November 2016 - openSUSE Features - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[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 322072] support multiple back references in issue_trackers
by fate_noreply＠suse.de 31 Jan '18

31 Jan '18

Feature added by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Feature #322072, revision 1 Title: support multiple back references in issue_trackers Buildservice: New Priority Requester: Important Requested by: Ludwig Nussel (lnussel) Partner organization: openSUSE.org Description: Someone thought it's a good idea to refer to github issues as gh#project/repo#number according to the packaging guidelines: https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_Patches_guidelines#Current_set_o… OBS however only supports one capture group in the parser. It needs to support multiple and allow to place them arbitrarily in the output. -- openSUSE Feature: https://features.opensuse.org/322072

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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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