December 2009 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[openFATE 306767] Yast2 package manager: add more filters
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Feature added by: Vincent Petry (PVince81) Feature #306767, revision 1 Title: Yast2 package manager: add more filters openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Vincent Petry (pvince81) Description: It would be nice to have the following additional filters, maybe in the "view" menu: 1) Only show the packages that have a major version update 2) Same as 1) with minor version 3) Only show packages that appeared since the last refresh (see https://features.opensuse.org/306766) 4) Only show packages which version has changed since the last refresh (see https://features.opensuse.org/306766) 5) Only show installed packages 6) Only show non-installed packages The filters should be toggles/checkboxes, so that it's possible to combine them. Such filters are already available in the smart package manager. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306767

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[openFATE 306520] Redesign "Format and Mount Dialog" in YaST Expert Partitioner
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Feature added by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) Feature #306520, revision 1 Title: Redesign "Format and Mount Dialog" in YaST Expert Partitioner openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) Description: The "Format and Mount Dialog" in the YaST Expert Partitioner has several technical mistakes and limitations. * The mount-by method is in the fstab options dialog. This is wrong since volumes are also addressed in crypttab when they are not mounted. The same applies to the "Do Not Mount at System Start-up" setting. So these settings cannot be modified for e.g. encrypted volumes that are not mounted. * The filesystem label is in the fstab options. Thus it is not possible to set a filesystem label when not mounting the filesystem. This field should be moved from the mount options to the filesystem options. * Some filesystem options, e.g. "Disable regular checks", cannot be changed without formatting the filesystem although the filesystem tools support this. There should be a differentiation between filesystem options that can only be set during formatting and those that can be changed afterwards. One trouble is that this differentiation depends on the filesystem used. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306520

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[openFATE 306437] yast2 disk: easy way to mount all ntfs partitions rw
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Feature added by: Stefan Behlert (sbehlert) Feature #306437, revision 1, last change by Title: yast2 disk: easy way to mount all ntfs partitions rw openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Jigish Gohil (cyberorg) Description: Taken from Bugzilla: Please provide a check box that says something like this: "Detect and mount all NTFS partitions Read-Write for all users" I do over 100 installations of openSUSE every month, all on PC that have windows installed, and manually changing it in /etc/fstab is bit tedious. Reproducible: Always Relations: - yast2 disk: easy way to mount all ntfs partitions rw (novell/bugzilla/id: 487126) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=487126 Discussion: #1: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) (2009-03-23 11:53:17) Stefan, please make a feature request if you want this. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306437

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[openFATE 306383] Browsing available repositories from YaST level
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Feature added by: Piotrek Juzwiak (BenderBendingRodriguez) Feature #306383, revision 1, last change by Title: Browsing available repositories from YaST level openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Piotrek Juzwiak (benderbendingrodriguez) Description: After test driving mandriva i found one idea there really great, you can browse repositories from the tool used for managing software. It would be great to have such thing in openSUSE (the community repositories isn't enough i think). So instead of browsing for repositories from web browser level we could browse it from YaST level (include something like novice and advanced level, the difference would be repositories shown for the end user). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306383

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[openFate 305716] [openSUSE 11.1] Disk partitioning under installation (Disk)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Feature added by: Matthias Eckermann (mge1512) Feature #305716, revision 1, last change by Title: [openSUSE 11.1] Disk partitioning under installation (Disk) openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Sebastian Furdal (resus) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: We all know, that openSUSE as a default wants use on its own entire disk. This is VERRY BAD setting. On this website exist a pool: http://suse.ehelp.pl/modules/xoopspoll/pollresults.php?poll_id=24 POLISH: Czy os11 powinien miec przy instalacji mozliwosc wyboru, na ktorej partycji zainstalować system? ENGLISH: Should os11 installation program have make a choice on what partition install the system? 94% users sad YES (tak) Try my proposal... "See the attachments" Relations: - [openSUSE 11.1] Disk partitioning under installation (Disk) (novell/bugzilla/id: 383886) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=383886 Discussion: #1: Sebastian Furdal (resus) (2008-04-25 12:36:23) Created an attachment (id=210574) Disk (GIMP) #2: Sebastian Furdal (resus) (2008-04-25 12:37:01) Created an attachment (id=210575) Button "create" #3: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) (2008-04-28 03:44:40) Something for PM to decide. #4: Stephan Kulow (coolo) (2008-04-28 04:10:30) Actually this fits the feedback I got during fosdem - the _HUGE_ majority of (power) users has to change the proposal. But the "Create" and "Edit" buttons are already more prominently as they were in previous releases. This was on the behalf of this feedback. #5: Sebastian Furdal (resus) (2008-04-28 07:47:26) Created an attachment (id=210885) Version 2 #6: Matthias Eckermann (mge1512) (2008-04-29 04:06:15) I do not completly understand the request, I fear:-( Is it (1) about leaving space for windows or other OSes? (2) or about _how_ the Linux partitioning should look like? (3) or about both? I personally have a rather "sophisticated" partitioning (people say: "crazy"), thus I am planning to propose a LVM based partitioning as one(!) option (and default for our Enterprise Server product) with roughly(!) this layout. /dev/sda1 /boot /dev/sda2 /swap /dev/sda3 # system VG / /usr /opt /var /dev/sda4 # data VG /tmp /home /srv This more or less resembles the defaults of Unix/BSD systems. As said: it is the "extended" variant of what I can imagine for systems, where Linux is allowed to control the whole harddisk. For systems with shared windows partitions the layout should be different. And suggestions? Comments? Ideas? Proposals? Thanks in advance - so long - MgE #8: Sebastian Furdal (resus) (2008-05-01 02:19:50) (1)(1)does the idea of „automatic partitioning” is to make monopoly in one OS on one computer? [sarcasm] (2)(2)Yes, its only a proposal, more details I can make in some free time. (3)(3)Yap (4)(4)but openSUSE is mostly installed by less advanced users, who mostly do not know anything about Servers (5)(5)Most people on the world have a Windows and they install GNU/Linux with curiosity, and GNU/Linux should not propose to delete their favorite system and all precious data that where collected for years. This is something that makes openSUSE behind almost all major GNU/Linux distributions. And even I do not use Windows, but GNU/Linux (doesn't matter if its not openSUSE/SUSE) but I want check this distro [...] (6)(6)Propose: 1. After detecting disks and partitions Yast2 should propose mount points for all existed partitions. 2. When it finds completely free partition (doesn't matter with what file system - sometimes users prepare before installation free partition under different OS for a new system) OR/AND unallocated space with more size than installation required it should mark it with a green color – that on this partition/space You can install openSUSE with options /boot, /swap, /, /usr, ... etc. 3. When it doesn't find good partition then it should ask “Create automatic disk partitioning?”. a) YES - Automatically create partition setup for home users (example only with “/” and “/home” and ”/boot” - boot is very important for grub, because for example when a user delete under windows Linux partition grub is still in the MBR but it cant find config files - “OH MY GOD, LOOK LINUX DESTROYED MY SYSTEM – I WILL NEVER USE LINIX AGAIN” and most people do not know anything about windows installation “fixmbr”) - ALL DATA WILL BE LOST [red color] - Automatically create partition setup for server - ALL DATA WILL BE LOST [red color] b) NO - Edit partition setup (all proposed mount points in step 1. should remain even without “/” but whit red warning “To install openSUSE You have to create partition with minimal size $MINIMAL_INSTALLATION_SIZE GB”). #9: Matthias Eckermann (mge1512) (2008-05-06 20:56:51) Hello and thanks for the answers. Please see my comments below.? (In reply to comment #8 from Sebastian Furdal) > > (1) about leaving space for windows or other OSes? > (1)(1)does the idea of „automatic partitioning” is to make monopoly in one > OS on one computer? [sarcasm] I agree: I have at least 3 openSUSE/SLES systems on my systems, and every fresh installation tries to kill my "vg_data". This is just annoying and will be fixed. > > (2) or about _how_ the Linux partitioning should look like? > (2)(2)Yes, its only a proposal, more details I can make in some free time. I also have some ideas there, ... > (4)(4)but openSUSE is mostly installed by less advanced users, > who mostly do not know anything about Servers Well, that does not necessarily be true according to other requests I see:-) But I agree that the "less advanced users" have to be covered in the most save way. > [...] This is something that makes openSUSE behind almost all major > GNU/Linux distributions. [...] Well, you might simply avoid those type of comments, please, as it weakens your very valid points above and below ( because people might become angry ). > (6)(6)Propose: > [...] Instead of your proposal let me post a proposal I wrote roughly 2 years ago here in bugzilla (closed bug); in meta-programming-language (and covering also datacenter use e.g. of SLES product): if( SAN-storage-found ) { expert-partitioning(); } else if( num-of-harddisks > 1 ) { expert-partitioning(); } else if( only-one-windows-partition_on( first_harddisk ) ) { # case 2 below partitioning-with-shrink( first_harddisk ) | expert-partitioning(); } else if( some-partitions-but-free-space_on( first_harddisk ) ){ # case 3 below partitioning-without-shrink-or-delete_on (first_harddisk ) | expert-partitioning(); } else if( some-partitions-but-no-free-space_on( first_harddisk ) ) { expert-partitioning(); } else if( multiple-existing-OSes-found ){ expert-partitioning(); } else { # empty harddisk, case 1 below default-partitioning(); } I would like to see that a little bit less complex, but I hope it could be a good start; I also hope we can agree that there are only three relatively "safe" & easy cases: 1. one empty harddisk 2. one harddisk full with another OS (most probably windows) 3. (at least) one (bigger) empty primary partition on first harddisk Everything else needs "knowledge" by the person in front of the computer, i.e. an "expert partitioner" YaST module to support this person, HTH - MgE #10: Matthias Eckermann (mge1512) (2008-05-26 06:19:13) What do you think? #11: Sebastian Furdal (resus) (2008-07-20 03:40:24) I think advanced partitioning should be rewritten, sometimes it is to complicated ... Your proposal is good but openSUSE should automatically propose simple and automatic solutions ... such as: - propose partitions where oS could be installed - propose automatic mount points - propose some profiles of partitioning etc. What You think? #12: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) (2008-10-24 05:24:05) Information was provided. #13: Matthias Eckermann (mge1512) (2009-01-21 11:57:03) Moved to openFATE from bugzilla. Let's proceed for openSUSE 11.2 based on what we have in openSUSE 11.1. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305716

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[openFATE 308186] ruby1.9
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 23 Jan '13

23 Jan '13

Feature added by: Dirk Herzhauser (dherzhau2) Feature #308186, revision 1 Title: ruby1.9 Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Dirk Herzhauser (dherzhau2) Description: I would be nice to have a ruby1.9 package as well as wn precompile wxruby gem -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308186

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[New: openFATE 308377] Importing MS Windows user's settings, data as Ubuntu and Mandriva do
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Jan '13

21 Jan '13

Feature added by: Mindaugas Baranauskas (embar-) Feature #308377, revision 1 Title: Importing MS Windows user's settings, data as Ubuntu and Mandriva do openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Mindaugas Baranauskas (embar-) Description: Importing MS Windows user's settings, data as Ubuntu and Mandriva do. This may be useful for new users in Linux – it would help to fell less stress. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308377

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[openFate 305472] Support transaction triggers for rpms
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Jan '13

21 Jan '13

Feature added by: Vincent Untz <vuntz(a)novell.com> Feature #305472, revision 1, last change by Title: Support transaction triggers for rpms openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Vincent Untz <vuntz(a)novell.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: It's important to be able to run once after all packages have been installed a command (instead of running the command after each of x packages getting installed, which would make the process much slower). That's basically a post-transaction trigger. For background, see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=365649 and especially comment #14 from Stanislav. (note that this is work that should be done in upstream rpm, not as patches) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305472

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[New: openFATE 308243] Add Koha to opensuse Education Distro please. open-source ILS. http://koha.org/
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 28 Dec '12

28 Dec '12

Feature added by: Glenn Doig (doiggl) Feature #308243, revision 1 Title: Add Koha to opensuse Education Distro please. open-source ILS. http://koha.org/ Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Glenn Doig (doiggl) Description: Add Koha to opensuse Education Distro please. Koha is a full-featured open-source ILS. http://koha.org/ Thanks -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308243

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[New: openFATE 308497] Update to GRUB v2
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Dec '12

08 Dec '12

Feature added by: Jeff Mahoney (jeff_mahoney) Feature #308497, revision 1 Title: Update to GRUB v2 openSUSE-11.3: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jeff Mahoney (jeff_mahoney) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Every single bug or feature that anyone has developed for GRUB 0.97 has been rejected by the upstream project in favor of using GRUB 2. There has been resisitence in the distribution community to switching boot loaders, but this stalemate isn't going to go away. The code itself isn't well written or well maintained. Adding a new feature involves jumping through a lot of hoops that may or may not work even if you manage to work around all the runtime limitations. For example, a fs implementation has a static buffer it can use for memory management. It's only 32k. For complex file systems, or even a simple journaled file system, we run into problems (like the reiserfs taking forever to load bug) because we don't have enough memory to do block mapping for the journal so it needs to scan it for every metadata read. (Yeah, really.) GRUB v2 has a cleaner design, is modular, and it has support for multiple architectures including i386, x86-64, and powerpc. Support for ia64 is said to be forthcoming. EFI support is already there. More importantly, it supports far more file systems and has native MD RAID and LVM support. Adding support for a new file system is much easier, cleaner, and has fewer limitations than with GRUB 0.97. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: * Supportability - upstream bug fixes and development community * Features - better fs support, native RAID and LVM support -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308497

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