June 2015 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 310712] Constantly usable Factory
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 18 Nov '15

18 Nov '15

Feature added by: Christoph Obexer (cobexer) Feature #310712, revision 1 Title: Constantly usable Factory openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Christoph Obexer (cobexer) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I recently read about the Debain CUT project, ( http://cut.debian.net/ (http://cut.debian.net/) , http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/debian/cut/ (http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/debian/cut/) ) looking at the current situation with openSuSE Factory i see that it is dangerous to use, unstable alpha or beta packages come into Factory all the time, while other packages become out of date. The result is a system that is pretty much unusable. Only allowing stable packages to enter Factory would make that a lot better, and if one finds bugs chances are that those bugs aren't already fixed in a newer svn/git snapshot, but are real bugs. This would save a lot of time for testers and developers in dealing with "invalid", or "temporary" bugs. I think that a robust, "stable" Factory would lead to more people using it full time and thus a better quality of the next openSuSE version. I see that this would have negative aspects as well, but i think most devel projects have unstable/testing repositories set up already and those could still contain the snapshots of upcoming versions, testers of those specific projects could use tose repositories then. Doing a release of openSuSE would be easier then too, simply snapshot Factory, and declare it as openSuSE $VERSION. The transition from the current state to a "constantly usable Factory" would be smooth too. And it's also in line with the openSuSE vision, stable rather than bleeding edge. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: More users using Factory -> better stability of Factory -> better stability of openSuSE $VERSION -> openSuSE back where it should be - the Linux for professionals. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310712

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[New: openFATE 309700] Advanced uninstall/Rollback support in package management, zypper
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Oct '15

30 Oct '15

Feature added by: Nikanth K (nikanth) Feature #309700, revision 1 Title: Advanced uninstall/Rollback support in package management, zypper openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Nikanth K (nikanth) Description: # Zypper install evolution This will install say 13 packages, evolution and its dependencies including evolution-data-server etc.... #zypper remove evolution This will remove only evolution. Leaving the dependencies installed. The 12 packages are left installed. Instead provide an easy way to rollback/uninstall all those packages using say a transaction-id from the history. So that, say we have foo.rpm which needs bar.rpm #zypper install foo #zypper remove foo will not leave bar installed in the system. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309700

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[New: openFATE 309070] Allow auth
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 27 Oct '15

27 Oct '15

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #309070, revision 1 Title: Allow auth Buildservice: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Desirable Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Description: Implement authentification plugin for api which allows authentification against remote http web server. This may need changes in session handling. We want to use this plugin and setup for opensuse.org and connect api.o.o and build.o.o directly to internet without iChain proxy. Discussion: #1: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) (2010-02-23 12:06:04) Tom, we need your expertise here, what is possible with rails and what makes sense. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309070

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[New: openFATE 310233] skip repo update when installing packages with zypper
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 24 Sep '15

24 Sep '15

Feature added by: Denny Beyer (lumnis) Feature #310233, revision 1 Title: skip repo update when installing packages with zypper openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Denny Beyer (lumnis) Description: When installing a new package with zypper etc. everytime you run zypper, repos get updated and the user has to wait. Because a general user needs several extra repos, this waiting time always seems to be too long. Why not running 'zypper ref' as a low priority task after startup/time intervall has passed and give the used immidiate access to install a software package? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310233

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[New: openFATE 318306] Systemd service to catch crashed X, try to auto repair it and restart
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 08 Sep '15

08 Sep '15

Feature added by: Mindaugas Baranauskas (embar-) Feature #318306, revision 1 Title: Systemd service to catch crashed X, try to auto repair it and restart openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important SUSE Studio: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Mindaugas Baranauskas (embar-) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: We could have solution automatically detect, if X.Org X Server terminated with error. Then we could try repair X configuration and restart X server. Test Case: That case encouraged me to write systemd service and script, which temporaly is named as check-x-failed. You can download it as systemd-check-x-failed-service RPM package: http://software.opensuse.org/download.html?project=home%3Aembar-%3ALietukas… Source is here: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:embar-:Lietukas/systemd-check-… This is included in openSUSE based appliance âLietukasâ ( https://susestudio.com/a/CttYWz/lietukas-13-2-64-bit ) Use Case: This is very important now as we swithed to system and much system modules are included in initrd. This my cose much problems, e.g. then we we boot from LiveCD/LiveUSB. One problematic case described here: http://suse-studio-users.1598176.n2.nabble.com/Tesdrive-OK-but-does-not-dir… -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/318306

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[New: openFATE 312852] Hack your windows with sticky notes
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 Aug '15

25 Aug '15

Feature added by: Christopher De Nicolo (dec16180) Feature #312852, revision 1 Title: Hack your windows with sticky notes Hackweek VII: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Christopher De Nicolo (dec16180) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: What geeks really need: http://www.geekosystem.com/french-post-it-note-war/ -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312852

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[New: openFATE 312810] Build a wireless lan access point
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 Aug '15

25 Aug '15

Feature added by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Feature #312810, revision 1 Title: Build a wireless lan access point openSUSE.org: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Juergen Weigert (jnweiger) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Use hostap mode to turn a laptop into a full featured access point. (not just ad-hoc). Find out which hardware is suitable. I have an USB-Wlan-dongle with rt73 chipset, whichis reported to support AP-mode. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312810

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[New: openFATE 314922] Amazon EC2
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 14 Aug '15

14 Aug '15

Feature added by: Paulo Andrade (bugsoftware) Feature #314922, revision 1 Title: Amazon EC2 SUSE Studio: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Paulo Andrade (bugsoftware) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I would like Amazon EC2 support for Opensuse 12.3 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314922

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[New: openFATE 311401] Live CD templates
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 14 Aug '15

14 Aug '15

Feature added by: Mustafa Hadi (mustafa1987) Feature #311401, revision 1 Title: Live CD templates SUSE Studio: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Mustafa Hadi (mustafa1987) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Add a template with their default package selection is all the software available on the live CDs (KDE Live CD and Gnome Live CD) and the software automatically selected on the first yast software manager run, adding these templates is not hard to do (they are just package selection lists) an its benifits will be great. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: To provide a complete operating system that can be then extended with additional software, the KDE4 template is just not enough. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311401

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[New: openFATE 318204] Drop Yast LXC (replaced by libvirt / docker)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 05 Aug '15

05 Aug '15

Feature added by: Lukas Ocilka (locilka) Feature #318204, revision 1 Title: Drop Yast LXC (replaced by libvirt / docker) Requested by: Lukas Ocilka (locilka) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Yast LXC is not needed anymore, libvirt-lxc already covers that. Additionally, docker with Yast Docker module seem to be a good replacement for LXC. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Less code to maintain, less bugs. Yast doesn't need to provide functionality that already exists and is maintained elsewhere. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/318204

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