January 2013 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 310041] HP 3D GuardDrive
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

Feature added by: Dimitar Popov (dimitar_popov) Feature #310041, revision 1 Title: HP 3D GuardDrive openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Dimitar Popov (dimitar_popov) Description: I wish openSUSE to supply a daemon, which uses the /dev/freefall to provide hard disk head crash protection. There is an example application in /usr/src/linux/Documentation/hwmon/hpfall.c which might be used as a base for such a daemon and the needed modules (hp_accel and lis3lv02d) are present in kernel 2.6.31. I think this is an important feature for HP laptop users. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310041

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[New: openFATE 308557] Easier Network configration
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 Mar '13

25 Mar '13

Feature added by: belal mandurah (belal_mandurah) Feature #308557, revision 1 Title: Easier Network configration openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: belal mandurah (belal_mandurah) Description: There are lots of confusing settings when setting up a network and they are in diffrent location to edit (smb.conf, netbios name, host name, domain name, workgroup name, ports, allowed services ... etc) It is really frustrating when you cant access shared files, especially for home users. I suggest that there should be an easier way to configure a network , perhaps a wizard. something that maybe look like M$ wizard when setting up a network. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308557

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[New: openFATE 310311] Unify default PATH
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 13 Mar '13

13 Mar '13

Feature added by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Feature #310311, revision 1 Title: Unify default PATH openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Description: The default PATH settings for root and normal users are inconsistent at various places in the distribution: glibc - /usr/include/paths.h: #define _PATH_DEFPATH "/usr/bin:/bin" #define _PATH_STDPATH "/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin" coreutils - /etc/default/su: PATH=/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin SUPATH=/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin coreutils - /bin/su: #define DEFAULT_LOGIN_PATH "/usr/local/bin:/bin:/usr/bin:/usr/X11R6/bin" #define DEFAULT_ROOT_LOGIN_PATH "/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin" pwdutils - /etc/login.defs: ENV_PATH /usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin ENV_ROOTPATH /sbin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin aaa_base - /etc/profile and /etc/csh.login PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin PATH=/sbin:/usr/sbin:/usr/local/sbin:$PATH sudo: --with-secure-path=/usr/sbin:/bin:/usr/bin:/sbin:/usr/X11R6/bin ... and probably many more ... The default PATH setting should be made consistent across all tools. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310311

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[New: openFATE 314418] User management reworked
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Mar '13

08 Mar '13

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #314418, revision 1 Title: User management reworked Buildservice: Evaluation by engineering manager Milestone: 2.4 Priority Requester: Mandatory Projectmanager: Mandatory Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: As part of the Rails 3.2 port of OBS we need to re-do the interfaces for user and group managenment. They should get implemented in the webui now instead in the api part. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314418

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[New: openFATE 314350] Cloud backup
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 07 Mar '13

07 Mar '13

Feature added by: David Disseldorp (dmdiss) Feature #314350, revision 1 Title: Cloud backup openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: David Disseldorp (dmdiss) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: openSUSE currently includes a useful system backup module for creating archives of user and system files. Backup archives can be stored locally or on a remote NFS share. An improvement would be to allow users to store backup archives at a cloud storage location. I propose making use of the Elasto cloud storage library to implement this: http://oss.sgi.com/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?p=ddiss/elasto -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314350

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[New: openFATE 308285] Easy way to switch from 11.2 to Factory Repositories - and to 11.3
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Feature added by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Feature #308285, revision 1 Title: Easy way to switch from 11.2 to Factory Repositories - and to 11.3 openSUSE-11.3: Evaluation Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Description: Right now, I have to manually change the repositories when upgrading from 11.2 to Factory - or from Factory to 11.3. I'd like to have an easy way, e.g. 1-Click-Install or a script that does this automatically for my system. This might not change external repositories, e.g. on the Build Service, but it should change the official distribution repositories. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308285

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[openFATE 308181] Yast Install - textbox to test the keyboard
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Feature added by: Kayo Hamid (kayohf) Feature #308181, revision 1 Title: Yast Install - textbox to test the keyboard openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Kayo Hamid (kayohf) Description: Hi, i see that the Yast Install (11.2 M8) do not have a textbox to test the keymap that i have selected. My idea is to put one textbox to test the keyboard after the choose of keymap. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308181

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[openFATE 307628] give client a way to indicate preferred country for mirror choice
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Feature added by: Duncan Mac-Vicar (dmacvicar) Feature #307628, revision 1 Title: give client a way to indicate preferred country for mirror choice openSUSE-11.3: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Peter Poeml (poeml) Description: Hi, the mirror selection is based on precise, but relatively narrow network topology knowledge, as well as the "mostly" precise and sometimes lacking GeoIP information. For the cases where the IP cannot resolved, or cannot be resolved correctly, to a country, we can give the client a way to specify the country it is located in, to influence the mirror choice into the right direction. There are several groups of users that are affected by this: * users connected through satellite links can often be resolved only as country=A2, which is not a real country, it only indicates that this is a satellite link. * AOL users outside the US are not resolved (pseudo country A1). * IPs unknown to the GeoIP database, and not in one of the AS's which contain a mirror either * clients connected through a VPN that uses address space that's allocated in another country (e.g. clients in the Netherlands, whose employer is based in the US and runs a VPN that uses IP addresses that geolocate to the US) * Ipv6 clients (no GeoIP for that yet) Thus, it is desirable to give clients a way to indicate their location. CentOS uses something like that to influence or override mirror choice: http://www.centos.org/modules/news/article.php?storyid=118 In 11.2 libzypp, this could be implemented relatively easily (I believe) by adding a configuration directive "download-preferred-country" to /etc/zypp/zypp.conf, taking an ISO3166-1 two-letter code, and adding an HTTP request header (X-Preferred-Country) _if_ something is configured there. On another hand, since we intend to mainly use metalinks in the future, we could just use another aria2c option that makes this configurable: --metalink-location=LOCATION[,...] The location of the preferred server. A comma-delimited list of locations is acceptable, for example, JP,US. On the server side, the latter doesn't require anything to do. The former would be easy to implement. Something similar already exists, through ?country=xy request parameter, so one only needs to pick up the new header, which is a few lines of code. It could be used to deal with libcurl downloads, but in the light of metalink usage we should be able to neglect them. Relations: - give client a way to indicate preferred country for mirror choice (novell/bugzilla/id: 482894) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=482894 Discussion: #1: Peter Poeml (poeml) (2009-03-06 10:20:33) Duncan, can I assign this to you? I look into the git repository, tried to update but I stupidly failed with a file conflict and resolving it, else I would have given it a go... -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307628

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[openFATE 306966] No Shutdown/Suspend During Package Update
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Feature added by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Feature #306966, revision 1 Title: No Shutdown/Suspend During Package Update openSUSE-11.3: Evaluation Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: During a package update, it should not be possible to shutdown or suspend the system. Such requests should be delayed until the package update is finished. You do not want to bring the system in an inconsistent state. I consider this a desktop feature, so if somebody runs halt/shutdown on the console, this might not need to work - but if the GNOME/KDE shutdown/suspend options are used, it should finish the update first. Note: Windows does not allow shutdown during an update. What happened and let me to report this as feature: A user installed a kernel update and thought the update was finished. But only one out of the three kernel packages was updated and therefore after a reboot, the system did not came up completely. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: If this feature is not implemented, people can get broken systems - which might result in support calls. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306966

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[openFATE 306767] Yast2 package manager: add more filters
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Mar '13

05 Mar '13

Feature added by: Vincent Petry (PVince81) Feature #306767, revision 1 Title: Yast2 package manager: add more filters openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Vincent Petry (pvince81) Description: It would be nice to have the following additional filters, maybe in the "view" menu: 1) Only show the packages that have a major version update 2) Same as 1) with minor version 3) Only show packages that appeared since the last refresh (see https://features.opensuse.org/306766) 4) Only show packages which version has changed since the last refresh (see https://features.opensuse.org/306766) 5) Only show installed packages 6) Only show non-installed packages The filters should be toggles/checkboxes, so that it's possible to combine them. Such filters are already available in the smart package manager. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306767

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