December 2009 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 308389] Zypper - ingore All
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Sep '11

20 Sep '11

Feature added by: Josef Reidinger (jreidinger) Feature #308389, revision 1 Title: Zypper - ingore All openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Josef Reidinger (jreidinger) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I think it would nice to have use same answer for similar questions. Like if repository is not accessible or recently synced, then ignore all problems instead of individual answers. Use Case: For example if factory is synced and package is no longer available, then use ignore all and after run refresh and repair via verify problems. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: If update contain many packages and user testing factory, then manual ignoring problems takes too much time and decrease time to testing. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308389

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[New: openFATE 308378] Add simple selection of partitions in installation process
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Sep '11

15 Sep '11

Feature added by: Mindaugas Baranauskas (embar-) Feature #308378, revision 1 Title: Add simple selection of partitions in installation process openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Mindaugas Baranauskas (embar-) Description: Need option for simple partitions asigning to mount points in installation. In openSUSE installation from DVD, the selection of partitions of system – isn't friendly to new user. We could add option to simple (and more grafical) management of partitions. Now in comparing this installation step in openSUSE, Fedora, Mandriva and Ubuntu: our openSUSE is most uncomfortable (a lot of mouse clicks)! Ubuntu 9.10 and Fedora 12 provides simpler management; And Mandriva 2010.0 surprized – is the clearest for beginig user. The Mandriva way: Press "Use existting partition" and "Next" See collumn of partitions and near the collumn of mount points, that can be changed by click :) That's all! The partition with mount point "/" – will be automaticaly formated. I expect, that for most users – this is the most desireble way. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308378

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[openFATE 305932] testfeature
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 07 Sep '11

07 Sep '11

Feature added by: Chin-Hui Ho (tomcat) Feature #305932, revision 1, last change by Title: testfeature Requested by: Christopher Hofmann (cwh) Description: test 123 please delete me -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305932

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[openFATE 307777] Package Phoronix Test Suite
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 31 Aug '11

31 Aug '11

Feature added by: Ted Bullock (meiqur) Feature #307777, revision 1 Title: Package Phoronix Test Suite Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ted Bullock (meiqur) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Phoronix is a moderately popular linux related website which has compiled a series of tests into a suite they call the Phoronix Test Suite. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: It would be interesting for users to be able to observe the changes in the performance of their systems from release to release. Also, it would useful to actually bring some numbers to discussions in bug reports rather than just vague statements like "computer is slow" -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307777

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[openFATE 307491] php5-qt
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Feature added by: Dean Hilkewich (deanjo13) Feature #307491, revision 1 Title: php5-qt Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Dean Hilkewich (deanjo13) Description: It would be nice if php5-qt could be included with the php modules in the build service. There should be no legal issues with this now as qt now has a free licence. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307491

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[openFATE 306604] Include CodeAnalyst-gui package
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Feature added by: Suravee Suthikulpanit (suravee) Feature #306604, revision 1 Title: Include CodeAnalyst-gui package Requested by: Suravee Suthikulpanit (suravee) Description: - CodeAnalyst is a performance analysis suite. It provids graphical utilitys for running Oprofile, and analyzing result on AMD-based systems. CodeAnalyst includes several features to aid profile analysis such as inline-function analysis, code-block analysis, and a utility for profile comparison, DiffAnalayst. - CodeAnalyst-gui package is currently in the Contrib repository. - A new version (2.8 Update1) will be available soon with IBS support. - It is compatible with OProfile-0.9.4 and OProfile-0.9.5 (required for IBS support). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306604

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[openFATE 306911] Lightscribe application
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Feature added by: Heribert Riesbeck (ve3fd) Feature #306911, revision 1 Title: Lightscribe application Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Heribert Riesbeck (ve3fd) Description: This will allow to label lightscribe DVD/CD with appropriate pictures, themes or descriptions as opposed to felt pen labeling. This would be a very desirable application for photographers. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306911

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[New: openFATE 308459] Include Sage open-source mathematics software
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Feature added by: Todd R (TheBlackCat) Feature #308459, revision 1 Title: Include Sage open-source mathematics software openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Todd R (theblackcat) Description: Sage is a python-based GPL advanced mathematics software similar to the closed-source mathematica and the open-source maxima. It seems pretty powerful, supporting many advanced mathematics operations, plotting, and other higher-level mathematics tasks. It provides a nice web interface. Further, the new Cantor advanced mathematics software that will be included with KDE 4.4 can act as a front-end for sage (as well as maxima and R for now). However, there is no Sage package for openSUSE. Considering an official KDE program now uses it I think it is a good idea to provide a package. Since Cantor is now in the main KDE education software group I think Sage should probably be in the main release for openSUSE 11.3. In the meantime there should probably be a package in KDE4 Unstable now and one in KDE 4 factory when it switches to KDE 4.4 beta 1, and probably another in the science and/or education buildservice repository. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308459

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[openFATE 306323] Zimbra Mail Server Support for openSUSE 11.x
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Feature added by: Masim Sugianto (vavai) Feature #306323, revision 1, last change by Title: Zimbra Mail Server Support for openSUSE 11.x Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Masim Sugianto (vavai) Description: Zimbra Mail Server is a popular mail server & collaboration suite. Zimbra team has decided to leave openSUSE as unsupported platform due to minimal download for their product (which should be wrong because they said Zimbra for openSUSE only 41 times downloaded comparing thousand for Ubuntu or Fedora). openSUSE is one of the best choice and strong distro for server. It would be sad to see openSUSE fans migrate to another distro only for one reason : Zimbra could not be installed on openSUSE 11.x and there is no binary package for openSUSE 11.x The best way to make openSUSE as best Distro for server area are providing Zimbra package (community builds). There is a project called Zimbra Community builds (see related article) but the author seems to hold the project. If it's possible to be build on build service or with another technique (manual build ?), I will help as much as I can for testing and implementing the binary package and providing the documentation. Related article : 1. http://vavai.net/2009/01/01/zimbra-and-opensuse-thread-on-zimbra-forum/ 2. http://sourceforge.net/projects/zimbracommunity/ 3. http://varlogmessages.vroomvroom.org/documentation/opensuse-port -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306323

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[openFATE 307392] Disable logging as root by default
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

Feature added by: Piotrek Juzwiak (BenderBendingRodriguez) Feature #307392, revision 1 Title: Disable logging as root by default openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Piotrek Juzwiak (benderbendingrodriguez) Description: As some people may not understand the linux operating system principles they often log in as root which in some cases may be disastrous. I propose to disable logging as root by default, the user can always obtain root privileges by invoking su or su -. If there would be some advanced users that really need to log in as root then they will know how to "unlock" that. If i'm correct it's just a matter of adjusting some scripts right? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307392

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[New: openFATE 308324] location-based ornting
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Aug '11

16 Aug '11

Feature added by: Anar Taori (anartaori) Feature #308324, revision 1 Title: location-based ornting openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Anar Taori (anartaori) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: ability to print to nearest printer based on client device connecting in from Test Case: xyz Use Case: healthcare - doctor enters patient room .... Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: benefit - hipaa compliance -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308324

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[openFATE 308045] Switch to native printer config
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 16 Aug '11

16 Aug '11

Feature added by: Markus K (KAMiKAZOW) Feature #308045, revision 1 Title: Switch to native printer config openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Markus K (kamikazow) Description: openSUSE 11.2 already ditched a few YaST modules that have native (GNOME/KDE) counterparts. One of the next steps sould be printer configuration. system-config-printer-kde is a port of GNOME's system-config-printer. The latter one is already available for openSUSE. To package scp-KDE, a similar approach to the (K)Ubuntu one makes sense: Bundle the Python files used by both into a separate package (system-config-printer-common) and then make system-config-printer-gnome and system-config-printer-kde available. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308045

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[New: openFATE 308372] lib→lib32; lib64→lib
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Aug '11

12 Aug '11

Feature added by: Matt Williams (Milliams) Feature #308372, revision 1 Title: lib→lib32; lib64→lib openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Matt Williams (milliams) Description: Now that 64 bit machines are almost ubiquitous, how about we make openSUSE treat 64 bit libraries as the default. This is already seen in the fact that in the buld service we have default packages and then 32 bitt packages are explicitly labeled as so. I propose: * Place all 32 bit libraries in directories called lib32 (e.g. /usr/lib32 ) * Place all 64 bit libraries in directories called lib (e.g. /usr/lib ) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308372

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[openFATE 307624] Build all noarch subpackages as noarch
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Feature added by: Pavol Rusnak (prusnak) Feature #307624, revision 1 Title: Build all noarch subpackages as noarch openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Pavol Rusnak (prusnak) Description: The new RPM brought a feature which allows to build subpackages as noarch even when the main package is architecture dependent. By using this we could save lots of space on mirrors and media. See http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2009-09/msg00170.html for reference. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307624

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[openFATE 307872] CAcert root certificate as a part of openSUSE
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Feature added by: Jaromír Červenka (Cervajz) Feature #307872, revision 1 Title: CAcert root certificate as a part of openSUSE openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jaromír Červenka (cervajz) Description: CAcert (http://www.cacert.org/) is organisation issuing free certificates for everyone. It could be useful, when root certificate (http://www.cacert.org/index.php?id=3) will be a standard part of openSUSE distro. A lot of people and companies (http://www.cacert.org/stats.php) using their certificates. Some other Linux/*nix distributions has CAcert root certificate also included (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cacert#Inclusion_status) . -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307872

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[openFATE 307172] Remove unneeded packages
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

Feature added by: Martin Marx (nitro424) Feature #307172, revision 1 Title: Remove unneeded packages openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Martin Marx (nitro424) Description: I need a possibility to remove unneeded, automaticly installed software (orphans). Ubuntu example: apt-get autoremove Mandriva example: urpme packagename (Invoke it simply with urpme packagename to remove a package and any packages that depend on it.) Arch Linux example: pacman -Rsn; pacman -Rsnc; pacman -Qdt; this is my favorite I like to install and try different software. After trying it, I often want to remove it completely. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307172

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[openFATE 306627] depencency tracking for uninstalling
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

Feature added by: Jacques Boulet (oneinch) Feature #306627, revision 1 Title: depencency tracking for uninstalling openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jacques Boulet (oneinch) Description: The openSuSE package management is virtually unbeatable in the dependency tracking for installing department. But when it comes to uninstalling it really leaves little to be desired. It would be great if YAST and zypper kept track of the dependencies that were installed for a specific package during its install and checked the dependencies during the uninstall to see if they are in use by something else or not. And if not then give the ability to remove the unused dependencies. For example I install package "Foo" the requires library "Bar." Library "Bar" is not installed so it gets installed when I install "Foo." Later I realize the package "Foo" wasn't exactly what I needed and wish to remove it. But uninstalling just removes the package "Foo" and leaves the library "Bar" sitting around unused and taking up space. So if I want to remove the library "Bar" i must do so manually. It would be great if I wish to uninstall "Foo" that the package manager would have the ability to check any dependencies that were needed and installed for package "Foo" and see if they are still needed by another package or lib and if so, keep it, and if not remove it. Also, it would be awesome if one could remove an entire package group such as uninstalling gnome or KDE. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306627

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[openFATE 306438] yast2 sw_single should provide a view of packages where no other packages depends on
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

Feature added by: Michael Calmer (mcalmer) Feature #306438, revision 1, last change by Title: yast2 sw_single should provide a view of packages where no other packages depends on openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Michael Calmer (mcalmer) Description: If I want to cleanup a workstation and remove packages which I do not need anymore I be able to know some package names which I have really selected for installation. But such packages pullin some dependencies which I am not aware of and so the number of packages growth and growth. A view, which shows me all packages where no other package depends on would help me to find packages I can remove without breaking dependencies. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306438

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[openFATE 305992] Easier removal of packages installed due dependencies and not manually by user
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 23 Jul '11

23 Jul '11

Feature added by: Nikanth K (nikanth) Feature #305992, revision 1, last change by Title: Easier removal of packages installed due dependencies and not manually by user openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Nikanth K (nikanth) Description: If one tries to install a package say "bzflag-debugsource", then due to dependency "bzflag-debuginfo" also gets installed. But later the user may not remember it and will uninstall only "bzflag-debugsource". So installing and uninstalling, "bzflag-debugsource", does not leave the system in the same state as before. It would be nice if yast2/zypper can remember the automatic package selections and prompt user when the actual packages are being uninstalled and there are no other package that is still dependent on them. Atleast a way to know the list of packages installed due to dependencies and the no of packages still dependent on them would make it easier for the user. And this list should not include packages manually installed by the user. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305992

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[openFATE 307603] Migrate x86_32 architecture to i686
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Jul '11

21 Jul '11

Feature added by: Refilwe Seete (ReferenceSeete) Feature #307603, revision 1 Title: Migrate x86_32 architecture to i686 openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Refilwe Seete (referenceseete) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: openSUSE currently builds i586 binaries with a couple exceptions. As it currently stands openSUSE 11.1 permits a Pentium 1 but requires at least 256MB of RAM with 512MB recommended [1]. The likelihood of a person having a system with an original Pentium and 256MB (esp. 512MB) of RAM is quite low. Since the i686 architecture was introduced in 1995...2010 or 2011 is a suitable time to migrate the x86_32 target architecture without adversely affecting the majority of users. The Fedora Project is making this same transition for Fedora 12 [2]. Any growing pains they experience can be used as guidance for the transition in openSUSE 11.3 or 12.0. [1] http://www.novell.com/products/opensuse/sysreqs.html [2] https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/F12X86Support Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: By moving to i686, openSUSE should receive a slight performance increase while maintaining support for an incredibly broad range of x86 chips. Any boost is helpful on systems with less processing power, such as netbooks/nettops or older systems (Pentium 2, original Athlon etc.). Moving to i686 is a way to boost performance the performance of openSUSE at the margins without having to delve into experimental or otherwise under-tested methods. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307603

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[New: openFATE 308423] CA Management Proposal: change alternative name
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Feature added by: Michael Calmer (mcalmer) Feature #308423, revision 1 Title: CA Management Proposal: change alternative name openSUSE-11.3: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Michael Calmer (mcalmer) Description: Currently the CA Management proposal detects a lot of alternative names which are added to the server certificate. These autodetected values cannot be changed. You need to remove the certificate and crerate a new one using the ca-management module, if something is wrong or not wanted. It would be good to have the possibility to change them at this time. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308423

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[New: openFATE 308613] package Free Pascal
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Feature added by: serge muscat (serge-muscat) Feature #308613, revision 1 Title: package Free Pascal openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: serge muscat (serge-muscat) Description: I like the package that Free Pascal works correctly. For now it does not work. And this is the only language Pascal available at the moment with Suse. Serge M. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308613

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[New: openFATE 308530] Include cacti in 11.3x
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Feature added by: Glenn Doig (doiggl) Feature #308530, revision 1 Title: Include cacti in 11.3x Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Glenn Doig (doiggl) Description: Include cacti in 11.3x http://docs.cacti.net/ cacti rpm's available on http://software.opensuse.org/search About Info: Web Front-End to Monitor System Data via RRDtool Cacti is a complete front-end to RRDtool: it stores all necessary information for creating graphs and populates them with data from a MySQL database. The front-end is completely PHP driven. Along with being ableto maintain graphs, data sources, and round robin archives in a database, Cacti also handles data gathering. There exists an SNMP support for those accustomed to creating traffic graphs with MRTG as well. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308530

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[New: openFATE 308271] GDM Customizable
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Feature added by: Raul Libório (Rauhmaru) Feature #308271, revision 1 Title: GDM Customizable openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Raul Libório (rauhmaru) Description: I propose the return of GDM customizable, where you can do whatever it was before. change icons, background, change the position of the items ... If something I did not like the openSUSE was this change. In my opinion, this was a terrible decision by the developers. GDM was formerly one customizable tool, but, today, but today it is ugly and inflexible. You can not change their themes. There are millions of themes for GDM ... They were killed. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308271

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[New: openFATE 308254] radvd
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 19 Jul '11

19 Jul '11

Feature added by: Per Jessen (pjessen) Feature #308254, revision 1 Title: radvd Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Per Jessen (pjessen) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: IPv6 router advertisement daemon. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: The IPv6 router advertisement daemon is quite useful for automatic configuration of routes in an IPv6 network. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308254

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