July 2008 - YaST Development - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[yast-devel] buttons buttons buttons
by Martin Schmidkunz 24 Oct '08

24 Oct '08

Hi, when testing openSUSE 11.1/SLES 11 I came across a rather curious situation: many modules have already switched their label from Abort/OK(Accept, Finish...) to the style guide compliant Cancel/OK label. However in every case there is a third, inactive "Back" button included. This doesn't make sense as there is nothing to go back and the dialog is just an overview. I suppose this is due to many of you using wizard.ycp as base template for creating your module. What do you think about using the button box (http://lizards.opensuse.org/2008/08/28/button-order-in-yast-trying-to-make-…) instead of the buttons of wizard.ycp? In my opinion this would have the following advantages: * consistent button order in pop ups and in the module * user would not need to deal with an inactive button * button order in YaST would be consistent with the desktop used by the user What do you think about that issue? Cu, Martin -- Martin Schmidkunz User Experience Specialist martin.schmidkunz(a)novell.com +49 (0) 911 740 53-346 ----------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Novell, Inc. SUSE® Linux Enterprise 10 Your Linux is ready http://www.novell.com/linux -- 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 for (RH)EL5 patch - yast2-2.13.104
by Zhao Shujing 21 Aug '08

21 Aug '08

Hi, The YaST for (RH)EL5 is finished. As I have said before, I would share the patches here. This is the patch of yast2-2.13.104. The patches of the other packages that have been ported will be sent later. Pearly Zhao

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[yast-devel] Wizard module: Dropping deprecated functions
by Lukas Ocilka 04 Aug '08

04 Aug '08

Hi, I've just dropped these deprecated functions from Wizard YCP module: * /ReplaceNextButton/ - replaced with *SetNextButton* * /ReplaceBackButton/ - replaced with *SetBackButton* * /ReplaceAbortButton/ - replaced with *SetAbortButton* These functions have been reporting a warning for a very long time and except one module /yast2-drbd version 2.13/, it is not in use anymore. This hasn't been done just for fun but because of using UI::WizardCommand in there instead of UI::ReplaceWidget. Have a nice day Lukas -- Lukas Ocilka, YaST Developer (xn--luk-gla45d) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ano, ano. Moudry rozkaz. Sam jsem nemel v tech gratulacich jasno.

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[yast-devel] announce: API changes in yast2-users and yast2-ldap
by Jiří Suchomel 04 Aug '08

04 Aug '08

Hi hackers, those of you who are using neither .ldap agent nor any yast2-users API may hit Delete now. For others, I would like to announce that .ldap agent now uses original LDAP names of the object keys that are returned as a result of a search. For example, the search for user object which returned $[ "uidnumber" : 1000, "homedirectory" : "/home/hh", "uid" : "hh" ] now returns $[ "uidNumber" : 1000, "homeDirectory" : "/home/hh", "uid" : "hh" ] This change (required by feature 303596) affects the return value of all .ldap.search calls, so please check your code. I tried to grep for agent usage and update yast2-mail, yast2-ldap-server and yast2-samba-server, see the attached diff. Please review, or at least test it and submit the changes. The change also affects the API of yast2-users, since the module uses for its internal user and group representation the same keys as are defined for LDAP. So if you are using the keys directly, e.g. you are changing user name in this way: Users::SelectUser (1000); Users::EditUser ($[ "uidnumber" : 1111 ]); Users::CommitUser () etc. you have to change the line where the internal key is used, i.e. Users::EditUser ($[ "uidNumber" : 1111 ]); (However, I haven't find anyone using yast2-users module to add or edit users) If anything is not clear enough, please ask. Jiri -- Jiri Suchomel SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: jsuchome(a)suse.cz Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 960 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz

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[yast-devel] DBus/PolicyKit support in Yast in openSUSE-11.1-Alpha1
by Ladislav Slezak 04 Aug '08

04 Aug '08

Hi all! I'd like to inform you about a new feature in Yast in openSUSE-11.1-Alpha1. The feature allows you to configure role based access to yast. The current implementation is limited only to some yast functionality (the SCR part), e.g. it doesn't allow to install packages by a non-root user. WARNING: the DBus support is still in development state, it may be buggy or whatever else... I ask the brave people here to give it a try. See http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/DBus_Integration for more details. There is an example how to enable "time zone change" task for a non-root user. If you find any problem with the DBus integration report it to bugzilla.novell.com and assign the bug to me. Do not forget to attach also the non-root log file (described in the link above). -- Best Regards Ladislav Slezák Yast Developer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: lslezak(a)suse.cz Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 960 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ -- 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] unicode strings in ncurses gui with libyui
by Jan-Simon Möller 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

Hi! I wonder how i can get special characters "äöü" to be displayed in the ncurses gui. I use python-yui (libyui-bindings for python). An example is attached. The "äüö" works for QT UI, but not for ncurses. Any hint in the right direction ?! Best regards Jan-Simon

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[yast-devel] AutoYaST Update Feature
by Arthur Rodrigo Sawazachi Valadares 30 Jul '08

30 Jul '08

Hi, I wanted to ask if there is any initiative on developing a "Distro Update" feature for AutoYaST. I believe that, as of today, AutoYaST can only be used for a new installation, right? Thank You, -- Arthur Rodrigo S Valadares Software Engineer Linux Technology Center - Brasil arthursv(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com -- 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] Re: [opensuse-factory] DBus/PolicyKit support in Yast in openSUSE-11.1-Alpha1
by Ladislav Slezak 29 Jul '08

29 Jul '08

Birger Kollstrand wrote: > Great news! > > I hope package installation by non root users are under consideration? Yes, whole Yast should support role based access in the future, this is just the first step. > If so, can that be made on a rules basis so that ie. my daughter can > update the packages already installed but not add new? Or add packages > from one pattern but not others? Yes, update only role is one of the use cases we would like to support. -- Best Regards Ladislav Slezák Yast Developer ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: lslezak(a)suse.cz Lihovarská 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 960 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz/ -- 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] Keyboard repeat
by Günther J. Niederwimmer 28 Jul '08

28 Jul '08

Hello, is this a bug or a feature ? When I Install a new 11.0 I have no keyboard repeat function ? I "mean" on some places in YaST2 I found it also ? -- mit freundlichen Grüßen / best Regards, Günther J. Niederwimmer -- 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] Bugzilla (novell.com)
by Lukas Ocilka 24 Jul '08

24 Jul '08

$subj doesn't work Software error: ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Can't connect to the database. Error: Too many connections Is your database installed and up and running? Do you have the correct username and password selected in localconfig? I reported it to EMEA helpdesk and they told me it was a known issue and that they had been working on fixing it. Still not fixed tough... Lukas

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[yast-devel] YaST SVN at svn.opensuse.org
by Lukas Ocilka 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Hi, For those who haven't noticed yet: Our SVN repository is currently out of order. Duncan is already pushing maintainers to fix it ... Please, be patient :) Bye L. -- Lukas Ocilka, YaST Developer (xn--luk-gla45d) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ano, ano. Moudry rozkaz. Sam jsem nemel v tech gratulacich jasno.

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[yast-devel] svn build issues (prefix/destdir, libtool)
by Jan-Simon Möller 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Hi ! I want to build yast2 from svn. I tried using y2makeall and manually but I have problems: If i use "--prefix=/home/dl9pf/programme/yast-zypper-snapshot" i get: ----------------------- test -z "/home/dl9pf/programme/yast-zypper-snapshot/lib64" || /bin/mkdir -p "/home/dl9pf/programme/yast-zypper-snapshot/lib64" /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c -p 'liby2.la' '/home/dl9pf/programme/yast-zypper-snapshot/lib64/liby2.la' libtool: install: error: cannot install `liby2.la' to a directory not ending in /home/dl9pf/programme/yast-zypper-snapshot//lib64 make[4]: *** [install-libLTLIBRARIES] Fehler 1 ----------------------- If i use "--prefix=/home/dl9pf/programme/yast-zypper-snapshot/" i get: ------------------------ make[3]: Entering directory `/home/dl9pf/user/svn/yast-svn-trunk/core/agent-dummy/src' make[3]: Für das Ziel »install-exec-am« ist nichts zu tun. test -z "/home/dl9pf/programme/yast-zypper-snapshot//lib64/YaST2/plugin" || /bin/mkdir -p "/home/dl9pf/programme/yast-zypper-snapshot//lib64/YaST2/plugin" /bin/sh ../../libtool --mode=install /usr/bin/install -c -p 'libpy2ag_dummy.la' '/home/dl9pf/programme/yast-zypper-snapshot//lib64/YaST2/plugin/libpy2ag_dummy.la' libtool: install: error: cannot install `libpy2ag_dummy.la' to a directory not ending in /usr/lib64/YaST2/plugin make[3]: *** [install-pluginLTLIBRARIES] Fehler 1 ------------------------ So either way fails - chould someone check this ? Best regards Jan-Simon -- 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] RC: Czech YaST2 team (Prague) meeting 2008-07-15
by Josef Reidinger 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Present: aschnell, jreidinger, jsrain, jsuchome, juhliarik, kmachalkova, locilka, lslezak, mvidner, mzugec Absent: jkupec Minutes: jreidinger next minutes: jkupec Partitioner ------------------- - work on redesign continues and merge is expected within 4 weeks (aschnell) - default values( e.g. default filesystem ) for partitioner are correctly written to sysconfig/partitioner (kmachalkova) Bootloader ------------------- - perl-bootloader dependency on perl-gettext has been removed (jreidinger) network ------------------- - Networking in the installation phase has a new wiki documentation ( http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/installation-network ) (mzugec) Installation (locilka) ---------------------- - Enhanced product control-file documentation (new features) - DPMS and Sceen-saver turned off (FATE #304395) - Automatic Configuration definition moved to control file to be possibly reused by firstboot (FATE #303939). other ------------------- - work on yast communication via dbus continues with firewall module (lslezak) - fixed icons warning (locilka) - Fixed and unified Popup YCP library to show icons again... (locilka) - Added 'runlevel 4' support into Runlevel Editor (FATE #303798) (locilka) -- 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] Re: announce: API changes in yast2-users and yast2-ldap
by Lukas Ocilka 23 Jul '08

23 Jul '08

Christoph Thiel wrote: >> Which effectively means none of YaST modules using .ldap will work in >> Alpha1 because of the timing of that change (API change 2 hours before >> submission deadline). We were unable to change our code in time. >> >> Affected packages: yast2-ldap-server, yast2-mail, yast2-samba-server, >> yast2-dns-server, yast2-dhcp-server. >> >> You might have changed the packages yourself and directly submit instead >> of creating patches. Anyway, thanks for the patches. > > I guess we can live with this for Alpha1. Do you have a bug # on this, so I > can reference it? Not yet, sorry, I'm not sure what the change is exactly all about and what does or doesn't do. All in all it seems that the LDAP keys have only changed capitalization: "someSpecialKey" instead of "somespecialkey". It's been changed because of FATE #303596, reported as bug #342933. Let's wait for maintainer to give us more information. Maybe everything but YaST works fine... L.

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[yast-devel] build failures with yast2-{core,devtools}-2.17.2
by Martin Vidner 18 Jul '08

18 Jul '08

Hi hackers, you have probably noticed the many build failures of yast packages. I am already fixing most of them. The gory details follow if you're interested. The change causing them was intended to fix the annoyingly long warnings about a deprecated C++ header in YCode.h, <ext/hash_map>. It turned out that while hash_map is deprecated, its replacement <unordered_map> is not standard yet, so I had to feed g++ with -std=c++0x. One problem with that was that I incorrectly assumed that all packages using YAST2-CHECKS-PROGRAM in configure.in.in depend on yast2-core. That is fixed in yast2-devtools-2.17.3. Another problem is that using the newer C++ standard subtly shuffles the library includes, which reveals errors that previously went unnoticed. For example I had a few #include <algorithm> missing in core itself. And actually it is not -std=c++0x but -std=gnu++0x because we use the typeof gnu extension in libzypp headers. Fixed in yast2-core-2.17.3. -- Martin Vidner, YaST developer http://en.opensuse.org/User:Mvidner Kuracke oddeleni v restauraci je jako fekalni oddeleni v bazenu -- 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] Supporting 80x24 resolution?
by Katarina Machalkova 18 Jul '08

18 Jul '08

Hi, hackers I know this is not extremely popular topic to discuss, but as we keep getting new bug reports almost every other week that certain module has part of its widgets invisible in ncurses 80x24 screen, I can't help mentioning it *) So far, minimum supported screen resolution has been 80 columns x 25 rows for the text mode, probably due to serial console screen size. Now the thing is, many terminal emulators (xterm, Gnome terminal, to mention just a few) have 80x24 as their default size. Especially for inexperienced user it might be hard to figure out that (s)he needs to enlarge the screen to get access to the full functionality of the module. Any comment on claiming 80x24 as minimum supported resolution (and mentioning it in the style-guide)? Frankly, I have no clue how many yast modules would need to be adjusted, so far I know about network and (afair) ldap-client, and if it is a good idea at all, I'm just trying to gather some feedback. B. (*) I admit this is also partly my fault as I introduced the lower contrast status bar with function keys, taking yet another line off the screen -- \\\\\ Katarina Machalkova \\\\\\\__o YaST developer __\\\\\\\'/_ & hedgehog painter

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[yast-devel] YaST for (RH)EL5 patch - yast2-network-2.13.98 and yast2-nfs-client-2.13.4
by Zhao Shujing 18 Jul '08

18 Jul '08

Hi, The attached are the patches of yast2-network and yast2-nfs-client. There are no source changes at the other packages that I have ported to (RH)EL5. They are just rebuilt.

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[yast-devel] Article: Eyetracking the openSUSE 11.0 installer
by Lukas Ocilka 17 Jul '08

17 Jul '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi, See an article about openSUSE 11.0 installer seen by an eye-tracking device with diagrams and their analysis. http://fnmueller.wordpress.com/2008/07/17/eyetracking-the-opensuse-110-inst… Such pieces of work could help YaST developers to make their dialogs better understandable. If only I had such a device + sw :) ;) Well done! Bye Lukas -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.9 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iEYEARECAAYFAkh/mUwACgkQVSqMdRCqTizLGwCeKQASOJIYbMfxHaT+25laTG31 I30An3QjwNH89RJIZ8TBm1LsaeLKWcIJ =zPMj -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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] Color theme for textmode YaST - wiki page
by Gabriele Mohr 15 Jul '08

15 Jul '08

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi all, I have recently added an article to openSUSE wiki about setting the color theme for the textmode YaST, see http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Tips#Color_theme_for_textmode_YaST. It describes how to set the color theme manually (the feature was added by Bubli and is available since 10.3) and how to create a customized theme by starting a style edit menu. Greetings Gabi - -- Gabriele Mohr SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) Maxfeldstr. 5 Tel: +49 911 740 53 362 90409 Nürnberg Email: gs(a)suse.de - ----------------------------------------------------------------- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4-svn0 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFIczMvzwhO63ql6h0RAs57AKCbxGf4VTBKASpuU8KZVLMPLEs64wCfSTnq nZro+ZYk+wVNO6yDdw6Wgwg= =rml8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- 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] y2debug in Perl modules
by Kevin James 15 Jul '08

15 Jul '08

Hi, Is it possible to set a specific entry under [Debug] in /etc/YaST2/log.conf to enable debug messages from perl modules? I am using y2debug in a perl module and it only shows up in y2log if I debug everything with Y2DEBUG=1, and the entry shows up prefixed with [-e]. I tried "-e = true" in log.conf but it doesn't work. Cheers, KEv. -- Kevin James Applied Technology Senior Strategist Novell Global Enablement ------------------------ Novell, Inc. http://www.novell.com -- 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] YaST2 Gtk suggestions
by Stanislav Visnovsky 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

Hi Ricardo! Have you seen this page? http://abock.org/~aaron/yast.html What's your view on the spacing and padding suggestions? Stano -- 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] UI::GetDisplayInfo doesn't contain "HasLocalImageSupport" (anymore?)
by Lukas Ocilka 11 Jul '08

11 Jul '08

Hi, Today I was debugging how to show icons in Report module because I remembered seeing them while calling, e.g., Report::Error() functions in the past. Then I found that *UI::GetDisplayInfo* doesn't return *HasLocalImageSupport* key and some modules rely on that information: seven:/usr/share/YaST2 # grep -r "HasLocalImageSupport" * | grep -v "^Binary file" clients/hwinfo.ycp: if ((boolean) ui_info["HasLocalImageSupport"]:false == false) return `Empty(); modules/SignatureCheckDialogs.ycp: has_local_image_support = ui_capabilities["HasLocalImageSupport"]:false; modules/SourceManagerSLP.ycp: if ((boolean) ui_info["HasLocalImageSupport"]:false == false) return `Empty(); modules/SlideShowCallbacks.ycp: if ( ui_capabilities[ "HasLocalImageSupport" ]:false ) (I've already fixed the Popup library...) This is what UI::GetDisplayInfo currently returns for me: $[ "Colors":16777216, "DefaultHeight":735, "DefaultWidth":1176, "Depth":24, "HasAnimationSupport":true, "HasFullUtf8Support":true, "HasIconSupport":true, "HasImageSupport":true, "Height":1050, "LeftHandedMouse":false, "RichTextSupportsTable":true, "TextMode":false, "Width":1680 ] Has the key been dropped or changed to "HasImageSupport" or "HasIconSupport"? Is there a documentation for the keys returned? Well, there is something, I wrote that examples there :) http://forgeftp.novell.com/yast/doc/SL11.1/tdg/YCP_UI_GetDisplayInfo.html but it might be helpful to describe every single key. Any volunteer, please? Thx && Bye Lukas -- Lukas Ocilka, YaST Developer (xn--luk-gla45d) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ano, ano. Moudry rozkaz. Sam jsem nemel v tech gratulacich jasno.

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[yast-devel] module icons
by Kevin James 08 Jul '08

08 Jul '08

Hi, Are there any examples of how to put an icon for your module into the RPM package for a module? All the icons for the modules that ship with the distro seem to be in a separate RPM, but I want to package an icon with my custom module. Cheers, KEv. -- Kevin James Applied Technology Senior Strategist Novell Global Enablement ------------------------ Novell, Inc. http://www.novell.com -- 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 development on SLES
by Kevin James 03 Jul '08

03 Jul '08

Hi all, I've been developing a couple of YaST modules for a project we're doing, and I've been doing that on my laptop running openSuSE 11.0. I transferred the source over to a SLES 10 box I was planning to do the demo on, but it wouldn't compile. I found that this is because yast2-devtools wasn't installed, (as well as YPX not being installed), but I can't find either of these packages on the installation media for SLES. Does anyone know where I can find these from? Or suggest a better method of development - maybe I should be creating an RPM on my dev. machine and just installing that on SLES? Cheers, KEv. -- Kevin James Applied Technology Senior Strategist Novell Global Enablement ------------------------ Novell, Inc. http://www.novell.com -- 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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