February 2007 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] Feedback for openSUSE 10.2 and preparing for 10.3
by Andreas Jaeger 27 Apr '07

27 Apr '07

We've briefly discussed during the last IRC meeting about what went bad in 10.2 and how we can do this better for future products, especially 10.3. I'm mainly interested in process feedback - and not on feedback that package x is broken (unless that shows a process problem). So, let's discuss what we can do better for our next distro, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE Linux Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-project] Changes in Bugzilla
by Andreas Jaeger 24 Mar '07

24 Mar '07

I'd like to inform you about the following two changes to bugzilla: openSUSE 10.3 ============= We have created a new product and opened it. Some of the bugs that will not be fixed for 10.2 are moved over to that product. SUSE Linux 10.0 =============== Our policy is to only fix security bugs for released products and we fix the occasional critical bugs. Security bugs are reported by the security team and with 10.1 out and 10.2 nearly finished, we're not fixing critical bugs anymore so we do not really need a public bugzilla here. We do see some misuse especially with 10.0 where people report bugs against different products or ask for general help and have therefore decided to make it non-public tomorrow. SUSE Linux 10.1 will stay open for now - and openSUSE 10.2 is the product we're working on, Andreas -- Andreas Jaeger, aj(a)suse.de, http://www.suse.de/~aj/ SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstr. 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany GPG fingerprint = 93A3 365E CE47 B889 DF7F FED1 389A 563C C272 A126

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[opensuse-project] Branding Overview
by Alexander Schaber 03 Mar '07

03 Mar '07

Hello list, is there a way to expand this list [1] so that it includes older versions of SUSE as well? [1] http://en.opensuse.org/Branding_Overview -- Greetings Alexander Schaber --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Sponsoring for and on openSUSE
by Michael Loeffler 26 Feb '07

26 Feb '07

Hi all, I asked in our last IRC meeting for your opinion on getting sponsors for openSUSE. To reach all of you I ask additionally on the mailinglist. We're currently looking for sponsors for the Build Service - hardware, bandwith and money. That's to increase performance and get broader backing for the whole project. The sponsors obviously want something back - presence. We'd like to offer them logo visibility at opensuse.org, build.opensuse.org and some high frequent pages like the downlaod pages. We'd reserve one place for a logo which is used randomley by all sponsors and won't be flashy, blinking images or similar. And we're talking only to companies in the IT environment. Let me know what you're thinking about it. Regards Michael -- Michael Löffler, Product Management SUSE LINUX Products GmbH - Nürnberg - AG Nürnberg - HRB 16746 - GF: Markus Rex --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] ntfs-3g 1.0
by Silviu Marin-Caea 22 Feb '07

22 Feb '07

http://www.ntfs-3g.org/index.html Can you consider adding this to the distribution? I'm writing to -project@ because this is not "just another package" but rather adds functionality that benefits a lot of people. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] survey
by Martin Schlander 19 Feb '07

19 Feb '07

I just did the survey on the openSUSE frontpage, it's very interesting. http://en.opensuse.org/Welcome_to_openSUSE.org Sure hope the full results will become publicly available.. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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Re: [opensuse-project] 10.3 Alpha1 ISO Metalinks
by albryan＠comcast.net 17 Feb '07

17 Feb '07

From: Francis Giannaros <francisg(a)gmail.com> > On Thursday 15 February 2007 20:19:18 albryan(a)comcast.net wrote: > > .metalinks were ready for 10.3 Alpha1 ISOs at > > http://download.packages.ro/metalink/opensuse/ as soon as the mirrors > > synced. Note, these .metalinks do not yet contain repair information. (Only > > full file checksums - if someone wants to hack the perl script to include > > repair info, let me know!) > > > > .metalinks (for 10.2 and 10.3 Alpha1, i386 so far but x86_64 in a few > > minutes) with repair information are at: > > > > http://www.metalinker.org/samples.html#opensuse > > Nice stuff. I just did a download of the 5 CDs and it went wonderfully. > > Hopefully this time round we/openSUSE can be making our own metalinks, too. I > might edit the development release page in a bit to update it with the new > table (like the released version has) which is prettier. Great, thats good to hear! If the .metalinks with repair info & aria2 0.10.1+ are used, there should never be an error in the finished files (if there is, its a bug in the program and we need to know about it). That alone makes it preferable to http/ftp downloads which might have errors. If openSUSE makes it's own metalinks, that would be great. Bouncer and RoPkg::Metalink are options, but it might be simpler just to use the command line tools (http://metalinks.sourceforge.net/) since the ISOs aren't updated constantly. If you want to have the chunk checksums/repair info in there, you need the files locally to scan (or I guess running on a mirror that has the files). Anything I can do to help, let me know! I'm interested in other people's comments on how we can improve the download process too. -- (( Anthony Bryan )) Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] UDF -- packet writing
by Silviu Marin-Caea 16 Feb '07

16 Feb '07

As a nice-to-have feature, could packet writing be implemented in an easy to use manner? Like, with automounting and right-click in konqueror and choose "Format UDF" of CDRW media etc etc. Right now it can be done only with some command lines, AFAIK. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] 10.3 Alpha1 ISO Metalinks
by albryan＠comcast.net 16 Feb '07

16 Feb '07

.metalinks were ready for 10.3 Alpha1 ISOs at http://download.packages.ro/metalink/opensuse/ as soon as the mirrors synced. Note, these .metalinks do not yet contain repair information. (Only full file checksums - if someone wants to hack the perl script to include repair info, let me know!) .metalinks (for 10.2 and 10.3 Alpha1, i386 so far but x86_64 in a few minutes) with repair information are at: http://www.metalinker.org/samples.html#opensuse Besides individual .metalinks for each ISO, there is also a .metalink for all 5 CD ISOs. The latest aria2 (0.10.1, RPMs graciously provided at http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/rpm-navigation.php?cat=/Network/aria2 ) can autocorrect/repair metalink downloads if they contain chunk checksums. Basically, your finished download should have no errors when it's done, similar to rsync and BitTorrent downloads. And it should be pretty fast (depending on your connection speed) by using multiple mirrors. >From Tatsuhiro Tsujikawa, aria2 author: "As of 0.10.0 aria2 supports chunk checksum in Metalink: it validates chunk checksums while downloading a file like BitTorrent. This gives safer and more reliable download experience. 1) Before dowload begins: Use this to correct damaged downloads. 2) Realtime hash checking: Validate checksum on the fly like BitTorrent." Some people had file fragmentation issues if their filesystem was reiserfs. It would be good to have more comments from people using reiserfs to see if --file-allocation=prealloc fixes the issue. Please post bug reports or comments at http://aria2.sourceforge.net/ to help improve it. --file-allocation=METHOD Specify file allocation method. METHOD is either none or prealloc. none doesnt pre-allocate file space. prealloc pre-allocates file space before download begins. This may take some time depending on the size of file. Default: none -- (( Anthony Bryan )) Metalink [ http://www.metalinker.org ] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] OpenSUSE @ FOSDEM 2007: schedule
by Pascal Bleser 10 Feb '07

10 Feb '07

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 The schedule is online: http://fosdem.org/2007/schedule/devroom/opensuse Spread the word, come enjoy one of the best and most appreciated FOSS events in the world along with >4000 visitors from all around Europe (and further) ;) More about FOSDEM: http://fosdem.org/2007/about/fosdem cheers - -- -o) Pascal Bleser http://linux01.gwdg.de/~pbleser/ /\\ <pascal.bleser(a)skynet.be> <guru(a)unixtech.be> _\_v The more things change, the more they stay insane. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFFzkcWr3NMWliFcXcRAlH/AJ93/ssV/xZima3HgKUlGO7VeHH1vQCffNgl 3e4NmkZOapeYh1CWIbaTxgU= =0MQ+ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-project+help(a)opensuse.org

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