Thank you very much for that. Wolfgang, you will find a bugzilla about google-talkplugin direct from google not working with openSUSE 13.1 at <https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=848834> Greg -- Greg Freemyer On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 3:52 PM, Francesco Teodori <francesco.teodori@gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all, due to requests I made source rpms files available for download. Best regards, Francesco
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 9:14 PM, Hans-Peter Jansen <hpj@urpla.net> wrote:
Dear Francesco,
On Freitag, 29. November 2013 18:08:18 Francesco Teodori wrote:
No problem Wolfgang, google talk plugin issue depends on the libudev version you are using. Depending on the packages you have installed, you may experience a sigfault issue. My rpm solves that problem and is optimized for openSUSE: I removed not needed files. About the sources, I do not publish them for lack of space: I found that few people are interested in sources. If you are, I can let you access them. Both skype and googletalk are closed source proprietary software, I patched the rpm package not the core. No risk.
Please be aware, that a _lot_ of people hesitate to install your packages, as it is no pleasure to verify the packages. In fact, that would be more work than grabbing the packages from the original source (that isn't _much_ better security wise, but if _those_ packages are compromised, many people will suffer.
Due to the diversity, it would be hard for a bad guy to hide his offensive code for a longer time. The whole story is a bit different for providers like you. But, don't feel offended, _please_. Your work is highly appreciated. I just want to give you an impression of somebody, that noticed your work, but because I didn't find the src.rpms, I hesitated to install them. I just asked you, what you did.. Remember?
BTW, if you create binary only rpms, it is possible to flag the original source files as nosource (see "The nosource Tag" in http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-inside-tags.html). That way, the src rpms are tiny, and be assured, that a couple of members from this forum and others _will_ contribute to your packages, if you make them available this way.
In order to get back on topic, here's what I did. I installed the original skype rpm, moved the binary to skype.bin, and added this script:
#!/bin/sh export PULSE_LATENCY_MSEC=40 exec skype.bin
As you can see, I even needed to raise the latency value. With 30, on the other day, when I got back from launch to the office, my system produced some strange noise. Stopping skype stopped it. After setting this value to 40, it never happened again (and skype produces many sounds over the day here..)
Thank you for the valuable tip.
Cheers, Pete
Best regards, Francesco
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 5:13 PM, Wolfgang Rosenauer
<wolfgang@rosenauer.org> wrote:
Am 29.11.2013 17:06, schrieb Greg Freemyer:
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 9:06 AM, Francesco Teodori
<francesco.teodori@gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you for your feedback, Marco, I am happy to know that. About your suggestion, skype is a proprietary software, though available for free, so I am not sure it will be possible. About the icon, I am a kde user, I had never noticed that behaviour. Maybe I will try to fix. Ciao e grazie ancora,
Francesco
Francesco,
I assume you know packman has their own instance of OBS with a lower legal bar of entry (I'm not sure why, but it is a fact). It would be great if your opensuse packages could be hosted there.
I found your google-talkplugin RPM as well a couple days ago, and it too would be great to have on packman (if appropriate).
slightly offtopic. I seem to have no issue with the talkplugin provided by Google. Is that one still needed? And another slightly offtopic question. I haven't found any sources for Francesco's packages therefore I'm a bit hesitant to install them (no offense ;-))
Wolfgang
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