzypp and satsolver-tools are up to date. Regards Dave P --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] problems with todays factory
by felix＠derklecks.de 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

Hi, i just did my biweekly factory update but now my system seems to be quiet messed up. Something is brocken in zypper all commands end with: # LANG=CC zypper ref Target initialization failed: rpmdb2solv -r '/' -p '/etc/products.d' > '/var/cache/zypp/solv/@System/solvnlW7Uo' repo_products: syntax error at line 1:0 and all GTK applications do not work because of: # thunderbird /usr/lib/thunderbird/thunderbird-bin: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libcairo.so.2: undefined symbol: pixman_region32_init Therefore I do not have nm-applet anymore ... Just to make everybody aware of it, will look into it tomorrow. HTH Felix Möller --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Mango - Migration Assistant Next GeneratiOn
by Pavol Rusnak 09 Sep '08

09 Sep '08

Hi all! I would like to introduce Mango, Google Summer of Code project mentored by me and implemented by Peter Libic. You can learn about it on my blog[1] and even more information could be found on openSUSE wiki[2]. We are really looking for feedback. Thank you! [1] http://stick.gk2.sk/blog/?p=40 [2] http://en.opensuse.org/Mango -- Best Regards / S pozdravom, Pavol RUSNAK SUSE LINUX, s.r.o Package Maintainer Lihovarska 1060/12 PGP 0xA6917144 19000 Praha 9, CR prusnak[at]suse.cz http://www.suse.cz --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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] Zypper vs Yum: Lacking Features discussion
by Alexey Eremenko 08 Sep '08

08 Sep '08

Hi All, I would like to discuss a bit about zypper and yum, and perhaps, open feature-requests. Yum is old Red Hat's technology while zypper is new SUSE's thing :) More seriously: -I have heard that yum has ability to show the package changelog diff for pacakges to be updated, while zypper lacks it -yum shows the repository from which the package will be installed. (Very useful if you have many repos with duplicate packages.) What do you think ? Are those small annoyances touch you ? -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov" --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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