December 2010 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 310806] Allow Submit requests from foreign projects
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #310806, revision 1 Title: Allow Submit requests from foreign projects Buildservice: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Description: Submit requests from packages where no maintainer state exists are not allowed. This is because only the maintainer knows about the state of the source in the package. We want to change this, to allow to create submit requests by everybody, but ask the maintainer via a review request to approve it. This means we need an extension for the review element to be able to specify a project and package as reviewer. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310806

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[New: openFATE 310134] Support product signing with non local builds
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #310134, revision 1 Title: Support product signing with non local builds Buildservice: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Important Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Developer: (Novell) Description: Signing of product images is only working when a local worker is used. The feature is to support this also on usual workers. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310134

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[New: openFATE 310974] Prevent work on package if there are submissions
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 31 Jan '11

31 Jan '11

Feature added by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Feature #310974, revision 1 Title: Prevent work on package if there are submissions Buildservice: New Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Product Manager: (Novell) Project Manager: (Novell) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Currently a packager that works on a package might change it and a person that branched the package previously has already some changes done and those might break with the changes in the project. We need better support for these situations. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310974

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[New: openFATE 309454] I want ice-cream for hackweek
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 Jan '11

25 Jan '11

Feature added by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Feature #309454, revision 1 Title: I want ice-cream for hackweek Requested by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: There should be a good supply of delicious ice-cream duing the Hackweek to lure people away from their offices, towards the kitchen area. Test Case: Bring ice-cream to my office, I'll do the tests myself. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: In general, food supply is most important, this creates most effective breaks and allows for communications. (Please don't speak with your mouth full, though). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309454

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[New: openFATE 309238] Easy to use bootable USB key creator
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 24 Jan '11

24 Jan '11

Feature added by: Brandon Philips (philipsb) Feature #309238, revision 1 Title: Easy to use bootable USB key creator openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Brandon Philips (philipsb) Description: Ubuntu has a great usb-creator tool that can be used to easily create bootable install media and even reserve a second partition to use for a /home/ in a LiveUSB environment: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Live_USB_creator This tool would be a great addition to openSUSE and could replace our rather dangerous recommendation to use dd: http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309238

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[New: openFATE 308385] Easier to install from an USB-flash memory
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 24 Jan '11

24 Jan '11

Feature added by: Magnus Gustavsson (magnusgus) Feature #308385, revision 1 Title: Easier to install from an USB-flash memory openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Magnus Gustavsson (magnusgus) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I want to start with saying my appreciation of all SUSE developers, I really think SUSE is the number one choise, bot for beginners and more advanced users. 11.2 is really a big step forward, thanks a lot to all involved!!! However...following the discussion here; http://forums.opensuse.org/install-boot-login/426568-simplest-way-install-1… , I make here a proposal for improvement when it comes to the installation from other media than the commonly used DVD-disc, that almost all computer users are able to understand and use. The growing numbers of netbooks, without CD ocr DVD-rom built in is pushing the fact that OS:s today lack one important feature, namely an easy installation from USB- or flashmemories of all kinds. It is maybe wise to try to imagine where alternative OS like Linux would stand today, if there was not the possibility to download an .iso, burn it on a blank DVD-disc and then simply put it into a computer before boot. With this in mind, think of how many who really would consider testing linux or SUSE in particular on their netbook as a fist try (maybe because they imagine better performance than with the overloaded MS mostly shipped with the netbook, but are incapable of making the installation due to thee simple fact that their notebook lacks a DVD-drive. Beeing a linuxuser with more than a year of experience (and also a user who have made a USB installation once in fact), I still find the many and difficult stages in making a working, bootable USBstick wich will install a new version of SUSE so hard, that I really can understand why so many still are considering a Vista or a Mac in front of a linux OS. It is too difficult!! Basically I think a installation via USB-stick should not be more complicated than something like this: 1: to to format their stick to FAT16 (if it now really is needed), with any availible program in windows or Linux 2. Make this stick bootable with same formatting program 3. Download and copy the DVD.iso to the stick (or somewhere on the computers harddrive, but this is over manys limit) 4. Download and copy a special "SUSE-USB-stick"-file to the stick, that makes the necessary extra things U described in Ur posts such as extracting installer etc 5. Make the intended computer able to boot from a USB-stick 6. Put the USB-stick in the intended computer and reboot so the prepartion with DD etc is made, possible make the computer reboot again, and finally make the installation to start. These 6 steps would be easy enough to follow for a newbie, as well as for me. And it would work regardless of network or internetconnection for the computer. It would also take full advantage of the torrent technology since all can be downloaded the quickest way via torrent. And it will for sure make at least SUSE a much more attractive option for people searching alternatives to the mainstream OS they have been feed up with since small school. I made this request under SUSE 11.3 but maybe there is a better place for it, please feel free to move this in this case. Appreciate all comments about this. BR/ Magnus Gustavsson Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: To improve/ make easier installation process for computers without DVD-drive. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308385

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[New: openFATE 308354] Live USB Stick Creator
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 24 Jan '11

24 Jan '11

Feature added by: H. Hansen (cyberbeat) Feature #308354, revision 1 Title: Live USB Stick Creator openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: H. Hansen (cyberbeat) Description: It would be nice to have something like https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/ It is a nice GUI (linux/windows, created such a stick from opensuse) which installs a LIVE ISO on a USB stick. Perhaps it can be adapted to opensuse-media. It is written in python. It uses a existing partition (can be fat for example), and a casper-rw file for persistent storage (choosable size), so does not need extra partitions. - I did not succeed with the official tutorial at http://en.opensuse.org/Live_USB_stick to create a live stick, it describes also another method (hybrid with second partition for persistent data, which failed for me). Also with this solution it is not possible to use (and keep) an existing fat partition. - Today more and more laptops and netbooks without optical drives are spread. There is really needed an easy graphical tool now! Usecase: I am new to linux, want to carry my custom system around with me, and want that installation on usb just works Usecase: I buy a netbook and want to install opensuse on it without having to use console or software foreign software - I don't want different utilities on windows/linux to create usb live stick -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308354

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[openFATE 306756] non persitent install mode for flash disks
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 24 Jan '11

24 Jan '11

Feature added by: Bruno Gerz (bogz) Feature #306756, revision 1 Title: non persitent install mode for flash disks Hackweek IV: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Bruno Gerz (bogz) Description: It would be nice to get a install or move mode for flash disks. For example a non persitent live mode and may be options for storing system settings and more, a option to move a normal harddisk installation into a non persitent installation on usb stick, formating options for 'recommended' flash file systems Such a yast module would save much time and could also provide newcommers :-) See http://en.opensuse.org/How-To_Make_the_root_filesystem_read-only -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306756

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[openFATE 306985] Install necessary codecs on the first run/need
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 23 Jan '11

23 Jan '11

Feature added by: Piotrek Juzwiak (BenderBendingRodriguez) Feature #306985, revision 1 Title: Install necessary codecs on the first run/need openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Piotrek Juzwiak (benderbendingrodriguez) Description: I would very much like to see the system propose to install multimedia codecs. It could be similar to pullin-flash-player or pullin-msfonts. Not every new user knows that they need to add packman repo so it would be a great idea to run a script at the start that would ask if that person needs: a) to play DVD's b) to play mp3's c) to play any other kind of media like Xvid, DivX etc. The script would then add temporarily vlc repo to download libdvdcss in case a is ticked and add Packman repo in any other cases. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306985

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[New: openFATE 309632] HA/Storage Server/Appliance
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 21 Jan '11

21 Jan '11

Feature added by: Ruediger Oertel (oertel) Feature #309632, revision 1 Title: HA/Storage Server/Appliance Requested by: Ruediger Oertel (oertel) Description: let's try to evaluate what it takes to create something like falconstor (RH-based) or datastor (windows-based) on a openSUSE or SLE base, basic ideas: - SLE11(SP1?) plus HA addon [HA in factory is way outdated] - failover between at least two nodes - scsi/fc target using scst - backend any array with fc and/or scsi - easy config for clients to present luns to use [any gui tool or web-frontend reusable ?] - nfs server with HA [needs to be tested with various clients back at least till sles9, several archs] - anything like netapps WAFL (snapshots presented inside filesystem) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309632

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