October 2016 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[New: openFATE 319313] Keep showing running maintenance incidents to packager
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 27 Mar '18

27 Mar '18

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #319313, revision 1 Title: Keep showing running maintenance incidents to packager Buildservice: New Milestone: 2.7 Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Package maintainers want to be able to see running maintenance updates. Currently they see an update, which they have prepared only when: - their maintenance update request is not yet accepted - they keep their bugzilla entry open (which is referenced in patchinfo). This is good for the "my work" view, which should only show tasks where the packager has to act. But there is currently no easy way to see all running updates on request. There are two possible scenarios of not-yet-released updates: - open incident, still building or collecting updates - frozen incident, running release request (read being tested by QA). The open incident can be covered by a search for patchinfos where the user is listed as packager and where the project is not locked. The frozen incident situation should be covered by monitoring the request. There is fate #310145 which wants a generic monitoring of requests. We can use this by adding the packager from _patchinfo to the release request. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/319313

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[New: openFATE 318339] Clone repo API support
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 27 Feb '18

27 Feb '18

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #318339, revision 1 Title: Clone repo API support Buildservice: Evaluation by engineering manager Milestone: 2.7 Priority Requester: Mandatory Projectmanager: Important Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Requested by: Stephan Kulow (coolo) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Coolo wants the obs_admin support for cloning repos as command. Rudi may also wants this. I assume we need this as background/invoked job like the project copy is implemented. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/318339

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[New: openFATE 308899] allow repository specification in project meta xml
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 27 Feb '18

27 Feb '18

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #308899, revision 1 Title: allow repository specification in project meta xml Buildservice: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Important Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Description: We have currently to set Type, Repotype and Patterntype in project conf data. That makes it hard to add an images repo easily with a gui that works. Before creating code interpreting the prjconf, I would like to suggest to extend repository xml element to define this as default. Opinions ? Feature is completed when we have an "Add kiwi images repository" button. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308899

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[New: openFATE 308619] Provide Kwallet integration for Firefox
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 25 Feb '18

25 Feb '18

Feature added by: Jimmy Berry (boombatower) Feature #308619, revision 1 Title: Provide Kwallet integration for Firefox openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Jimmy Berry (boombatower) Description: I have wanted such a feature for sometime and recently discoved https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/49357 via identi.ca talk. Since openSUSE 11.2 includes KDE integration for Firefox, I think this would be a great thing to either add/finish/polish or just defaultly include as part of integration. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308619

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[New: openFATE 310922] central system user registry
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Feb '18

12 Feb '18

Feature added by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Feature #310922, revision 1 Title: central system user registry openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Once upon a time all systems users were defined in aaa_base via the default /etc/passwd file. When the uid space below uid 100 got too small a new dynamic range between 100 and 499 was introduced. So nowadays packages dynamically create a user in %pre which gets a random uid in this range. Disadvantage: uids are different on every system. Usually this is not a problem but for programs that export files over the network it is. TV recordings made by VDR for example. useradd has a --preferred-uid option for such cases. It's possible to specify a uid and useradd tries to use it. If it's already taken another one is chosen. Thefore I'd propose to leverage that feature: - introduce a central uid registry for system users, e.g a file in aaa_base - lower SYSTEM_UID_MAX (/etc/login.defs) to e.g. 349 and assign "preferred uids" in the rage 350-499. - change useradd calls in packages to a macro that transparently decides whether a preferred uid needs to be used. Use Case: - two systems running vdr, one for recording, the other one for playback on a TV want to share recordings via nfs. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310922

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[New: openFATE 310464] Changer text console color
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Jan '18

30 Jan '18

Feature added by: Максим Муруев (slimy) Feature #310464, revision 1 Title: Changer text console color openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Максим Муруев (slimy) Description: Feature for yast change console color. And green color for console by default. I think green is opensuse color. For first console stay white, for best look boot log. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310464

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[New: openFATE 310680] Make Icon Theme installer only show .tar.gz themes
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Jan '18

30 Jan '18

Feature added by: 6tr6tr 6tr6tr (6tr6tr) Feature #310680, revision 1 Title: Make Icon Theme installer only show .tar.gz themes openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: 6tr6tr 6tr6tr (6tr6tr) Description: I recently tried installing new icon themes into openSUSE 11.3 via the Configure Desktop app. It showed a lot of themes with an "install" button, but when I pressed it, nothing happened. It turns out, that's because it only installs .tar.gz files and a number of the themes listed are in other formats. So the "Get New Themes..." popup should only show files it can actually install. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310680

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[openFate 305144] [Feature-request] Yast as a Linux learning tool
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Jan '18

30 Jan '18

Feature added by: Arvin Schnell <aschnell(a)novell.com> Feature #305144, revision 1, last change by Title: [Feature-request] Yast as a Linux learning tool openSUSE-11.1: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Alexey Eremenko <al4321(a)gmail.com> Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Hi All ! I Have very good new idea: converting Yast into a Linux learning tool. This is very simple to achieve: Yast must show the commands it executes and files it modifies, in a nice GUI dialog. It will allow all kinds of Linux users understand how things really work. Enable learn new things or remind how old-but-forgotten things work for seasoned people. Great, isn't it ? P.S. Jay Vollmer recommends, that among the commands that Yast shows as it executing, it should also recommend "man pages" for the relevant underlying commands. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov", 29.jul.2008. Discussion: #1: Alexey Eremenko <al4321(a)gmail.com> (2008-07-29 12:09:11) Rajko M. wrote: If one wants to see what is gong on in background, than look at logs in realtime. There is console (Konsole) and command tail. Run as root: tail -f /var/log/YaST2/y2log and then start YaST and play with. -- -Alexey Eromenko "Technologov", 29.jul.2008. #2: Jerry Houston <jerry.houston(a)comcast.net> (2008-07-29 15:41:34) Sounds like a great way for new users to learn more about what's under the hood. Or, what's under the bonnet, for the Brits. #3: Cyril Hrubis <chrubis(a)novell.com> (2008-07-31 07:11:21) Moving to maintainers to decide. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305144

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[openFATE 307545] Add openSUSE's Bugzilla and openFATE to Firefox's Bookmarks folder.
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 30 Jan '18

30 Jan '18

Feature added by: Ricardo Varas (RicardoVarasSantana) Feature #307545, revision 1 Title: Add openSUSE's Bugzilla and openFATE to Firefox's Bookmarks folder. openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Ricardo Varas (ricardovarassantana) Description: I am thinking about the importance of those two features being included in openSUSE's Brand of Firefox, in case the user needs or feels like filing a bug or requesting and/or checking new features, For new users it'd become a much easier task having those items bookmarked by default. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/307545

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[openFATE 306972] produce proper diffs for status update mails
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Jan '18

02 Jan '18

Feature added by: Karsten König (remur) Feature #306972, revision 1 Title: produce proper diffs for status update mails openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Karsten König (remur) Description: Beeing interested in a very active feature request like https://features.opensuse.org/306967 results in a lot of mails, all which contain the full feature request with all the comments, it'd be nice if one could switch to a more bugzilla like behaviour so you only see what's changed, or in case it is an awnser maybe quote the previous message as well, but finding 4 lines tagged with + in a thread where people feel +1 beeing a proper comment is somewhat awkward. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/306972

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[openFATE 305931] Temporary Build Support (aka mbuild)
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 02 Jan '18

02 Jan '18

Feature added by: Adrian Schröter (adrianSuSE) Feature #305931, revision 1, last change by Title: Temporary Build Support (aka mbuild) Buildservice: Evaluation Priority Requester: Important Projectmanager: Important Requested by: Adrian Schröter (adriansuse) Description: A temporary build support is wanted to obsolete what we currently have internal as mbuild. A temporary Build should fullfill the following requirements: * Upload of local sources without the need to create a project or package namespace manually. * Build as part of an existing project, without the need to have write access there and without to modify it. * Build results should be stored and downloadable for X time. Afterwards they need to get removed automatically. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305931

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[New: openFATE 316634] Change HISTCONTROL default value to ignoredups
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Dec '17

20 Dec '17

Feature added by: Jorge Vallecillo (altmas5) Feature #316634, revision 1 Title: Change HISTCONTROL default value to ignoredups openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Jorge Vallecillo (altmas5) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The default value of HISTCONTROL bash enviroment variable should be changed to ignoredups instead of ignoreboth. ignoreboth includes ignorespace, which is a security flaw allowing users to type sensitive commands supressing them from bash_history file and leaving no auditing clue. OpenSUSE should set the tone compared to other distros giving importance needed to security details like these. Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Security by default. Minimize risks. Identify malicious users. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/316634

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[New: openFATE 309271] Buildservice should show signing key status
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 20 Nov '17

20 Nov '17

Feature added by: Marcus Rückert (darix) Feature #309271, revision 1 Title: Buildservice should show signing key status Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Marcus Rückert (darix) Description: 13:04:55 < stbuehler> darix: W: GPG error: http://download.opensuse.org ./ Release: The following signatures were invalid: KEYEXPIRED 1270156083 (http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tools/Debian_5.0/) It would be nice if the obs would show the expiry date atleast in the webui. some OSC integration would be nice aswell. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309271

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[New: openFATE 314702] Request for package: Obnam
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 11 Oct '17

11 Oct '17

Feature added by: Rahim Barbamas (rahim123) Feature #314702, revision 1 Title: Request for package: Obnam Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openFATE: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Rahim Barbamas (rahim123) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Would it be possible to package Obnam for openSUSE? http://liw.fi/obnam/ It is a highly advanced backup/versioning control system with de-duplication. It is packaged for CentOS and Debian already. Thanks! -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/314702

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[New: openFATE 312047] make repo keys available on project's web site via SSL
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 26 Sep '17

26 Sep '17

Feature added by: John McInnes (jamjamjamjam) Feature #312047, revision 1 Title: make repo keys available on project's web site via SSL Buildservice: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: John McInnes (jamjamjamjam) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: I was thinking of a way to get repo keys to users in a secure fashion, so they can have some measure of trust, instead of just blindly accepting/importing new keys when installing software. Personally, before accepting a key, I will usually try to google it by ID or fingerprint, search various gpg key servers, ask on a mailing list or newsgroup for 3rd party verification, etc... its a pain in the ***. So I see that the buildservice provides a https interface to project pages. It would be a nice feature to provide the project repo keys there. At least show ID and fingerprint. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312047

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[New: openFATE 308207] Help users to print two sided pages
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 17 Sep '17

17 Sep '17

Feature added by: Luís Nogueira (luisnogueira) Feature #308207, revision 1 Title: Help users to print two sided pages Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Luís Nogueira (luisnogueira) Description: http://forum.kde.org/brainstorm.php#idea82537 Manual duplex printing it's easy at windows. We should implement this feature! And it's environment friend. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308207

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[New: openFATE 309019] mtp support for opensuse and dolphin
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Sep '17

12 Sep '17

Feature added by: Agustin Chavarria (dj_ubun_1) Feature #309019, revision 1 Title: mtp support for opensuse and dolphin openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Agustin Chavarria (dj_ubun_1) Description: Some peoples have music players, and they can't navigate to this files of music player, just using amarok or other apps. The mtp support for dolphin it's an important feature, i have a philips PSA610, and i never can use this music player in linux :S -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309019

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[openFate 305737] remove warning of missing swap from expert partitioner
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 12 Sep '17

12 Sep '17

Feature added by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) Feature #305737, revision 1, last change by Title: remove warning of missing swap from expert partitioner openSUSE-11.2: New Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Arvin Schnell (aschnell) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: There are requests to remove the warning about a missing swap device from the expert partitioner for systems with only SSDs. I want to go one step further and remove the warning altogether since RAM has increased so much in the past. Relations: - proposal for SSD (novell/bugzilla/id: 467874) https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=467874 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/?rm=feature_show&id=305737

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[New: openFATE 312137] Equivalent of nvidia-settings for Nouveau
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Sep '17

10 Sep '17

Feature added by: Audard Guillaume (AGui) Feature #312137, revision 1 Title: Equivalent of nvidia-settings for Nouveau openSUSE Distribution: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Audard Guillaume (agui) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: The open source driver for Nvidia GPU, Nouveau, is more and more performant. It is already fully usable instead of the proprietary driver. However, there is no GUI to configure display. SaX2 module is not available anymore in YaST in openSUSE 11.4, and there is no way to make modifications such as defining the dpi. Developping an equivalent of nvidia-settings for Nouveau would push even more users to switch to open source drivers. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/312137

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[openFATE 308149] KDE needs to have a touchpad configuration utility.
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Sep '17

10 Sep '17

Feature added by: Rafael Belmonte (EagleScreen) Feature #308149, revision 1 Title: KDE needs to have a touchpad configuration utility. openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Package Wishlist: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Rafael Belmonte (eaglescreen) Description: KDE needs a touchpad configuration tool, if Sax2 does not provide it, you can package a new kcm module: kcm_touchpad, which can configure synaptics based touchpads, you can find it in KDE-Apps: http://www.kde-apps.org/content/show.php/kcm_touchpad?content=113335 -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/308149

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[New: openFATE 310706] zypper: allow to adjust proposed solver solution
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Sep '17

10 Sep '17

Feature added by: Ján Kupec (jkupec) Feature #310706, revision 1 Title: zypper: allow to adjust proposed solver solution openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Desirable Requested by: Ján Kupec (jkupec) Description: It would be nice if it would be possible to change the solver solution at the point when the installation summary is shown and zypper prompts whether to continue. This would allow the user to conveniently remove unwanted packages automatically chosen for installation, add another package, etc. This is especially needed if it is difficult to work one's way to the solution (in case of many dependency problems, e.g. during an upgrade). Removing, adding, and keeping an installed version of a package could be implemented as part of this feature request first. Further enhancements can be done later. Use Case: During a dist-upgrade, user goes through a lot of solver problems. Then sees something unwanted in the summary. Currently the only solution is to quit, lock a package or change some command line options, restart the dist-upgrade and go through all the painfull solving again. With this feature the user would have a good chance of changing the summary in a convenient way. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310706

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[New: openFATE 309381] antivirus configurator and security center applet
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Sep '17

10 Sep '17

Feature added by: Michael Calmer (mcalmer) Feature #309381, revision 1 Title: antivirus configurator and security center applet openSUSE-11.3: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Marcin Derlukiewicz (bober10) Description: Antivirus configurator on yast2 security panel right next to the firewall. It should allow to configure several engines and allow to set automatic scans, updates, launch scans for defined folders etc. It should also provide some easy autoconfigurator for apparmor as a behavioral antivirus. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/309381

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[New: openFATE 310787] Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology (Intel(R) TXT) Support
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Sep '17

10 Sep '17

Feature added by: Joseph Cihula (jcihula) Feature #310787, revision 1 Title: Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology (Intel(R) TXT) Support openSUSE-11.4: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Joseph Cihula (jcihula) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Intel(R) Trusted Execution Technology (Intel(R) TXT) provides a hardware dynamic root of trust for measurement (D-RTM). Intel TXT can be used to reduce the trusted computing base (TCB) of system SW such as an OS kernel or hypervisor/VMM. TXT provides platform configuration protection such as memory aliasing checks, register locking, etc. It also provides reset protection via a hardware memory lock and memory scrubbing. In multi-processor systems, Intel TXT strengthens the RAS capability through CPU-rooted measurement of the BIOS and hardware-enforced protections of RAS events. Finally, TXT provides for a platform owner -controlled launch control policy. Intel TXT support consistes of two parts: kernel/VMM enabling and the tboot package. Kernel support involves building the Linux kernel (>= 2.6.35) with the CONFIG_INTEL_TXT flag set. This will also enable it for KVM. The default Xen build already supports TXT. Linux/Xen support actually assumes that TXT is "managed" through the Trusted Boot (tboot) module and thus, the tboot package is also needed for complete support. Tboot is an open source, pre-kernel/VMM module that uses Intel TXT to perform a measured and verified launch of an OS kernel/VMM. Use Case: 1) Disk encryption 2) Hardened local key storage/operations 3) Remote attestation Business case (Partner benefit): openSUSE.org: Enabling Intel TXT in the kernel/VMM will increase the trust and value of the above usage models. And the same value proposition that TXT has for Fedora also applies to openSuSE: http://lwn.net/Articles/382363/ TXT also compliments the OpenTC work being done by/with SuSE. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/310787

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[openFATE 305929] Startup in X even when the xorg.conf fails
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 10 Sep '17

10 Sep '17

Feature added by: Joop Boonen (worldcitizen) Feature #305929, revision 1, last change by Title: Startup in X even when the xorg.conf fails openSUSE-11.2: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important openSUSE-11.3: Unconfirmed Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Joop Boonen (worldcitizen) Description: As there are more and more new users within openSuSE with less knowledge. I was thinking it's an option to boot in Vesa when the original xorg.conf fails. Than the user is still able to fix the problem via a GUI i.e. YaST and SAX. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/305929

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[New: openFATE 320930] Use most as default pager
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 04 Sep '17

04 Sep '17

Feature added by: Steffen Klein (sklein7) Feature #320930, revision 1 Title: Use most as default pager Requested by: Steffen Klein (sklein7) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Use most as default pager Just one reason out of many: Syntax highlighting in man pages makes them much more readable. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/320930

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