December 2008 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[openFate 305148] Automatic Compiling of Kernel Modules
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 Sep '12

04 Sep '12

Feature added by: Andreas Jaeger <aj(a)novell.com> Feature #305148, revision 1, last change by Title: Automatic Compiling of Kernel Modules openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Andreas Jaeger <aj(a)novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The Standard Linux-Kernel provides a lot of hardware drivers/kernel modules. Nevertheless there are still devices not supported by the kernel. If a user compiles a kernel module by himself, he has to redo this step after each kernel update (if he is aware at all, that this step is needed). My idea was to install kernel-source, kernel-syms, gcc and make with each standard installation and to define a standard directory for the source code of kernel modules, e.g /usr/src/updates. When a Kernel Update is done, the system looks on boot in /usr/src/updates for directories and does there a 'make' and 'make install'. (build a kmp-package ?) If this could become a standard for other distributions (LSB) as well and corresponding init scripts would exist, third party kernel modules could be installed automagically after extracting code to /usr/src/update, so there would be some kind of standard for installing external kernel modules. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305148

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[openFate 305493] Look at plymouth for splash during boot
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 27 Aug '12

27 Aug '12

Feature added by: Vincent Untz <vuntz(a)novell.com> Feature #305493, revision 1, last change by Title: Look at plymouth for splash during boot openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Vincent Untz <vuntz(a)novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I wanted to open a fate feature about this when I first heard of plymouth, but reading http://fedoramagazine.wordpress.com/2008/10/21/interview-fedora-10s-better-… really makes me think we should go this way. Ray's comment starting with "Every flicker and mode change in the boot process takes away from the whole experience." is especially interesting. Is it okay to track the "don't show grub by default" here? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305493

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[openFate 305593] Send notifications on link, branch and aggregate, show them in interface
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 23 May '11

23 May '11

Feature added by: Pavol Rusnak <prusnak(a)novell.com> Feature #305593, revision 1, last change by Title: Send notifications on link, branch and aggregate, show them in interface Buildservice: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Pavol Rusnak <prusnak(a)novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: * send notification emails on link, branch and aggregate and/or show how many packages are linked to current package - that should reduce number of deletions which break other people's packages -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305593

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[openFate 305587] Yast template for theming
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 01 Apr '11

01 Apr '11

Feature added by: Jakub Steiner <jimmac(a)novell.com> Feature #305587, revision 1, last change by Title: Yast template for theming openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jim McEldowney <jimmac(a)erie.net> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: To be able to skin the Yast installer properly, I would welcome the existence of a YCP template to include all of the widgets included in the actual installer. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Without such a testbed it's extremely hard and error prone to create new styling. In some cases it's impossible to see the implications of a style change until after it has been submitted to build and new distribution snapshot released. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305587

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[openFate 305075] Allow to set the owner of a partition
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Mar '11

16 Mar '11

Feature added by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell(a)novell.com) Feature #305075, revision 1 Title: Allow to set the owner of a partition openSUSE-11.1: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Sven Burmeister (sven.burmeister(a)gmx.net) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: If a user buys a new external harddrive and partitions it via YaST he will not be able to write on it, since the filesystem is owned by root. A normal user would need to know about how to use konsole and which command to use in order to change the owner. It would be a lot easier, if the user could change the owner within the partitioning module. Of course this should not be possible for system-partitions such as / and /usr etc, yet /windows and /media, as well as /home/xyz/ should be fine. Discussion: #1: Arvin Schnell(aschnell(a)novell.com) (2008-07-15 08:32:00) Do you want to set gui and uid in /etc/fstab? #2: Sven Burmeister(sven.burmeister(a)gmx.net) (2008-07-15 08:56:26) I'm not sure which is the best approach. Either the user could do something that replaces "chown user:group ." on the new partition or some predefined gui/uid to select from, because the normal user has no idea about those and the numbers that go with them. The goal is that a user that knows the root password can not only partition a new harddrive via GUI but also make it accessible (rw) to users without having to know anything about fstab-syntax and options. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305075

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[openFate 305081] openSUSE Testfeature
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 11 Dec '10

11 Dec '10

Feature added by: Christopher Hofmann (cwh(a)novell.com) Feature #305081, revision 1 Title: openSUSE Testfeature openSUSE-11.1: New Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Christopher Hofmann (cwh(a)novell.com) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Feel free to play aroud with this feature. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305081

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[openFate 305312] OpenSUSE <= 11.1 Alpha 2 don't install on SD card
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 Oct '10

06 Oct '10

Feature added by: Arvin Schnell <aschnell(a)novell.com> Feature #305312, revision 1, last change by Title: OpenSUSE <= 11.1 Alpha 2 don't install on SD card openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Harald Welte <haraldwelte(a)viatech.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: [Please note that I'm working for the CPU+Chipset maker VIA and this is an actually important feature for the 'netbook' class of devices in the coming months] Recently, BIOS vendors have been starting to implement a 'boot from SD card' feature, much like they have added 'boot from USB memory stick' some years ago. The only SD-card host controller that I've seen this implemented for is SDHCI compliant host controllers. While this is a nice feature to support, for most systems it is just a gimmick and not something neccessarry. However, there are hand-held devices such as netbooks in the pipeline which do not have any other mass storage device. No hard disk and no IDE-attached flash disk or the like. They just have one (more likely two or more) SD card slots and you install and store not only your data but the entire operating system on that SD card. Furthermore, there are products like Samsung moviNAND which are basically a SDcard in a BGA package that can be soldered onto a PCB. So from a protocol and software point of view it is a SD card, but it is mechanically soldered onto the board. Such device have gained some popularity in ARM-based designs, but we'll likely see them in the x86 world, too. To make this happen, The distribution installation initrd needs to 1. include and auto-load the sdhc.ko and sdhci_pci.ko kernel modules 2. create the /dev/mmcblk* device nodes as per udev/hotplug events The actual distribution installation program needs to 1. recognize /dev/mmcblk* as block devices that can be used as target device 2. use a grub-install or similar program that can discover the bios drive number to /dev/mmcblk* device name mapping I have outlined the full details at http://wiki.gpl-devices.org/wiki/Installing_Linux_on_booting_SD_card -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305312

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[openFate 305267] Installation using Orca (screen reader) to Improve Accessibility
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Aug '10

10 Aug '10

Feature added by: Lukas Ocilka <locilka(a)novell.com> Feature #305267, revision 1, last change by Title: Installation using Orca (screen reader) to Improve Accessibility openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Darragh Ó Héiligh <d(a)digitaldarragh.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Original title: Accessibility for installation could be automated with better results. Users can currently press F9 at the boot screen to hear the boot options spoken. THis is a fantastic new feature and is one that OpenSuSE is the first to add. For this you should be very proud. However, I would ask that you further build upon this success by recognising that accessibility at the boot menu has been enabled and automatically start the Orca screen reader with also setting gnome accessibility to enabled. One further consideration should be taken into account. To enable Orca to access the installation screen, Orca must be run as root. However, if Orca is run as root, the rest of the desktop is not accessible due to permissioning issues. Therefore, the installation should be run automatically if the f9 key si pressed. Note, a similar feature excluding the accessible boot menu has also been added to Ubuntu 8.04. Note that they also have a key press (F5) to automatically enable assistive technologies for installation on their live CD. References: See bnc #417874 (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=417874) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305267

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[openFate 305589] Checkbox "include user home projects in search"
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Jul '10

30 Jul '10

Feature added by: Pavol Rusnak <prusnak(a)novell.com> Feature #305589, revision 1, last change by Title: Checkbox "include user home projects in search" Buildservice: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Pavol Rusnak <prusnak(a)novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Here's one idea to start with: on the search page, have a checkbox labeled "Include user home projects in search" which defaults to OFF. Then at least you have one level of separation (between "official" and home projects) that is clear to both developers and users. And developers will be motivated to move their generally useful packages into an "official" project by the fact that the default checkbox is OFF. http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-buildservice/2008-12/msg00088.html -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305589

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[openFate 305104] Provide possibility to configure WEP/WPA/WPA2/... at installation
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 09 Mar '10

09 Mar '10

Feature added by: Lukas Ocilka <locilka(a)novell.com> Feature #305104, revision 1, last change by Title: Provide possibility to configure WEP/WPA/WPA2/... at installation openSUSE-11.1: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Jim Creech <jacreech(a)suddenlink.net> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: It is possible to configure a network in the first stage installation but it is only possible to select DHCP or Static + configure proxy. It is impossible to configure a secure wireless connection. See also: Bug 293609 (https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293609) - No provision for entering WEP at installation -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305104

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