September 2011 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 309996] zypper download speed up
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 27 Jun '17

27 Jun '17

Feature added by: Robert Xu (bravoall1552) Feature #309996, revision 1 Title: zypper download speed up openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Robert Xu (bravoall1552) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I think we should have zypper use aria2 or some similar program to allow 2 consecutive downloads at once. While there is an option in zypp.conf, it does not work naturally with zypper and GUI tools. Having 2 downloads at once can speed up installation rapidly. For those who aren't in the DownloadInAdvance mode, maybe they can: * download 2 at once, add them to install queue, and have the install queue process as soon as the first download is done. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Because Zypper is a little slow, and that's preventing a lot of packages from being installed in time. We should be able to have zypper as speedy as possible. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309996

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[New: openFATE 311366] Integrate biosdevname into the openSUSE installer
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Narendra K - (narendra_k) Feature #311366, revision 1 Title: Integrate biosdevname into the openSUSE installer openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Narendra K - (narendra_k) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Description: On a Dell PowerEdge server with multiple add-in cards, the naming of the network interfaces is non-deterministic. This results in 'eth0' not mapping to "Embedded NIC 1" as labeled on the server chassis. This issue is seen on Dell PowerEdge 10G above. This feature addresses this issue by renaming network interfaces based on their location on the system motherboard at install time. The naming policy it suggests are as follows:    <![endif]--> Embedded devices: em<port> Add-in PCI cards: pci<slot>p<port>_<virtual function instance> On a PER710 with 4 Lan-On-Motherboard interfaces and a dual port add-in network controller, the interface names would look like - Onboard interfaces - em1 em2 em3 em4 Interface names for the dual port add-in controller on pci slot 2 pci2p0, pci2p1 If the second port has virtual functions enabled -pci2p1_0, pci2p1_2 ... etc Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: This feature request addresses the non-determinism in network interface naming and allows referring to the interfaces based on their physical location on the motherboard. This would help in easy administration and eliminates the need for embedded state such as HWADDR into the configuration files and names will be consistent across reboots. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311366

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[New: openFATE 311364] Include biosdevname udev helper utility into openSUSE
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Narendra K - (narendra_k) Feature #311364, revision 1 Title: Include biosdevname udev helper utility into openSUSE openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Narendra K - (narendra_k) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: This feature is needed to implement the "Consistent Network device naming-Name network interfaces to match chassis labels" (https://features.opensuse.org/310896) Biosdevname is a udev helper which can suggest chassis based names to network interfaces. Please find latest version of biosdevname here - http://linux.dell.com/files/biosdevname/permalink/biosdevname-0.3.7.tar.gz http://linux.dell.com/files/biosdevname/permalink/biosdevname-0.3.7.tar.gz.… git://linux.dell.com/biosdevname.git -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311364

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[New: openFATE 310713] put /etc under (git) version control
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Christoph Obexer (cobexer) Feature #310713, revision 1 Title: put /etc under (git) version control openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Christoph Obexer (cobexer) Description: put /etc under (git) version control to track changes made to the configuration, merge new configuration options coming from package updates / security fixes an handle the case where RPM decides to create a .rpmsave - where a administrator would need to migrate all changes from the old version to the new one in order to not end up with an unusable system upon reboot. Integration in YaST would be very cool, you could have a look at what an update changed in your system, and YaST could force you to migrate changes to configuration files that are no longer in effect. there are a fewsilly things in /etc (CUPS, alsa, ld.so.cache, and the bootsplash images i recall) that cause a lot of "fake" changes, but they would be easy to "fix". checking differences in configurations between multiple systems(to diagnose problems...) would be easy too, simply clone them and diff them, very efficient ;) . making backups of the system configuration would be easy too (simply back up /etc/.git and restoring would be non destructive in that you could check what changes will be restored) (subversion would not work well, for example because of gconf IIRC) Use Case: there was a security update once concerning session entropy in PHP, since the php.ini has been modified on the system in question the update process created a .rpmnew file, a file i would have never found it if I had not put /etc under git version control. With git however it was easy to see the file, I moved it over the php.ini and had a look at the changes, merged them in and committed the changes. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310713

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[New: openFATE 308465] Filter for Fold View Widget & Dolphin
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: John Moore (Johnfm3) Feature #308465, revision 1 Title: Filter for Fold View Widget & Dolphin openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: John Moore (johnfm3) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The ability for a user to filter for files that the user or a group has permissions too. Perferably the group that the user is a member of. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: In my example, I have 7 users that are joined to 4 groups (stored in LDAP) kids, preteens, teens, parents. On a NFS share, I have 105 movies, but 15 movies the members of the kids group can watch. Parents can watch all 105 movies. Its hard for members of the kids and preteen groups to quickly pick out which movie they can watch when there is 105 videos to browse thru. This gets worst when you add a Large Music collection of over 20,000. Move this to a small business enviorment, and you have a large public share that only has a small percentage of files that pertain to you. In the ideal world, the Administrator would have different shares for different groups, but in the work place things grow and dont get properly managed and relocated. When things do get move, users get pissed when things arent where they were. So typicly public shares get left alone and keep growing. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308465

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[New: openFATE 311033] GPS devices
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Toran Korshnah (ToranK) Feature #311033, revision 1 Title: GPS devices openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Toran Korshnah (torank) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: It woul be nice to update, control and use my TomTom without the need for a Winbox. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311033

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[New: openFATE 311257] fdutils
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Christopher Yeleighton (yecril71pl) Feature #311257, revision 1 Title: fdutils openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Christopher Yeleighton (yecril71pl) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The fdutils package contains utilities for configuring and debugging the Linux floppy driver, for formatting extra capacity disks (up to 1992K on a high density disk), and for sending raw commands to the floppy controller. Use Case: fdutils contain fdmount to automatically mount/unmount disks when they are inserted/removed Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: We want to provide the computer operator the possibility to easily exchange information using floppy disks. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311257

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[New: openFATE 310982] Please add Lightspark as a standard avant-garde/forefront browser flash player
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Carlo Strata (carlo_strata) Feature #310982, revision 1 Title: Please add Lightspark as a standard avant-garde/forefront browser flash player Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Carlo Strata (carlo_strata) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I think Lightspark https://launchpad.net/lightspark is an avant-garde/forefront browser flash player with modern hardware support design and written from scratch. We could find it only on Packman repository, but both gnash and swfdec are in standard OpenSuSE repository (swfdec in Packman one too and in a more recent version). Are there too some language (flash, swf files) legal troubles? Carlo Use Case: Browser safer and efficiently with this plugin. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: If we could live free, but with a modern design plugin it's better. I'm tired to live with my CPU at least at 45% load with 64 bit flash player "Square" p3: http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10_square.html -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310982

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[New: openFATE 312784] Replace Amarok with Clementine
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Roger Luedecke (Shadowolf7) Feature #312784, revision 1 Title: Replace Amarok with Clementine openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Roger Luedecke (shadowolf7) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Clementine is a KDE music player based of the old 3.x Amarok. Clementine boasts a more intuitive interface, that is easier to use on small displays. It also includes a robust visualizer implementation for those of us who enjoy them. The ease of use, superior performance and stability, and the stronger feature set make Clementine a clear choice to replace the buggy and unstable Amarok. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Amarok is difficult for new users coming from Windows of Gnome. Also, no other player has robust visualization like Clementine. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312784

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[New: openFATE 309697] drop radeonhd in favor of radeon driver
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Jun '17

26 Jun '17

Feature added by: Thiago Sayao (sayao) Feature #309697, revision 1 Title: drop radeonhd in favor of radeon driver openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Thiago Sayao (sayao) Description: I appreciate the work done with the radeonhd driver, but currently the radeon driver works better for me (radeon HD2600 PRO cad). Benefits of the radeon driver (for my card, don't know about others): - KMS (would look nicer if opensuse uses plymouth); - Better 3D support; - Faster video; - HDTV support with sound (has a bug that sound only outputs on one connector, but works) Compiz works nicely :) With the radeonhd driver, video is very slow, no KMS, no 3D, Compiz does not work, wrong resolution is detected. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309697

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