October 2010 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[openFATE 307745] Let the admin ("root") download and install untrusted third-party RPMs from known URLs guided via YaST
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 24 Oct '13

24 Oct '13

Feature added by: Johannes Meixner (jsmeix) Feature #307745, revision 1 Title: Let the admin ("root") download and install untrusted third-party RPMs from known URLs guided via YaST openSUSE-11.3: New Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Johannes Meixner (jsmeix) Description: I would like to have it evaluated whether or not it is allowed to implement a dialog in YaST which lets the system admin (i.e. "root") download and install untrusted third-party RPMs from known URLs. In any case "root" can download and install any software manually. This reques is about to provide a guided and restricted way for some particular cases. My current use-case are the printer driver packages which are available via OpenPrinting at the Linux Foundation: http://www.openprinting.org/driver_list.cgi where LSB compliant driver RPM packages are available. >From my point of view those packages are on the one hand untrusted third-party RPMs but on the other hand their download location is "well known" which makes those packages "well known third-party packages". I assume that from a strict security point of view any kind of third party software is "strictly forbidden" but I like to propose a more useful way here: The system adminj (i.e. "root") can in any case download and install whatever software he likes. This man invalidate e.g. whatever support contract but it is up to the admin to know what he does. Currently we have no idea at all which third-party printer drivers an admin may download an install on his own. When he has a printer for which there is no driver provided by us, the admin may download whatever driver software from any totally unknown location and install it with any unknown consequences. (E.g. some time ago there was a printer driver from a printer manufacturer where its installation script set setuid root bits on various user application programs to mak it "just work".) Currently we even do not tell the admin about the well known printer driver locations at OpenPrinting. >From my point of view it would be a big improvement when I could implement a dialog in the YaST printer module which shows a very explicite text that this is about untrusted unsupported third-party software. This text would require explicite confirmation by the admin. Then it downloads RPMs only from hardcoded URLs from OpenPrinting and inspects the downloaded RPM whether it overwrites already installed files on the system and if not, it installs it without running any RPM scripts because normal printer drivers do not need to run RPM scripts during installation. If the above conditions are not fulfilled it shows a very explicite warning text and does not install anything. In contrast to now where we leave the admin totally on its own how to get a driver for a printer for which we do not provide a driver, the above described guided and restricted way to download and install drivers via YaST would help both the admin and us because in many cases we could make sure this way that we know at least which third-party driver the admin has installed. Please do not confuse this request with the different request how a third-party (e.g. OpenPrinting or a printer manufacturer) could provide software packages in a way which is in full compliance to our package installation and management tools (i.e. via a repository which provides also updates and so on). This request is meant for third-party RPMs "as is" where the vendor/provider simply does not want (because of whatever reason which is beyond our control) to provide his RPMs in compliance to our package installation and management tools. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307745

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[New: openFATE 310455] list packages that trigger build
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Oct '13

08 Oct '13

Feature added by: William Brenneman (eocrates) Feature #310455, revision 1 Title: list packages that trigger build Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: William Brenneman (eocrates) Description: I have packages that use the openSUSE_Factory repo, and periodically a required package will be updated in the repository that triggers my packages to be rebuilt. Suggection: list what package (and version # => version #) in Commit History of my package that triggered my package to rebuild. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310455

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[New: openFATE 309679] YaSTroid
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 Oct '13

04 Oct '13

Feature added by: Jared Allen (jpallen) Feature #309679, revision 1 Title: YaSTroid Requested by: Jared Allen (jpallen) Description: YaSTroid - An Android phone application to manage your SLES server using the WebYaST back-end. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309679

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[New: openFATE 309768] Blobec: Git with GPG on FTP
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 Oct '13

04 Oct '13

Feature added by: Martin Vidner (mvidner) Feature #309768, revision 1 Title: Blobec: Git with GPG on FTP Requested by: Martin Vidner (mvidner) Description: Blobec is a tool to store my private information (diary, calendar) on the Net to increase its availability and redundance. * To preserve privacy it needs to be encrypted → GPG. * I want it to be versioned, with easy merging of diverged copies → Git. * The publishing part works with what my current ISP provides → FTP (with SSL). I am implementing it in Ruby, with cURL. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309768

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[New: openFATE 308958] Reduce size of the Minimal Install
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 22 Sep '13

22 Sep '13

Feature added by: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) Feature #308958, revision 1 Title: Reduce size of the Minimal Install openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jan Engelhardt (jengelh) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: IMHO, the text-mode minimal install without X and anything still comes with "too many" packages. I use the minimal selection whenever I need to set up a new, clean, system, as installing onto a Minimal is faster than cherry-picking every single package for deletion from a Medium or Maximum selection. This includes, but is not limited to: * documentation to magic things happening in the background: PolicyKit-doc, readline-doc * other documentation that I've probably read already; bash-doc, perl-doc * archaic systems: yp-tools ypbind yast2-nis-client * packages serving no purpose: perl-Business-ISBN (heck, not even yast needs that), perl-GD * things that make my command line slow: command-not-found scout * it so happens that eventually I can throw out the entire python stack, and the remaining Xorg libs * printing, sound, bootsplash I have here a dump file between the initial minimal install and a tailored system - some things have been removed that I would leave on the minimal install list however (e.g. yast2-sudo). So the raw contents of the diff file is [mh, FATE has no attachments - see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=577791 ] Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Everytime a new system is bootstrapped, I have to (="want to") remove these first because they will never be needed -- if they will, I can reinstall them later, or pick a larger "non-minimal" text mode from yast. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308958

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[openFATE 306974] Additional columns in software management
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 03 Sep '13

03 Sep '13

Feature added by: Todd R (TheBlackCat) Feature #306974, revision 1 Title: Additional columns in software management openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Todd R (theblackcat) Description: It would be nice if there were a few additional columns in the software management interface. One specific column I am interested in would be an architecture column, to show you the architecture of an installed package or the architecture the package would have if you were to install it. The other column would show the repository of the package, either the repository of an installed package or the repository the package would be downloaded from if you were to install it. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306974

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[New: openFATE 310410] Evaluate switching to libjpeg-turbo
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Aug '13

26 Aug '13

Feature added by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Feature #310410, revision 1 Title: Evaluate switching to libjpeg-turbo openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Vincent Untz (vuntz) Description: Quoting http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/libjpeg-turbo: ==== libjpeg-turbo is fork of the original libjpeg project. It contains numerous performance related enhancements and is at least twice faster in JPEG compression/decompression than original libjpeg on platforms with MMX/SSE instruction set. It has same API/ABI like original libjpeg and also runs on non-SSE platforms where is around 25% faster. http://sourceforge.net/projects/libjpeg-turbo ==== We should evaluate this library and see if we can replace libjpeg with it for improved performance. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310410

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[openFATE 306598] Sync Tomboy/Tasque with Evernote
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 13 Aug '13

13 Aug '13

Feature added by: Joe Brockmeier (jbrockmeier) Feature #306598, revision 1 Title: Sync Tomboy/Tasque with Evernote Requested by: Joe Brockmeier (jbrockmeier) Description: Evernote is a pretty cool service, but it doesn't have a Linux client. I'd like to be able to sync my Tomboy notes with Evernote and retrieve them from another machine. Same with Tasque -- I'd like to be able to save a to-do list to Evernote from tasque so I could use a mobile Evernote client to look up my to-dos. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306598

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[openFATE 306588] improve on software search
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 13 Aug '13

13 Aug '13

Feature added by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Feature #306588, revision 1 Title: improve on software search Requested by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Description: software.o.o/search is always a case insensitive substring search. I'd like to hack into the system and add - optional case sensitivity,- exact package name search- regexp search This is an opportunity to learn ruby on rails for me. Any takers, who want to coach me, especially with Rails welcome. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306588

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[openFate 305705] Types of installation
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 13 Aug '13

13 Aug '13

Feature added by: Agustin Chavarria (dj_ubun_1) Feature #305705, revision 1, last change by Title: Types of installation openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Agustin Chavarria (dj_ubun_1) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: would be good, that at the time of installation opensuse, ask what you want to install, like a template, without having to go to edit to add software. An example for that will be: Multimedia install Full install server install developer install -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305705

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