July 2011 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 312649] Automatically add keys to the ssh-agent at X11 login
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 27 Jul '11

27 Jul '11

Feature added by: Torsten Foertsch (tfoertsch) Feature #312649, revision 1 Title: Automatically add keys to the ssh-agent at X11 login openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Torsten Foertsch (tfoertsch) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I'd like to have a simple way to have the ssh-agent load a number of keys automatically when I log in to the system. The simplest way in my opinion would be a directory, say ~/.ssh/ssh-add/, where the user can copy all the keys he wants to add. Currently ssh-agent is already started when the user logs in using X11 by /etc/X11/xdm/sys.xsession. /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc which runs a bit later also executes scripts in /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/. To me this seems the perfect place to add a small script containing the following lines: =================================================== #!/bin/bash if test -S "$SSH_AUTH_SOCK" -a \ -x "$SSH_ASKPASS" -a \ -d ~/.ssh/ssh-add; then ssh-add ~/.ssh/ssh-add/* < /dev/null fi =================================================== In fact, I use this script for a few years now. And I am sick of adding it to /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/ after each distribution update. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312649

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[New: openFATE 308936] Install defaults to Allow_Kernel_Updates=NO
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Feature added by: Wilson Phillips (Wilson_Phillips) Feature #308936, revision 1 Title: Install defaults to Allow_Kernel_Updates=NO openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Wilson Phillips (wilson_phillips) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Make the install default with kernel updates off. Create a config file with a flag that can be turned on or off, that must be edited. Inside the file could be all the information needed for a newbie to do his/her own kernel update without hosing thier system. Instructions, links to forums, links to video card drivers, etc. Advanced users could easily edit the file and turn on kernel updates after the install, but new users would not be blind-sided with a kernel update that leaves them in panic mode staring at the command prompt login, and wondering why they had a desktop one minute and a reboot leaves their system broken. If a new user needs a kernel update, they can do a little research and find how to edit the file, by the time they do it, they should have all the information they need to make an informed decision and be prepared with the tools they need to bring their system back online properly. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: We have lost too many new openSUSE users over the years because they did their updates and did not know that a kernel update would break their modules. Nothing causes more panic for a newbie than a reboot that leaves them stuck at the command line interface and wondering why their system is broken. Too many just do a format and reinstall of Windows and the last we hear of them is when they post on the forums that SUSE sucks. For us old techs, this is a small problem and we know how to fix it, but for the newbie, this is a deal breaker. We must change our way of looking at these small problems and how they affect the new inexperienced users. We can not overlook these issues. We have to make them a priority. How many new users could we keep, if they never had this problem? Food for thought. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308936

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[New: openFATE 311030] Add the new ZFS file system Kernel module
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Feature added by: Di Pe (dipe) Feature #311030, revision 1 Title: Add the new ZFS file system Kernel module openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Di Pe (dipe) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: This is very cool, ZFS will be available on Linux in a few days and it will have decent performance. http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=article&item=linux_kqzfs_benchmarks&n… http://zfs.kqinfotech.com/ Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: * ZFS is an Enterprise level file system that many poeple trust with large amounts of data (>100TB) * ZFS is much easier to use than the combination of linux RAID, LVM and EXT4 * ZFS supports checksumming which prevents bit rot. * ZFS supports compression and deduplication * strong support for ZFS will drive new users to openSUSE * Hardware RAID Controllers are adding a layer between OS and hard drives that can be hard to monitor with linux tools. * BTRFS is not yet ready today (it does not support RAID5 and is lacking many other features) * Ubuntu server will have it. Why would you not want ZFS? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311030

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[New: openFATE 312523] libraw1394
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Feature added by: Steffen Klein (sklein7) Feature #312523, revision 1 Title: libraw1394 openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Steffen Klein (sklein7) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Hi Please update to the current libraw1394 2.0.7: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/ieee1394/ The latest version to be found in opensuse repositories is 2.0.5, which for example isn't sufficient for use with some Firewire Audio-Hardware in combination with latest kernels (aka juju-stack only). Regards, Steffen -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312523

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[New: openFATE 312524] libraw1394
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Feature added by: Steffen Klein (sklein7) Feature #312524, revision 1 Title: libraw1394 openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Steffen Klein (sklein7) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Hi Please update to the current libraw1394 2.0.7: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/libs/ieee1394/ The latest version to be found in opensuse repositories is 2.0.5, which for example isn't sufficient for use with some Firewire Audio-Hardware in combination with latest kernels (aka juju-stack only). Regards, Steffen -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312524

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[New: openFATE 311362] Remove pulseaudio from default installation again
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Feature added by: Dean Hilkewich (deanjo13) Feature #311362, revision 1 Title: Remove pulseaudio from default installation again openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Dean Hilkewich (deanjo13) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Since having pulseaudio again activated as default not one of the systems that I have installed 11.4 had a working audio system. Remove pulse from the default installation again as it does nothing but break working installations. This has been verified across multiple sound cards and setups. Don't get rid of the pulseaudio packages, just take them out of the default installation pattern. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311362

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[New: openFATE 312473] Zypper / Package maneger: download repo data in paralel
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Feature added by: Mindaugas Baranauskas (embar-) Feature #312473, revision 1 Title: Zypper / Package maneger: download repo data in paralel openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Mindaugas Baranauskas (embar-) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Now Packcage manager starts slowly if I have many repos, because it downloads many small files one by one with same delay. So downloading repositories data in paralel will speed up starting of package manager. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312473

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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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[New: openFATE 311057] Kernel: Update README.SUSE
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jul '11

26 Jul '11

Feature added by: Martin Konold (konold) Feature #311057, revision 1 Title: Kernel: Update README.SUSE openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Martin Konold (konold) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: README.SUSE lacks documentation for stuff like patches.addon and mkspec as also hinted at http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-kernel/2010-07/msg00014.html Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: People shall be able to merge local changes easily with OpenSUSE kernels without the need to modify OpenSUSE kernel spec files etc. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311057

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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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