July 2008 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[openFate 305144] [Feature-request] Yast as a Linux learning tool
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Jan '18

30 Jan '18

Feature added by: Arvin Schnell <aschnell(a)novell.com> Feature #305144, revision 1, last change by Title: [Feature-request] Yast as a Linux learning tool openSUSE-11.1: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Alexey Eremenko <al4321(a)gmail.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Hi All ! I Have very good new idea: converting Yast into a Linux learning tool. This is very simple to achieve: Yast must show the commands it executes and files it modifies, in a nice GUI dialog. It will allow all kinds of Linux users understand how things really work. Enable learn new things or remind how old-but-forgotten things work for seasoned people. Great, isn't it ? P.S. Jay Vollmer recommends, that among the commands that Yast shows as it executing, it should also recommend "man pages" for the relevant underlying commands. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov", 29.jul.2008. Discussion: #1: Alexey Eremenko <al4321(a)gmail.com> (2008-07-29 12:09:11) Rajko M. wrote: If one wants to see what is gong on in background, than look at logs in realtime. There is console (Konsole) and command tail. Run as root: tail -f /var/log/YaST2/y2log and then start YaST and play with. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov", 29.jul.2008. #2: Jerry Houston <jerry.houston(a)comcast.net> (2008-07-29 15:41:34) Sounds like a great way for new users to learn more about what's under the hood. Or, what's under the bonnet, for the Brits. #3: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis(a)novell.com> (2008-07-31 07:11:21) Moving to maintainers to decide. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305144

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[openFate 305099] please have yast do a fsck before attempting to mount existing filesystems
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 28 Jan '15

28 Jan '15

Feature added by: Arvin Schnell <aschnell(a)novell.com> Feature #305099, revision 1, last change by Title: please have yast do a fsck before attempting to mount existing filesystems openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Per Jessen <per.jessen(a)enidan.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I was doing a new install, but wanted to keep my /home filesystem (JFS). No problem, except that the filesystem wasn't clean and needed an fsck. As far as I can tell, yast didn't do this, so mounting of the /home filesystem failed, which caused the entirely installation process to abend and start over. Discussion: #1: Stefan Hundhammer <sh(a)novell.com> (2008-02-21 06:26:43) I'd really hate to have my 100+ GB ext3 partitions fscked. That takes forever. #2: Per Jessen <per.jessen(a)enidan.com> (2008-02-21 07:15:33) Even when they're clean? It's done on every bootup anyway. See /etc/init.d/boot.localfs #3: Jozef Uhliarik <juhliarik(a)novell.com> (2008-02-21 08:21:41) What is your opinion Thomas? #4: Thomas Fehr <fehr(a)novell.com> (2008-02-21 08:24:13) That would need an feature request, not a bug report. #6: Stephan Kulow <coolo(a)novell.com> (2008-02-21 12:04:27) I think it's not too uncommon that people reinstall their system _because_ the old one had a problem, so dirty file systems may not be too uncommon. #7: Thomas Fehr <fehr(a)novell.com> (2008-02-25 03:00:03) What the customer described happens on JFS, this is an unsupported filesystem exactly for the reason that it behaves quite fundamentally different to most other filesystems. Filesystems like ext3 or reiser simply do their log reply when they are dirty and all is fine. So if you want such things to be added, please specify it as a feature request. Since there needs to be an interactive user interface to the filesystem check program this is in no way a simple change. Or would you prefer for example do a rebuild of reiserfs internal tree as default without asking the user first? Problem is that the questions the filesystem check tools ask the user are quite special and of course totally different for different filesystem types. #8: Duncan Mac-Vicar <dmacvicar(a)novell.com> (2008-07-17 08:13:00) I happen to suffer from this bug too once. I think the bug is not that the installation cleans the disk, but at least say that is not clean instead of crashing (in my case it was an installation where yast thought the disk was mounted but it was not) #9: Arvin Schnell <aschnell(a)novell.com> (2008-07-17 08:22:23) No time for 11.1. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305099

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[openFate 305112] Add webcam configuration module for yast
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Oct '12

19 Oct '12

Feature added by: Michael Loeffler <michl(a)novell.com> Feature #305112, revision 1, last change by Title: Add webcam configuration module for yast openSUSE-11.1: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Michael Loeffler <michl(a)novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Webcam is configured automatically. But for users having trouble with configuration a webcam configuration module would be useful. See also bug #359729 Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Users in trouble with webcam configuration need a webcam configuration possibility in YaST. As the usage of webcams is rising, eg. through instant messanger this feature request adresses more and more users -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305112

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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 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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[openFate 305077] Improve support for macbook/pro
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Sep '08

10 Sep '08

Feature added by: Michael Loeffler (michl(a)novell.com) Feature #305077, revision 1 Title: Improve support for macbook/pro openSUSE-11.1: Evaluation Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Michael Loeffler (michl(a)novell.com) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The recent ubuntu 7.10 release had really really good macbook pro support. Since it is doable, it would be great to have better support in opensuse 11.0 for the macbook/pro. ie, mouse (trackpad), keyboard, wireless, bluetooth, sound, etc. http://en.opensuse.org/MacBook_Pro_Specials http://en.opensuse.org/Installation_on_MacBook_Pro_Intel_(x86) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305077

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[openFate 303520] Default NTP Setup
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 31 Jul '08

31 Jul '08

Feature changed by: Stephan Kulow <coolo(a)novell.com> Feature #303520, revision 16 Title: Default NTP Setup openSUSE-11.1: Candidate Priority Requester: Mandatory Projectmanager: Mandatory SLED-11: Candidate Priority Requester: Mandatory Projectmanager: Mandatory SLES-11: Candidate Priority Requester: Mandatory Projectmanager: Mandatory Requested by: Federico Lucifredi <flucifredi(a)novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: A Yast pane should prompt for NTP set up, which should be configured by default, but of course can also be disabled there. Documentation Impact: Installation guide needs to be updated. Discussion: #1: Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov(a)novell.com> (2008-06-17 12:56:47) Federico, NTP setup is already possible. Do you want it in a more prominent place? Also I see a missing way for the product to pre-define the value, correct? #2: Federico Lucifredi <flucifredi(a)novell.com> (2008-06-23 21:03:12) (reply to #1) right. I want to see it pre-enabled by default againt a dedicated suse. pool.ntp.org / time.novell.com server (separate feature for that). We are lagging a bit behind Win and Mac where the vendos provide their own time source, and we need to catch up there. #3: Jiri Srain <jsrain(a)novell.com> (2008-07-07 12:18:32) We will need not only to enable NTP during installation, but display this information in the installation proposal (and possibly time zone dialog) as well. + #4: Stephan Kulow <coolo(a)novell.com> (2008-07-31 16:15:46) + for openSUSE it's 0.opensuse.pool.ntp.org 1.opensuse.pool.ntp.org 2. + opensuse.pool.ntp.org 3.opensuse.pool.ntp.org, for SLE there is no NTP + server. time.novell.com can not be used, IS&T does not provide that + level of service. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=303520

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[openFate 302921] Testing openSUSE Feature Tracking
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

Feature changed by: Juergen Weigert <jw(a)novell.com> Feature #302921, revision 22 Title: Testing openSUSE Feature Tracking openSUSE-10.3: Done Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Andreas Jaeger <aj(a)novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Just a test - should go to opensuse-features(a)opensuse.org Discussion: #1: Hendrik Vogelsang <hvogel(a)novell.com> (2007-10-30 13:00:36) blah blah blah #2: Hendrik Vogelsang <hvogel(a)novell.com> (2007-10-30 13:02:35) (reply to #1) blubb lubb lbuib #13: Hendrik Vogelsang <hvogel(a)novell.com> (2007-10-30 13:57:04) (reply to #1) dsdsdwsd #14: Hendrik Vogelsang <hvogel(a)novell.com> (2007-10-30 13:59:12) (reply to #13) wsdsdsds #15: Hendrik Vogelsang <hvogel(a)novell.com> (2007-10-30 14:01:10) (reply to #13) dsdsds #16: Hendrik Vogelsang <hvogel(a)novell.com> (2007-10-30 14:11:35) (reply to #13) ddsddds #3: Hendrik Vogelsang <hvogel(a)novell.com> (2007-10-30 13:12:39) this is working #4: Hendrik Vogelsang <hvogel(a)novell.com> (2007-10-30 13:16:03) (reply to #3) or bnot #10: Hendrik Vogelsang <hvogel(a)novell.com> (2007-10-30 13:48:53) (reply to #3) dwsdsdsd #5: Hendrik Vogelsang <hvogel(a)novell.com> (2007-10-30 13:27:44) swsasaas #6: Hendrik Vogelsang <hvogel(a)novell.com> (2007-10-30 13:33:36) sqsqasas #7: Hendrik Vogelsang <hvogel(a)novell.com> (2007-10-30 13:36:11) wdwdswd #8: Hendrik Vogelsang <hvogel(a)novell.com> (2007-10-30 13:38:00) dwsdsds #9: Hendrik Vogelsang <hvogel(a)novell.com> (2007-10-30 13:46:33) wswdds #11: Michael Loeffler <michl(a)novell.com> (2007-10-30 13:49:14) wjnd sd s�dlkj sid #12: Hendrik Vogelsang <hvogel(a)novell.com> (2007-10-30 13:52:27) (reply to #11) sasasas #17: Hendrik Vogelsang <hvogel(a)novell.com> (2007-10-30 14:48:56) (reply to #12) xdsdsds #18: Gerald Pfeifer <gp(a)novell.com> (2007-11-02 21:51:25) Moving from openSUSE 10.3 to openSUSE 11.0. + #19: Juergen Weigert <jw(a)novell.com> (2008-07-29 21:53:03) + ping-pong. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=302921

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[openFate 304937] Wireless dynamic WEP connection with 802.1x authentication in Yast/sysconfig
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

Feature changed by: Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov(a)novell.com> Feature #304937, revision 5 Title: Wireless dynamic WEP connection with 802.1x authentication in Yast/sysconfig - openSUSE-11.1: Evaluation + openSUSE-11.1: Rejected by Stanislav Visnovsky <visnov(a)novell.com> + reject date: 2008-07-29 15:43:08 + reject reason: This cannot be done in time for openSUSE 11.1. Priority Requester: Important + openSUSE-11.2: New + Priority + Requester: Important Requested by: Helmut Schaa <hschaa(a)novell.com> + Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Yast/sysconfig does already support WPA-EAP wireless connections but is missing support for dynamic WEP connections using 802.1x authentication. wpa_supplicant is able to start such a connection with a network block which uses key_mgmt=IEEE8021X instead of key_mgmt=WPA- EAP. Example: network={ ssid=xxx key_mgmt=IEEE8021X eap=TTLS identity=xxx password=xxx ... } Based on bug #380671 comment #16 and #19. Discussion: #2: Helmut Schaa <hschaa(a)novell.com> (2008-07-09 13:34:35) (reply to #1) This request is about dynamic WEP, not static WEP keys (which is already supported). The 802.1x authentication is used to derive dynamic WEP keys repeatedly. It is much more secure then plain static WEP (although not as secure as WPA of course) and still widely used. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=304937

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