January 2009 - YaST Development - openSUSE Mailing Lists

[yast-devel] Prague YaST team meeting 2008-01-29
by Michal Zugec 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

Minutes of Prague YaST Team Meeting: 2009-01-29 =============================================== http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Team Present: jkupec, jreidinger, jsrain, jsuchome, juhliarik, kmachalkova, locilka, lslezak, mvidner, mzugec Minutes: mzugec Next Minutes: jkupec add-on-creator -------------- Generate metadata for release packages (bnc#466327) zypp (zypper/libzypp?) ---- - API for reading history log - zypp credential manager for zypp bootloader ---------- - bootloader now uses internal map instead of direct output from udevinfo - better to debug - because of internal bootloader metadata, we can drop metadata from ycp UI -- - QSplitter - in Qt installation user can hide "installation steps" (submitted for 11.2) - ncurses - improved speed of drawing Table (scrolling is still slow) partitioner ----------- - implemented deleting of all disk partitions (all logical volumes in a volume group) at once. y2-webpin --------- - full history, not only last search + tabbed browsing. See also: http://hedgehogpainter.livejournal.com/4686.html sw_single --------- - new client for sw_single in addon (open module with selected packages, patterns, ... etc) - there is option in sysconfig to keep opening or close UI after install selected packages http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-factory/2009-01/msg00492.html backup ------ - new agent .system.freespace (in package yast2) Installation ------------ - new InstError YCP module for reporting errors during installation (also contains links to Bugreporting Howto, Bugzilla...) - currently used for catching inst_finish scripts errors ssh --- - removed PasswordAuth option from UI sound ----- - in case of several channels with same name, yast will add also index as part of identifier url --- - URL.ycp now has support for IPv6 D-bus ----- - yast webservice - API to call (via) D-bus (?) button labels ---------------- For dialog below we have new function Wizard::OpenCancelOKDialog() : http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Style_Guide#Single_Configuration.2FOverview.2FE… -- 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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Fwd: Re: [yast-devel] Is there a way to turn off/ reduce output in autoyast?
by Roberto Angelino 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

>>> On 1/30/2009 at 6:28 AM, in message <49830E92.7060902(a)suse.cz>, Lukas Ocilka <lukas.ocilka(a)suse.cz> wrote: > Stefan Hundhammer wrote: >> The NCurses library is really efficient at that: For every screen operation, > >> it sends only the difference between the old screen content and the new >> screen content to the terminal (plus escape sequences to position the cursor > >> etc.). > > Hi, > > Maybe if it comes to "initializing the sources..." - downloading several > files withs lots of Progress screens - then it sends quite of lot of > screen changes per second. Maybe I'm wrong but this is my feeling from > how I understand Roberto's question. Yes. They are asking if there's a way to limit/reduce/elliminate all that output. Let me explain why? Their systems are multi-node systems. So they could be upgrading anywhere from 8-300 nodes simultaneously. So no one is going to be looking at these installs. And to make matters worse, some of their customers only allow say 20/30 minutes to upgrade a node because their core critical business is dependent on these nodes running customer product. So anyway to reduce that upgrade time is a plus and oh BTW, they know that turning off the SOL connection decreases the install time, but like I said this is a requirement. -robert

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[yast-devel] Is there a way to turn off/ reduce output in autoyast?
by Roberto Angelino 30 Jan '09

30 Jan '09

Yast Developers, My customer has setup an autoyast installation (sles10 sp1) and it works great. The problem is log messages are output to the physical console AND over SOL (Serial Over LAN). This SOL connection is 9600 baud (please don't ask me to tell them to increase--they can't) so the installation can take quite a while because of all the text yast is spewing over this 9600 connection can take some time. They are asking if there's a way to reduce it or eliminate it? Thanks -robert -- 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] A few questions on the DNS/DHCP handling in Yast openSUSE 11.1
by Birger Kollstrand 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Hi, I have seen some issues with the DHCP and DNS interface in Yast on 11.1 , I don't have factory running yet so I have not checked if it's like that there also. Is this familiar ? : - DNS is not updated automatically from DHCP without compex config (usability) - The popup boxes in the Yast DHCP config disapears if I do not keep the left mous button pressed down - When enabling Dynamic updates the parameter "ddns-update-style" is set to none. I belive it should be "interim". Is this a bug? Regards Birger -- 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] How to submit yast2-printer to SLE11?
by Johannes Meixner 29 Jan '09

29 Jan '09

Hello, I submit a usual package to the "sle11" distribution e.g. via /work/src/bin/submitpac -e -r sle11 sane-backends But for YaST modules I used/needed in the past only make stable which runs finally /usr/bin/y2tool checkin-stable which evaluates to /usr/share/YaST2/data/devtools/bin/checkin-stable which does the actual package submission. But in the Makefile there is no target like "sle11" so that it cannot work (as far as I see) by calling "make ..." Also '/usr/bin/y2tool --help' shows only checkin-stable but nothing like "sle11" so that it seems I also cannot use /usr/bin/y2tool to do the actual submission to "sle11". I could hack /usr/share/YaST2/data/devtools/bin/checkin-stable -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- dist=NOARCH if [ -z "`grep BuildArchitectures package/${pkg_rpmname}.spec | grep noarch`" ]; then dist=STABLE fi -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- but I wonder whether there is a built-in way in YaST to do it. Therefore I would like to know what the "official" way is how to submit yast2-printer to the "sle11" distribution. Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- 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] autoyast does not honor hwclock & timezone
by Roberto Angelino 28 Jan '09

28 Jan '09

Yast Developers, In our SLES 10 autoyast profile, we set the hwclock to localtime and timezone to US/Pacific using the below XML tag. It is no longer contained under the 'general' tag per autoyast documentation. After installation, we get eastern/UTC instead. I have also included the xml file. <clock> <hwclock>localtime</hwclock> <timezone>US/Pacific</timezone> </clock> Is this a bug or there is another mechanism to this from autoyast? Thanks -robert

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[yast-devel] Style Guide - Overview Dialog
by Michal Zugec 26 Jan '09

26 Jan '09

Hi all! I have some bugreports from Martin about button labeling described in guideline: http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Style_Guide#Single_Configuration.2FOverview.2FE… My question is about button ordering: Is that really suppose to be OK, Cancel order? Then it needs to be fixes in Wizard module (or show me how to implement that). Or the order is not important? If not, then screenshot/description should be fixed ... Bye, Michal -- Best Regards, Michal Zugec Software developer --------------------------------------------------------------------- SuSE CR, s.r.o. e-mail: mzugec(a)suse.cz Lihovarska 1060/12 tel: +420 284 028 960 190 00 Praha 9 fax: +420 296 542 374 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] using lib versus lib64 versus lib32 in YCP
by Johannes Meixner 23 Jan '09

23 Jan '09

Hello, is there a generic way in YCP to get the right default libdir (/usr/lib/ versus /usr/lib64/ versus /usr/lib32/) for the various architectures? For background information see https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464683 I must call /usr/$(libdir)/cups-autoconfig/cups-autoconfig I like to avoid a longer sequence of testing each individual architecture which we currently have for SLE11 (i586, x86_64, s390, s390x, ppc, ppc64, ia64). Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Maxfeldstrasse 5, 90409 Nuernberg, Germany AG Nuernberg, HRB 16746, GF: Markus Rex -- 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] Network Services/Remote Administration (RDP) module for yast2-network
by David Reveman 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

As part of fixing bnc 460835 I've created a patch that adds a RDP module to yast2-network package. I tried to make it use the same strings as the remote module for VNC administration whenever possible and it's pretty much a big cut-n-paste of that module right now. We probably want something better moving forward but for SLE11 this is probably the best solution. Can I commit this patch to the SuSE-Code-11-Branch? - david

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[yast-devel] New Widget: Graph
by Arvin Schnell 22 Jan '09

22 Jan '09

Hi Hackers, I have use some ITO time to implement a new widget for YaST. It shows a graph, with nodes and edges. See http://graphviz.org/ and attached screenshot to get an idea. The widget is not limited to the partitioner. It can be used from YCP as usual. You just have to give it the filename with the graph and the name of the layout algorithm (see Graph1.ycp and Graph2.ycp in ycp-ui-bindgins). It is far from finished. Some things from the TODO list: - colors - shapes and arrows - basic user interaction Have fun, Arvin PS: I offer two prices: One for the best use in YaST and one for the best abuse in YaST. Deadline is openSUSE 11.2 Beta 1. -- Arvin Schnell, <aschnell(a)suse.de> Software Engineer, Research & Development SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg)

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