August 2015 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 311388] openSUSE Sky
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Nov '16

15 Nov '16

Feature added by: Timo Hoenig (thoenig) Feature #311388, revision 1 Title: openSUSE Sky openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE Infrastructure: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Timo Hoenig (thoenig) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: With this feature I am announcing openSUSE Sky. openSUSE Sky will bring our distribution to cloud environments by providing official images for both openSUSE releases and snapshots of current development versions. With openSUSE Sky running the latest and greatest snapshot of openSUSE will be as easy as a mouse click. This gives developers the most efficient way for reproducing bugs on vanilla snapshots. Cloud users will appreciate to have access to trusted built of our distribution without any unknown modifications (e.g. intentional backdoors). Target cloud platforms are Amazon EC2 (using EBS/S3) and Eucalyptus (Walrus). Target audience are cloud users and developers. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/311388

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[New: openFATE 316224] Drop dhcpcd from distribution
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Nov '16

15 Nov '16

Feature added by: Peter Varkoly (varkoly) Feature #316224, revision 1 Title: Drop dhcpcd from distribution Requested by: Peter Varkoly (varkoly) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: We are going to drop dhcpcd on SLES. There are more reasons: 1. We already have two alternate packages for dhcpcd: dhcp-client and wicked. 2. The actual version will not be maintained by upstream 3. An update to the actual dhcpcd version requires a lot of unneeded work. Stefan Winterfeld was informed and he knows that our initrd must be adapted. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/316224

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[New: openFATE 310668] run pulseaudio server with 'flat-volumes=no'
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

Feature added by: robert spitzenpfeil (robert_spitzenpfeil) Feature #310668, revision 1 Title: run pulseaudio server with 'flat-volumes=no' openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: robert spitzenpfeil (robert_spitzenpfeil) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I listen to music while writing... and every single time I change songs a hilariously loud POP is almost killing my ears. This is annoying and painful. What's also annoying is that with 'flat-volumes = yes' the master volume is changed to the loudest individual stream. If a rogue application should choose to up the volume, my ears get fried (headphones !) Personally I think the purpose of having a master volume slider is to limit the max volume to avoid this kind of crap, which is totally nullified by 'flat-volumes = yes' ! Proposal: use 'flat-volumes = no' as the default in '/etc/pulse/daemon.conf'. I think the user is clever enough to handle the volume sliders himself. And only because Vista or W7 fiddles with the master volume in this _sick_ way, we don't need that as well. Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. play a song 2. increase the volume for the app. using pavucontrol or with the app. itself 3. master volume is pushed up as well Expected Results: The user should be the _only_ one messing with MASTER VOLUME. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: With 'flat-volumes=yes' it is possible to get permanent hearing damage if unexpected volume surges are forced into the user's ears! Again with this feature enabled _any_ application that uses pulseaudio can set the master volume to 100%. That might be tolerable with a stereo system with a manual volume knob, but on a laptop + headphones this is close to a criminal assault. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310668

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[New: openFATE 312890] Opensuse 12.1 - provide Blender 2.6 as default install
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

Feature added by: Jedi Beeftrix (Jedibeeftrix) Feature #312890, revision 1 Title: Opensuse 12.1 - provide Blender 2.6 as default install openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jedi Beeftrix (jedibeeftrix) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Blender 2.6 finally here on Sunday the 16th of October. A huge milestone for Blender, and the best opensource 3D modelling/rendering/animation/editing package available, on linux or otherwise. http://www.blendernation.com/2011/10/14/blender-2-60-rc2-available/ This really should be included on the 12.1 dvd .iso Please! -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312890

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[New: openFATE 314707] zypper history
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

Feature added by: Marcus Moeller (MarcusMoeller) Feature #314707, revision 1 Title: zypper history openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Marcus Moeller (marcusmoeller) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: zypper should have something like a history function, similar to yum. With this history function, past installation tasks could be listed, and even undone. example usage: zypper history info: list history -> every step in history has a dedicated number zypper history undo $number: undo the installation This could also be very useful on software testing. If one wants to take a look at the current status of e.g. KDE and uninstall it afterwards. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314707

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[New: openFATE 314853] Remove xterm and icewm from default installation
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

Feature added by: Jared Meidal (kahu) Feature #314853, revision 1 Title: Remove xterm and icewm from default installation openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jared Meidal (kahu) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: xterm and icewm are great alternatives, but seem redundant when always bundled with default installations of Gnome or KDE's terminal (gnome-terminal, konsole). Also, having the icewm session is a great fallback and useful for emergency access but really necessary by default? I have found that if I remove xterm is removed the bundle with icewm, but also xorg-X11 and other packages. When this happens GDM will not launch after a reboot without CLI commands. This does not feel intuitive for a smooth default system, or helpful for a user who is wanting to clean up their packages or menu items they do not use. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314853

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[New: openFATE 314883] /root symlinked to /home/root
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Nov '16

02 Nov '16

Feature added by: Kalenz . (Kalenz) Feature #314883, revision 1 Title: /root symlinked to /home/root openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Neutral Requested by: Kalenz . (kalenz) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I might be saying something stupid here, in which case just shout me down. But: by default openSUSE installs with a separate /home partition, and for a typical user the most obvious benefits are: - ability to format/reinstall without erasing /home; - ability to share /home with different installs/distros; - (less sexy: keep root partition small, for efficiency.) Based on the first two arguments, I think we would be doing most users a favour by placing /root on the /home folder. Arguments for: (1) It is the home folder of the root user, so surely /home is a sensible place to keep it; (2) /root typically contains credential files, config scripts and so on, which you probably don't want to lose if you format / (and not /home). Arguments against: (3) I can imagine this to be problematic if you encrypt /, but not /home. What do others think? -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314883

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[New: openFATE 318921] YaST should log time like dmesg and journalctl
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 01 Nov '16

01 Nov '16

Feature added by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) Feature #318921, revision 1 Title: YaST should log time like dmesg and journalctl Requested by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: YaST should log the time in its log-file like 'dmesg' and 'journalctl --output short-monotonic' so that times in the various logs can be compared and events can be synchronized. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Easier to analyse logs in bug reports. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/318921

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[New: openFATE 308401] Opensuse netbook edition
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 Oct '16

25 Oct '16

Feature added by: Agustin Chavarria (dj_ubun_1) Feature #308401, revision 1 Title: Opensuse netbook edition openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Mandatory Requested by: Agustin Chavarria (dj_ubun_1) Description: The growing demand for netbooks, has made several distributions of Linux, to create a specific version for these computers. The creation of a version with moblin, with gnome, and kde would be a big step. and also enter a specific kernel for these computers, including drivers and kernel patches to improve stability of the distribution. This would include a change in the interface in both gnome and kde, and both of these projects have packages to improve the interface little displays -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308401

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[openFATE 306896] Zypp-proxy - A proxy cache server for zypper updates
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 15 Oct '16

15 Oct '16

Feature added by: Alex Tsariounov (tsariounov) Feature #306896, revision 1 Title: Zypp-proxy - A proxy cache server for zypper updates Hackweek IV: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Alex Tsariounov (tsariounov) Description: This project will create zypp-proxy which is a server proxy used for caching update packages that are used by machines on the local network on a locally designated host machine that acts as a proxy to the openSUSE updates repositories. The project is similar in function and requirements to the Debian project apt-proxy, details of which can be found here: http://apt-proxy.sourceforge.net/ This project is useful for those who run many local (both physical and virtual) openSUSE machines and like to keep them up to date with updates; however, they do not wish to waste bandwidth for downloading the same updates over and over to all local machines whether when keeping exisiting machines up to date, or building new machines and having to re-download all updates yet again. For some people, simply mirroring the entire openSUSE updates repository is sufficient to provide local network updates; however, for most, since they do not use near as many packages as that repository provides, doing this simply wastes disk space. These people will find zypp-proxy most useful. Both server and client setup will be quite simple. The server will use the public openSUSE updates repositories to check for updates. The clients will point to the local server (the proxy) machine for updates rather than the public servers. When a client requests an update, the zypp-proxy server first checks if the public server has a more up to date package that what it has cached locally. If the public server doesn't, then zypp-proxy serves the locally cached package. If the public server does have a more up to date package, then zypp-proxy first downloads it to its local cache and then serves it to the client. How many old versions of packages to keep will be a configurable. The first implementation will support openSUSE 11.1 only, with support for other openSUSE releases following suit. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306896

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