Prague YaST team meeting 2008-04-24 =================================== Present: jkupec, jreidinger, jsrain, juhliarik, jsuchome, locilka, lslezak, mvidner, mzugec Absent: kmachalkova (exchange) Guest: msvec Minutes: jkupec Next minutes: jkupec YaST2 core ---------- - feature code name "Blanik" - release 42 last log messages on yast crash (mvidner) http://mvidner.blogspot.com/2008/04/opensuse-110-beta-1-is-that-murderers.ht... libzypp ------- - fate #120118 - Locks API is ready, but PoolQuery needs a fix for (exact/glob) matching of the name attribute of patches/patterns/products! Other stuff should work. - It seems that we now have API matching all the application layer requirements, jkupec will document it on http://en.opensuse.org/Libzypp/Application_Layer/API Anybody is welcome to participate. zypper ------ - richtext descriptions are now finally rendered to plain text (jreidinger) - fate #302919 done - improvements if the install command like: zypper install foo-1.2.4 or foo=1.2.4 or even foo = 1.2.4 zypper install yast2* zypper install anjuta -kdevelop zypper install packman:MPlayer whateverfromanywhere factory:foo - fate #302148 - compatibility with rug, few commands added: whatprovides packages patterns products service-types list-resolvables mount install/update options global options - fate #120118 - package locking commands added (addlock, removelock, locks) - many bug fixes Samba (jsuchome) ----- - done fate #301320: Windows Domain Membership Yast module should include a field to specify the OU for the machine account - done fate #300458: Samba-client module needs option to leave an domain Users (jsuchome) ----- - Finished feature #302980: Simplified user config during installation. Installation ------------ - kexec is used now instead of rebooting the machine after the installation. You can use kexec_reboot=0 boot parameter to suppress this behavior. (juhliarik) - image-based installatino: ability to choose target architecture added (allows multiarch installation media) (locilka) SuSEFirewall2 (locilka) ------------- - possibility to switch Samba browsing on added High Availability ----------------- - command line interface added (lslezak) Pkg-Bindings (lslezak) ------------ - ability to switch callbacks on/off added: added PackageCallbacks::RegisterEmptyProgressCallbacks() and PackageCallbacks::RestorePreviousProgressCallbacks() functions - Improved computing of total size of packages to install and to download in the installation proposal - sum the sizes in pkg-bindings instead of on the YCP level (speed up from 17 seconds to <1 second) Printer (mzugec) ------- - Avoid the Automated Setup For "Non-Recommended" (means not fully supported) Printers (FaTE#120083) - With bcm-firmware-cutter download firmware for Broadcom wireless cards (FaTE#302130). Misc ---- - lslezak and mzugec represented openSUSE on Linux Expo - mvidner is having fun with SP1 -> SP2 migration :O) - mvidner is working on lazy loading of libzypp in yast - there is a problem with order of destruction of static objects (fate#302119, bnc#381917) - Fixes and code cleanup in the dirinstall module (lslezak) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org