May 2007 - YaST Development - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[yast-devel] Help required during Manual install partition proposal (Fwd)
by Martin Vidner 09 May '07

09 May '07

Forwarding from the old list... Gururajan, see http://en.opensuse.org/YaST_Mailing_Lists for subscription info on this one. Thomas or Arvin? ↓ ----- Forwarded message from Gururajan R <rgururajan(a)novell.com> ----- Date: Mon, 07 May 2007 14:11:32 -0600 From: Gururajan R <rgururajan(a)novell.com> Subject: [Yast-dev] Help required during Manual install partition proposal Hello All, I am working on Linux installation. I have encountered a problem for which I need your suggestion. Problem Statement: Partition proposal goes for a toss during manual installation. Partition proposal that we need. We need the partition proposal as follow. boot( minimal), swap(2 times the RAM), root and COS(this is our own filesystem) each getting 50% of the remaining respectively. Where the problem occurs: During installation in manual mode, the partition proposal on the UI is shown with the right percentage for each partition as mentioned above . But once I enter custom partitioning menu, the start and end region of boot, swap, root takes up all the disk region leaving out COS, hence we dont get the right proposal when we move forward in the installation. Can you suggest me some methods that I can use to get the partition proposal right. Further we will be adding another partition to the existing ones named /var. Since maximum partitions that we can have is 4 and we already have 4 as mentioned above. How can we add /var partition. Any thoughts or suggestion will be helpful. Waiting for your reply. Regards, Gururajan Gururajan R, Senior Software Engineer, RGururajan(a)novell.com, Phone - 080 41869000 Extn - 3301 Novell, Inc. SUSE* Linux Enterprise 10 Your Linux is ready* www.novell.com/linux BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:2.1 X-GWTYPE:USER FN:Gururajan R ORG:;WORKGRP - IDC EMAIL;WORK;PREF;NGW:RGururajan@novell.com N:R;Gururajan TITLE:Senoir Software Engineer ADR;DOM;WORK;PARCEL;POSTAL:;BLR-1-100;49/1 & 49/3 Garvebhavi Palya LABEL;DOM;WORK;PARCEL;POSTAL;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:Gururajan R=0A= BLR-1-100=0A= 49/1 & 49/3 Garvebhavi Palya END:VCARD _______________________________________________ Yast-dev mailing list Yast-dev(a)forge.novell.com http://forge.novell.com/mailman/listinfo/yast-dev ----- End forwarded message ----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help(a)opensuse.org

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[yast-devel] yast-gtk interface
by Ricardo Cruz 09 May '07

09 May '07

Hi there, Currently, yast-gtk looks similar to GtkAssistant (old GnomeDruid) used by Evolution, the Gnome Add printer tool, etc. However, Yast doesn't act as a wizard sometimes, and just as a hybrid mosttimes. So, Jakub Steiner has proposed cleaning it up to this very simplistic form (to match the other Gnome tools from the control panel): http://www.alunos.dcc.fc.up.pt/~c0607045/trash/yast/face-mockup.svg Since we are at it, we might just as well think of the installer. I thought of this: http://www.alunos.dcc.fc.up.pt/~c0607045/trash/yast/installer-mockup.svg It seems unlikely to have -gtk adopted as the installer any time soon (or late :)), but it might still be nice to have something more fancy that people could activate for their normal use. These are SVG, very easy to edit on Inkscape. Notice we can provide optional faces. Cheers, Ricardo -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help(a)opensuse.org

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[yast-devel] Width of entries in .changes files...
by Lukas Ocilka 04 May '07

04 May '07

Hi, Just a small note: File with changes of the package (AKA .changes file) has a "strongly recommended" width (maximal text width). You can follow lines created by the vc script to be safe: This is the exact line length: --- cut --- ------------------------------------------------------------------- --- cut --- Such entries had better contain a newline: --- cut --- - Add neuw modul file MailAlias.ycp (269867 - build cycle between yast2-users and yast2-mail) --- cut --- Please, don't step over the line width unless really necessary. Thanks Lukas -- Lukas Ocilka, YaST Developer (xn--luk-gla45d) ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s. r. o., Lihovarska 1060/12, Praha 9, Czech Republic

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[yast-devel] Obsoletes/Provides in yast2 packages
by Lars Rupp 04 May '07

04 May '07

Hi "Yasties" :-) Looking at some of your specfiles, I found: - lots of Obsoletes/Provides tags with no version numbers. Can you please have a look at http://en.opensuse.org/Package_Dependencies and adapt your specfiles? - lots of "old Provides/Obsoletes" for packages which exist in 7.0 or earlier. Can you remove the Provides/Obsoletes for such old packages (see packagers(a)opensuse.org)? Please keep in mind that we currently have support for SLES8 - but not for any version <= 8.0 (This is not a real bug. But I think we can "implement" this for 10.3.) Thanks in advance, Lars -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help(a)opensuse.org

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[yast-devel] Plans for alternates to YCP
by Justin Haygood 02 May '07

02 May '07

Is there any plans for having alternate scripting langauges for YaST other than YCP? I think this would be a killer feature for developers, so that regular Joes who know programming can make YaST modules much easier, using languages such as Python, Perl, or even something like ECMAScript.... Of course, YCP will still be available to people who want it. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe(a)opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help(a)opensuse.org

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