Minutes of Prague YaST Team Meeting: 2009-01-29
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Present: jkupec, jreidinger, jsrain, jsuchome, juhliarik,
kmachalkova, locilka, lslezak, mvidner, mzugec
Minutes: mzugec
Next Minutes: jkupec
add-on-creator
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Generate metadata for release packages (bnc#466327)
zypp (zypper/libzypp?)
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- API for reading history log
- zypp credential manager for zypp
bootloader
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- 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
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- QSplitter - in Qt installation user can hide "installation steps"
(submitted for 11.2)
- ncurses - improved speed of drawing Table (scrolling is still slow)
partitioner
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- implemented deleting of all disk partitions (all logical volumes in a
volume group) at once.
y2-webpin
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- full history, not only last search + tabbed browsing. See also:
http://hedgehogpainter.livejournal.com/4686.html
sw_single
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- 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
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- new agent .system.freespace (in package yast2)
Installation
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- 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
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- removed PasswordAuth option from UI
sound
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- in case of several channels with same name, yast will add also index
as part of identifier
url
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- URL.ycp now has support for IPv6
D-bus
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- yast webservice - API to call (via) D-bus (?)
button labels
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For dialog below we have new function Wizard::OpenCancelOKDialog() :
http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Style_Guide#Single_Configuration.2FOverview.2FE…
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>>> 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
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
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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
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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
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dist=NOARCH
if [ -z "`grep BuildArchitectures package/${pkg_rpmname}.spec | grep noarch`" ];
then
dist=STABLE
fi
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but I wonder whether there is a built-in way in YaST to do it.
Therefore I would like to know what the "official" way is
how to submit yast2-printer to the "sle11" distribution.
Kind Regards
Johannes Meixner
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Yast Developers,
In our SLES 10 autoyast profile, we set the hwclock to localtime
and timezone to US/Pacific using the below XML tag. It is no
longer contained under the 'general' tag per autoyast documentation.
After installation, we get eastern/UTC instead. I have also included
the xml file.
<clock>
<hwclock>localtime</hwclock>
<timezone>US/Pacific</timezone>
</clock>
Is this a bug or there is another mechanism to this from autoyast?
Thanks
-robert
Hi all!
I have some bugreports from Martin about button labeling described in
guideline:
http://en.opensuse.org/YaST/Style_Guide#Single_Configuration.2FOverview.2FE…
My question is about button ordering:
Is that really suppose to be OK, Cancel order? Then it needs to be fixes
in Wizard module (or show me how to implement that). Or the order is not
important? If not, then screenshot/description should be fixed ...
Bye,
Michal
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Hello,
is there a generic way in YCP to get the right default libdir
(/usr/lib/ versus /usr/lib64/ versus /usr/lib32/)
for the various architectures?
For background information see
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=464683
I must call
/usr/$(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
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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
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.
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