October 2014 - openSUSE Project - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[opensuse-project] German City Gummersbach Drops Windows XP and Gets SUSE with a MATE Desktop
by Efstathios Iosifidis 08 Oct '14

08 Oct '14

Read full article http://news.softpedia.com/news/German-City-Gummersbach-Drops-Windows-XP-and… We have our own MATE ready. Here is the Portal https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:MATE I think it's in the official repositories. Test it and report any bugs. Have phun, Stathis -- http://www.iosifidis.gr http://linkedin.eiosifidis.info/ Great leaders don't tell you what to do...They show you how it's done. Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts...absolutely. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Linux Foundation Certification Discount
by Richard Brown 07 Oct '14

07 Oct '14

Hello Geekos, You may be aware the Linux Foundation recently launched two Certification programs - Linux Foundation Certified Sysadmin (LFCS) covering basic system administration - Linux Foundation Certified Engineers (LFCE) covering advanced system administration and engineering skills Full details on the programs is at http://bit.ly/1yKRjxp Unlike other Linux Certification programs the exams for these are offered on several community distributions, Ubuntu, CentOS, and our very own openSUSE 13.1! The Linux Foundation would like to offer openSUSE users a special $100 discount off the price of LFCS or LFCE examinations (33% off the usual $300 price) To get your discount, all you need to do is visit this URL http://bit.ly/1yKRjxp and register for an Exam using the Coupon code: LFopenSUSE100 This Coupon code expires on 7th November and is limited to the first 500 registrations, so I'd recommend registering quickly if you're interested. After registering for the exam, you have 12 months schedule and actually take the exam, so your can register your discount and worry about taking the exam after you've had some time to study. Have a lot of fun! - Richard -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] REMINDER openSUSE Conference 2015 next meeting 7 october 13.00h UTC
by Hans de Raad 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

Dear all! Our next projectteam meeting will be tuesday the 7th of October on 15h CEST (13h UTC), to find out the time in your timezone check: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=7&month=10&year=2014&hour… Agenda: - Status of tooling OSEM and Trello - Announcements - Status of website, etc - Status of artwork - Volunteer team assignments - Promotion on conferences? Please forward this reminder to anyone who might be interested in participating in the organization of this great event, we can never have too many volunteers! We are looking forward to meeting you again at the opensuse channel on Freenode! Best regards, Hans de Raad Robin Edgar -- OpenNovations / DevHdR Van Sevenbergestraat 49 2274PK Voorburg Tel +31 6 83578847 www.hcderaad.nl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Wanted: zypper feature, save list of wanted packages to file instead of downloading them.
by Carlos E. R. 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Could that feature be added to yast/zypper? The idea is that, instead of it doing the actual package download, it generates a list of relative/absolute URLS to download, so that the user can take it to another machine with Internet and do it. There are people without internet on their machines; be it because there is no internet in their area, expensive, but they can use a school or library access, or because the machine is on an isolated intranet section in an organization. I have seen two cases recently in the forum. One of them is behind a proxy that blocks an non firefox agent string, and zypper insists on using "ZYpp". Another one is using plain dialup modem. The current workaround is to mirror the entire needed repos on external hard disks... and these can be huge. - -- Cheers Carlos E. R. (from 13.1 x86_64 "Bottle" at Telcontar) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlQug0kACgkQtTMYHG2NR9XL1QCeIcoHEZow2+R+vIV3w9A72r9j DNwAn2KMZGjB6C5eHLOkb6mUmKdEFRu9 =B9Jf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] Minutes openSUSE Conference 2015 team meeting 23 sept -> next meeting 7 october 13.00h UTC
by Hans de Raad 06 Oct '14

06 Oct '14

Dear all! Today we had a productive kickoff session on IRC, thanks to all participants! The minutes can be found here *: Minutes: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2014/opensuse-proje… Minutes (text): http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2014/opensuse-proje… Log: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/2014/opensuse-proje… * apparently we still have some practicing to do with regards to the IRC tags, but the general outline should be readable. The next meeting will be tuesday the 7th of October on 15h CEST (13h UTC), to find out the time in your timezone check: www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=7&month=10&year=2014&hour… We all have quite a bit of work to do before the next meeting, so don't let me detain you! Best regards, Hans de Raad Robin Edgar -- OpenNovations / DevHdR Van Sevenbergestraat 49 2274PK Voorburg Tel +31 6 83578847 www.hcderaad.nl -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] [reminder] openSUSE Project Meeting tomorrow at 15:00 UTC
by openSUSE Meeting Reminder 03 Oct '14

03 Oct '14

Hello all, The biweekly project meeting will be held tomorrow at 15:00 UTC in #opensuse-project on freenode. Everybody is invited to join and participate! Find out what time the meeting will be in your timezone: http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/fixedtime.html?day=1&month=10&year=2014&h… Agenda of the meeting: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Agenda_for_the_next_meeting If you cannot participate and want a specific question to be answered during the meeting, please add your question to: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Project_meeting#Questions_Section Minutes and logs of previous meetings can be found at: http://community.opensuse.org/meetings/opensuse-project/ Thanks, -- openSUSE Meeting Reminder -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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[opensuse-project] a broad appeal to fix opensuse's package-management's repository/redirector failure & recovery mechasnism
by grantksupport＠operamail.com 02 Oct '14

02 Oct '14

In my experience, package management's routine failure to find/use a 'healthy' repository is a long-standing production problem. I'm requesting a fix. Here's a summary: I run Opensuse 13.1 on numerous machines lsb_release -rd Description: openSUSE 13.1 (Bottle) (x86_64) Release: 13.1 Current count is ~200. The machines are installed at multiple locations around the globe. They're connected to the 'net via a variety of different networks providers. Some of the machines are directly connected to the 'net, some are behind LAN routers, switches & firewalls. Package management for all of the machines is handled exclusively via zypper cli. Each machine has a common core of repositories defined in /etc/zypp/repos.d, and frequently has a number of additional @openSUSE dev (!'home') repos defined. In ALL cases, the default install of repos sets have been installed with the meta-director as baseurl, baseurl=http://download.opensuse.org/... Regular package maintenance consists of zypper clean --all zypper (d)up The maintenance frequency is nominally 1/wk, often 1/dy, and in devs' cases, often more frequent. In virtually ALL cases, the update process regularly fails @ retrieving/refreshing the repos' (meta)data. For example, a typical result is: ... Checking whether to refresh metadata for KDE4-Extra-Unstable Retrieving: repomd.xml .......................................................................................[error] File '/repodata/repomd.xml' not found on medium 'http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Unstable:/Extra/KDE_Current_…' Abort, retry, ignore? [a/r/i/? shows all options] (a): ... This occurs occassionally for any/all repos, whether the standard distribution repos (security, update, etc), core DM (e.g. KDE*) additional repos, or the more 'esoteric' !home OBS-hosted repos (e.g., security:netfilter). The failure rate for overall update/upgrade process attempts is, very roughly, ~15%. The error is NON-recoverable. 'Abort' & 'retry' *never* work. Chats @ IRC re: the issue typically result in the same '(non)responses' : "wait", "works for me", "prove it", etc. The ONLY solution(s) that work are: (1) wait some random amount of time -- typically hours, occassionally days -- until the system magically heals itself, (2) visit the download.opensuse.org link for the repo, click 'details' for a target page, identify a specific working/available repo for the package(s) of interest, and manually edit baseurl= for the problematic repo. Neither is tenable for a reliable operating environment. It is simply unmanageable in either a single, local or widely-distributed environment. (2) is further confounded by the fact that, at any given time, a previously-working, manually-selected repo may, itself, fail, requiring -- yet again -- another manual intervention. Within the scope of our environment, no other distro's package management system has anywhere near the failure rate demonstrated here. (We've ~600+ other machines running a mix of Centos, Fedora, Debian & Ubuntu). This has been occurring for literally years, across multiple openSUSE versions, and remains unaddressed. I know, without any doubt, that others experience similar/frequent failures -- it's been a frequent discussion with our partners, as well as in openSUSE* IRC channels. This needs a fix. As to what, specifically, that fix can/should be -- I'm unclear. If a solution already exists, I'm unaware. One idea -- a fallback mechanism *within* a repos' definition would be useful For example, allow in a given repo's def'n, having multiple, numbered baseurls baseurl1=http://direct/url/to/specific/site/1/... baseurl2=http://direct/url/to/specific/site/2/... baseurl3=http://download.opensuse.org/... ... baseurlN=http://direct/url/to/specific/site/3/... and add fuction to zypper so that for each repo, the baseurls would be tried in order for any given failure. By adding, e.g., a failcount2abort=X to either/both a given repo's defn, or /etc/zypp(er).conf, the overall process could be terminated if there were "X" # of subsequent fails, indicating a likely systemic problem requiring further intervention. I'd appreciate hearing from "those responsible for keeping the redirector & repos working" re: * acknowledgement, or refusal thereof, of the failure issue * clarification as to why it occurs in the first place * ideas/suggestions as to what can/should be done to fix it Thanks. Grant -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner(a)opensuse.org

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