openSUSE Packaging March 2007

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how to add documentation to the help center

by Günter Dannoritzer

Hi, I have built a package that contains some doxygen generated html files and now I am wondering whether there is a way that I can put them in a place with the build process that would make them show up in the help system? Now I know this would depend whether KDE or Gnome is used. Is there some joint way under openSuse that makes it work for either way? Is there any documentation available about that? -- Contains a difficult search term to Google for ;) -- Thanks, Guenter --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help(a)opensuse.org

13 years, 8 months

ATTN: The set of default installed packages at build time is to be reduced

by Richard Guenther

Hi, as a heads-up (and for those curious why your package may be / has been touched) there is an upcoming change in the set of packages installed by default in the build environments. This can affect your packages BuildRequires as well as requirements of pre-/post-install scripts. The exact set of packages to be removed is not yet set in stone, but expect the following to go: - flex, bison - gdbm-devel - ncurses-devel - libzio and the following that may affect pre-/post-install scripts (but in general shouldn't): - pwdutils + its dependencies (openldap*, openssl, cyrus-sasl, ...) - bind-libs, bind-utils - cvs - e2fsprogs - libnscd - unzip and debugging tools such as - procps + friends - strace - vim In general we will take care of required package updates (this is why your package is being touched). With best regards, Richard. -- Richard Guenther <rguenther(a)suse.de> Novell / SUSE Labs SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nuernberg - AG Nuernberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help(a)opensuse.org

13 years, 8 months

Package Problems with GNOME:/UNSTABLE gimp-unstable/ufraw-gimp, pfstmo

by Roman Fietze

Hello, Who, what (e.g. OpenSUSE Bugzilla) or what mailing list would be the correct place to report the following small problems: - Installing gimp-unstable from GNOME:/UNSTABLE for OpenSUSE 10.2 deselects any installed version of ufraw-gimp due to an unresolved dependency: gimp-2.0. I removed this dependency from ufraw and everything is fine, this was easier in terms of compile time than adding gimp-2.0 to gimp-unstable as in GNOME:/STABLE. - pfstmo_durand02 part of the package pfstmo in multimedia:/photo for OpenSUSE 10.2, which seems to be a CVS version, does not work properly (vector memory error), whereas the current CVS works, this package cries for a very simple update, which is what I created and added to my local repository to temporarily fix that probelm. Thank you very much for any information. Roman -- Roman Fietze Telemotive AG Büro Mühlhausen Breitwiesen 73347 Mühlhausen Tel.: +49(0)7335/18493-45 http://www.telemotive.de

13 years, 8 months

[autobuild] How to make sure nothing changed with the changed build environment

by Richard Guenther

With the changed build-root setup and a non-failing package you can check if unwanted changes were introduced by the last build using the attached script which takes a directory as argument and tries to 'cleverly' compare old and new logs. Example usage: > cd /work/built/dists/all/x86_64/packs-x86_64 > ~/compare-log.sh libzio libzio =========== /work/built/dists/all/x86_64/packs-x86_64/libzio/libzio-0.4 No reference for libzio (there's no /work/built/dists/all/x86_64/packs-x86_64/libzio/libzio-0.4/OLD/ log) Richard. -- Richard Guenther <rguenther(a)suse.de> Novell / SUSE Labs SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nuernberg - AG Nuernberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex

13 years, 8 months

trigger_false_failures

by Stanislav Brabec

Hallo. Because I have a big problem with false failures in the Build Service, which make nearly impossible to make complete rebuild of GNOME:UNSTABLE and I already spent several hours by clicking to "trigger rebuild", I wrote a simple script, which auto-triggers false failures. >From my experiments, it seems to be optimal to call this script every 30 minutes or so. Longer period may cause repeated triggering of too many dependent packages, shorter period may trigger packages, which not yet properly updated its status. Note: I am not able to trigger packages with "+" in name in any way (nor via). It seems to be a bug of Build Service, e. g.: osc rebuildpac GNOME:UNSTABLE libxml++ i586 does not work, web interface does not work as well. -- Best Regards / S pozdravem, Stanislav Brabec software developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s. r. o. e-mail: sbrabec(a)suse.cz Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 966 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/

13 years, 8 months

Error Creating LiveDVD

by Ladislav Michnovič

Hello, I've tried to create LiveDVD as described on the page http://en.opensuse.org/LiveDVD. It ended with this error : /usr/share/kiwi/tools/createLiveCD Mar-27 15:21 <1> : Reading image description... done Mar-27 15:21 <1> : Setting up package manager: smart done Mar-27 15:21 <1> : Setting RPM signature check to: False done Mar-27 15:21 <1> : Adding local smart channel: kiwi1-3622 done Mar-27 15:21 <1> : Initializing image system on: /tmp/mydvd... failed Mar-27 15:23 <3> : Updating cache... Updating cache... ######################################## [100%] Fetching information for 'kiwi1-3622'... -> http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/.../media media ######################################## [ 25%] -> http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/SL-OSS-factory/.../content content ######################################## [ 50%] -> http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/.../packages packages ######################################## [ 75%] -> http://ftp.opensuse.org/pub/opensuse/distribution/.../packages.en packages.en ######################################## [100%] Updating cache... ######################################## [100%] Channels have 5318 new packages. Saving cache... Loading cache... Updating cache... ######################################## [100%] Computing transaction... error: Can't install rpm-python-4.4.2-98@i586: no package provides libpopt.so.1 Mar-27 15:23 <1> : Removing smart channel(s): kiwi1-3622 done Mar-27 15:23 <3> : Base initialization failed failed Mar-27 15:23 <3> : KIWI exited with error(s) done -- Btw. Is there an option how to create ISO image with packages which I choose? Any documentation how this works? Regards Ladislav. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help(a)opensuse.org

13 years, 8 months

/etc/sysconfig metadata documentation

by Andreas Hanke

Hi, I wonder if there is any documentation or specification about the metadata comments in /etc/sysconfig files. The only bit of documentation I could find is the fillup man page, but it doesn't say anything useful. What I'm looking for is information about the following things: ## Config: ispell ## ServiceRestart: bluetooth ## ServiceReload: autofs ## Command: /sbin/mkinitrd ## PreSaveCommand: /sbin/rcsyslog status && /sbin/rcsyslog stop In particular: - What exactly do these keys mean; - Are there any other keys not mentioned here; - How are they applied, i.e. only to a specific sysconfig setting, or all settings within a specific file or path, or something else, can this be influenced somehow, e.g. does it make a difference where these keys are placed within the sysconfig files. - In which order are these things executed? Is the order fixed or can the packager influence it according to the order it is written in the sysconfig file? The reason I'm asking is that I think several sysconfig files have metadata which are not up to date or not complete. E.g. many SuSEconfig modules have been removed without a replacement, so the sysconfig metadata can be removed as well. Others have been replaced, but without reflecting the change in the /etc/sysconfig files. Andreas Hanke --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help(a)opensuse.org

13 years, 8 months

bzip2 has been split into bzip2, bzip2-doc, libbz2 and libbz2-devel

by Richard Guenther

So you might want to check if your package BuildRequires needs adjustment to add libbz2-devel. In particular if you are using libzio. Thanks and sorry for possible breakage, Richard. -- Richard Guenther <rguenther(a)suse.de> Novell / SUSE Labs SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nuernberg - AG Nuernberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help(a)opensuse.org

13 years, 8 months

Please consider including VirtualBox with openSUSE 10.3

by Alexey Eremenko

Hi all ! Please consider including VirtualBox package with openSUSE 10.3. I'm heavy emulators/virtualization user, so this addition would be important for me. openSUSE already includes many products from that field, including Bochs, Qemu, DOSBox, Xen, ... so why not add this one too ? This new virtualization solution appeared on the market only recently, in 2007 as open-source GPL'ed product. I think it is better than the currently existing Open-Source solutions. This product is very high-class and an excellent competitor to proprietary software such as VMware, and so, the least we can do as a community, is to support this effort, and build a competition to the very pricey&proprietary VMware. On my side, I have made a push of VirtualBox into 10.3 - I did it by submitting VirtualBox detailed step-by-step setup article into Lessons for Lizards, so if the package gets included it will have documentation already available. So openSUSE 10.3 final release has a good chance to have both the package and my documentation available same-day-release. I want the final users of 10.3 to get maximum. NOTE: There is an official documentation available, but it deals poorly with SUSE-specific issues, so my documentation has an added extra-value. You can read my article here: (NOTE: link will expire soon, so if you have problem email me, and I will send you the article directly) http://download.yousendit.com/6E957103384F0318 Alternatively, you can download it from LfL SVN. VirtualBox Home Page: www.virtualbox.org What do you think of it? -Alexey Eremenko --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help(a)opensuse.org

13 years, 8 months

NTFS-3G driver and openSUSE 10.3 integration

by Alexey Eremenko

hi all ! I really would like to see full integration between openSUSE 10.3 and the new NTFS-3G driver (with good Yast support of the new driver). What do you think of it? -- -Alexey Eremenko "Technologov" --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-packaging+help(a)opensuse.org

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