March 2014 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 312919] Provide a package for Desura in non-OSS
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 11 Dec '14

11 Dec '14

Feature added by: Audard Guillaume (AGui) Feature #312919, revision 1 Title: Provide a package for Desura in non-OSS openSUSE 12.1: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Audard Guillaume (agui) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Desura is a video game store, competitor of Steam, which provides many Indie games for Linux and Windows. See www.desura.com They released recently a client for Linux (both 32bits and 64bits), and it could be added to the non-OSS repository. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Currently, it is quite difficult to install games which are not in the repositories and for which there are not rpms, such as most of the ones in the Humble Bundles. With Desura, you can purchase and install games easily, and it also manages updates. Most indie game developpers don't provide a repository for openSUSE, so you would have to track their website to get updates. For now, to install Desura, you have to go on their website, download a .tar.gz archive, extract it and launch a program in a console. Having it in the repositories would ease the installation for most users. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312919

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[New: openFATE 309059] source repository cleanup mechanism
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 01 Dec '14

01 Dec '14

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #309059, revision 1 Title: source repository cleanup mechanism Buildservice: Evaluation Priority Requester: Mandatory Projectmanager: Mandatory Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Description: Every ever uploaded source file is currently still part of source server. This hurts esp. when scripts upload daily new svn/git/.. snapshots as tar balls. This will more often happen when the source service mechanisms wil be more often used. We shall implement a mechanism to list and remove not anymore referenced files in any source revision files. This might be implemented in bs_admin or alike tool for the admin on the server. But it must be race free to allow working with currently running source servers. (maybe via giving the source server a signal to store .rev files on remove in an additional path. This interacts with the undelete features). We should also have a mechanism to shorten a revision log (unclear who and when should be allowed to do this). -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309059

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[New: openFATE 313546] Get rid of SuSEconfig.scim
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Nov '14

26 Nov '14

Feature added by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Feature #313546, revision 1 Title: Get rid of SuSEconfig.scim openSUSE Distribution: Evaluation by project manager Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Andreas Jaeger (a_jaeger) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: There is no point to run that code after installation of every package (and it's not run when you use zypper or 3rd party tools anyways). That code should be only run as a part of post-install of affected packages. Relations: - Remove SuSEconfig (feature/id: 100011) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/313546

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[New: openFATE 311130] Open source client to manage VMware ESX(i) Servers
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

Feature added by: Yuri Tsarev (xnull) Feature #311130, revision 1 Title: Open source client to manage VMware ESX(i) Servers Hackweek VI: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Yuri Tsarev (xnull) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: An open source client to perform basic administration management of VMware ESX(i) Servers. Client should provide ability of virtual machine creation and administration, accessing VM console remotely, snapshotting, changing main VM parameters such as memory/disk size, iso image connecting etc. Use Case: Bob is a Linux administrator. He has to manage VMware ESXi 4 Servers but he doesn't want to use VMware VSphere client for Windows. It's very convenient for him to use an open source client for this purposes which runs on his Linux desktop. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311130

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[New: openFATE 314662] Use a "green Adwaita" GTK theme
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 11 Nov '14

11 Nov '14

Feature added by: Michael Catanzaro (Golbats_Everywhere) Feature #314662, revision 1 Title: Use a "green Adwaita" GTK theme openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Michael Catanzaro (golbats_everywhere) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: openSUSE 12.1/12.2 uses the upstream Adwaita GTK theme. This is mostly good, since it's a very high-quality theme, and I believe one of our goals is to not diverge much from the upstream GNOME experience. However, GNOME's main color is blue, whereas ours is green. When highlighting text, the highlight is blue. When selecting an item in a list, the background turns blue. When selecting the scrollbar, the scrollbar turns blue. When typing into a text form, the form is outlined in blue. I propose we change the blue elements of Adwaita to green elements (by default). This should be all that is changed, so that the theme remains simple to maintain and retains the GNOME feel. I separately propose using the Sonar icon set by default in GNOME, which still works great in 12.2 and is very very close to upstream GNOME. This is not essential to the overall proposal. Screenshots of a mockup: Current: http://paste.opensuse.org/92804741 Proposed: http://paste.opensuse.org/31898989 Current: http://paste.opensuse.org/33805016 Proposed: http://paste.opensuse.org/27086964 Current: http://paste.opensuse.org/13532791 Proposed: http://paste.opensuse.org/57771364 Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: A green Adwaita theme would fit both upstream GNOME and also openSUSE, and would add a level of polish and integration to the distro. The current "blue Adwaita" theme feels out of place in openSUSE, particularly considering the attention to artistic detail in other parts of the distribution. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314662

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[New: openFATE 311336] zypper lr --active - list only active repos
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 06 Nov '14

06 Nov '14

Feature added by: Christian Boltz (cboltz) Feature #311336, revision 1 Title: zypper lr --active - list only active repos openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Christian Boltz (cboltz) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I often find myself to run zypper lr | grep 'Yes *|' to get a list of all active repos on my system. A zypper option would be useful for this - something like zypper lr --active (not sure about the short version of this option, because the obvious ones (-a, -A) are already taken.) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311336

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[New: openFATE 314473] Replace pwdutils with shadow utilities
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 23 Oct '14

23 Oct '14

Feature added by: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk) Feature #314473, revision 1 Title: Replace pwdutils with shadow utilities Requested by: Thorsten Kukuk (kukuk) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The pwdutils are from a time where the shadow utilities did not had a maintainer and the patches every Linux distribution had were longer then the whole source code. Meanwhile the upstream project is active again and most patches where accepted. Thus we should switch to the shadow project to get all the advantages (for example acl,extended attributes,selinux support). Relations: - README.changes-pwdutils (url: https://build.opensuse.org/package/view_file?file=README.changes-pwdutils&p…) -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314473

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[New: openFATE 308967] Allow Oracle Instant Packages
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 Oct '14

18 Oct '14

Feature added by: Ciro Iriarte (ciriarte) Feature #308967, revision 1 Title: Allow Oracle Instant Packages Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ciro Iriarte (ciriarte) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Include Oracle Instant Client in openSUSE or at least, allow for creation and store in Build Service. This was attempted before but all the work was lost because the files were deleted from OBS. The InstantClient can be redistributed and it doesn't require any license to be used, the only issue is that it doesn't include source code. This can be handled like Sun's Java or Adobe Acrobat. Ref: http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-buildservice/2007-08/msg00311.html (http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-buildservice/2007-08/msg00311.html) http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-oracle/2007-Aug/0055.html (http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-oracle/2007-Aug/0055.html) Use Case: Creation of dependent packages like php-oci, Perl DBD::Oracle or TOra Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: To make easier the user's life, also this feature would be very attractive, providing Oracle connectivity from CLI, GUI, PHP and Perl out of the box, or at least really fast after adding the needed repository. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308967

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[New: openFATE 310516] YaST2 DNSSEC
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Oct '14

02 Oct '14

Feature added by: Peter Bowen (pzb) Feature #310516, revision 1 Title: YaST2 DNSSEC openSUSE-11.4: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Peter Bowen (pzb) Description: With the root zone now being signed, DNSSEC is finally seeing adoption. It would be really nice for YaST to be able to generate a signed zone. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310516

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[New: openFATE 315590] Support non-numeric names for md/raid devices.
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Sep '14

30 Sep '14

Feature added by: Neil Brown (neilbrown) Feature #315590, revision 1 Title: Support non-numeric names for md/raid devices. Requested by: Neil Brown (neilbrown) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: mdadm-3.3 (due to be released July 2013) will support md device named like "md_home" as well as the traditional "md4". However these names are likely to confuses installers and other system managers so they are disabled by default. To get full benefit from these we need to: 1) Make sure initrd scripts in mdadm package handle these names. 2) teach yast-storage to be able to use non-numeric names and not to be confused by them 3) update any system administration documentation 4) check any system monitoring tools to ensure they won't get confused. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: More friendly device names make for an improved user experience. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/315590

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