February 2012 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 313164] Include grsync into the distribution
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 11 Feb '12

11 Feb '12

Feature added by: Petr Uzel (puzel) Feature #313164, revision 1 Title: Include grsync into the distribution openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Petr Uzel (puzel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Grsync is a rsync GUI which makes use of the GTK libraries and is released under the GPL license. It can be effectively used to synchronize local directories and it supports remote targets as well. Sample uses of grsync include: synchronize a music collection with removable devices, backup personal files to a networked drive, replication of a partition to another one, mirroring of files, etc. It has been requested on the opensuse mailinglist that grsync is included in the distribution. For now, grsync is maintained in the buildservice, in 'network' project. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313164

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[openFATE 306367] Boot fast (not just faster)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Feature added by: Stephan Kulow (coolo) Feature #306367, revision 1, last change by Title: Boot fast (not just faster) openSUSE-11.2: Evaluation Priority Requester: Mandatory Projectmanager: Important Requested by: Stephan Kulow (coolo) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Booting fast Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Everyone loves fast boot. Other distributions claim to maintain the crown. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306367

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[New: openFATE 310327] use systemd session manager instead SysVinit/upstart
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Feature added by: Vicenç Juan Tomàs Monserrat (vtomasr5) Feature #310327, revision 1 Title: use systemd session manager instead SysVinit/upstart openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Vicenç Juan Tomàs Monserrat (vtomasr5) Description: systemd (http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd) is a system and session manager for Linux, compatible with SysV and LSB init scripts. systemd provides aggressive parallelization capabilities, uses socket and D-Bus activation for starting services, offers on-demand starting of daemons, keeps track of processes using Linux cgroups, supports snapshotting and restoring of the system state, maintains mount and automount points and implements an elaborate transactional dependency-based service control logic. It can work as a drop-in replacement for sysvinit. Thanks. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310327

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[New: openFATE 313210] get rid of all setuid binaries
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 09 Feb '12

09 Feb '12

Feature added by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Feature #313210, revision 1 Title: get rid of all setuid binaries openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: setuid binaries directly or indirectly cause a never ending stream of security issues due to bugs in various components: - the implementation of the binaries themselves (CVE-2011-2490, CVE-2011-1946, CVE-2011-1485, CVE-2011-2145, CVE-2011-1675, CVE-2010-4170, CVE-2009-2948) - libraries linked into setuid binaries (CVE-2010-3853, CVE-2010-3316, CVE-2009-0360) - glibc resp the linker (CVE-2011-1658, CVE-2010-3847, CVE-2011-0536, CVE-2010-3192, CVE-2011-1089) - kernel (CVE-2012-0056, CVE-2011-1020, CVE-2010-2240, CVE-2010-0296, CVE-2011-1020, CVE-2009-2848) Therefore we should strive to get rid of all setuid binaries and replace them with client/server implemenations. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313210

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[New: openFATE 313177] Persistent mountpoints in /media
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Feb '12

05 Feb '12

Feature added by: Ned Ulbricht (ned_ulbricht) Feature #313177, revision 1 Title: Persistent mountpoints in /media openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ned Ulbricht (ned_ulbricht) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Prior to 12.1, it was simple to create persistent directories for use as mountpoints under /media. Going back even further, /media itself was added to the FHS because many people had been creating persistent mountpoints under /mnt, and the consensus was that /mnt should be reserved for its traditional use as a top-level temporary mountpoint. Now however, in 12.1, with the adoption of systemd, /media is being mounted as a tmpfs. In addition this change was also rolled into the sysvinit setup. See http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2011-10/msg00546.html Since I'm using sysvinit with 12.1 (and not going to switch to systemd for anything other than test use during this release cycle), for now I've just decided to comment out the lines that mount /media as a tmpfs in /etc/init.d/boot.localfs Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Gratuitously breaking stuff that used to work makes people grumpy. Very grumpy. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313177

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