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Syslog-ng Python Packaging

In version 4 of syslog-ng, the role of Python became even more important. Previously, all parts of syslog-ng could be extended using Python code, but no actual Python code was provided with syslog-ng. Version 4.0 added a Kubernetes module implemented in Python, while version 4.2 added support for Hypr. But how can we ensure that all Python dependencies are met?

In my latest blog I describe the current situation and ask you for feedback!

https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/syslog-ng-python-packaging

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rpmlint: Google Summer of Code 2023

I'm glad to say that I'll participate again in the GSoC, as mentor. This year will be a bit different from the previous ones, because I'm not mentoring a GNOME project but a openSUSE project.

I started to work at SUSE the past year and with this new job I get involved in the openSUSE community and I started to contribute to rpmlint.

So this summer I'll be mentoring an intern and we'll work on improving the testing framework of the rpmlint project.

The rpmlint project is a command line tool to check rpm packages, the correctness of these kind of packages and warn the packagers about usual problems or good practices. It's widely used in all Linux distributions based on rpm, mainly SUSE and RedHat.

It is written in Python and uses pytest for testing the code. Right now there are a lot of .rpm binary packages, to check different functionality, but that way of testing makes a bit hard to write new tests and to maintain with changes. The idea of this GSoC project is to extend the testing framework of rpmlint to support an easy way of writting tests that doesn't require a real rpm, something that can mock what it's in the .rpm binary and try to replace some of the current binary tests with this new mock.

The selected intern is Afrid Hussain. He has done some initial work in the rpmlint project, solving some minor issues and we're now preparing the work to be done during the GSoC program. I'm sure that he will be able to achieve great things during these three months, so I'm looking forward to start to code and see how far can we go.

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My CNCF LFX Mentorship Spring 2023 Project at Kubescape

Project Link: CNCF – Kubescape: Release engineering: add Kubescape to commonly-requested package managers

kubescape is a Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) sandbox project. It is an open-source Kubernetes security platform and includes risk analysis, security compliance, and misconfiguration scanning. Targeted at the DevSecOps practitioner or platform engineer, it offers an easy-to-use CLI interface, flexible output formats, and automated scanning capabilities.

List of things I have done

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Packaging

Other packages managers that have already been available and not introduced by me during this project period:

GitHub Actions Release CI

I helped improve the Kubescape GitHub Actions release CI process, where I added the ARM64 build and tested for the GitHub Actions release CI workflow. I use QEMU with Docker to simulate the Linux ARM64 environment for building and testing the binaries. For macOS M1/M2, I investigated how to cross-build libgit2 C code and use Golang cross-compilation to build the binaries.

I also helped add the auto version bumping CI for kubescape/homebrew-tap, kubescape/packaging, and kubescape/github-action. After the release is made, we trigger these CIs so that the kubescape versions in these repositories can get upgraded automatically.

GitHub Actions Code Review

I helped improve the Kubescape GitHub Actions fix suggestions code review process, where I created the workflow which works by collecting the SARIF (Static Analysis Results Interchange Format) file that kubescape generates. Then, with the help of HollowMan6/sarif4reviewdog, convert the SARIF file into RDFormat (Reviewdog Diagnostic Format) and generate reviews for code fix suggestions on GitHub Actions using Reviewdog. I also helped add the “fix” object support for the Kubescape-generated SARIF report.

In addition to the main project, I also helped the community with other issues like bug-fixing as well as feature-adding.

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openSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2023/18

Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers,

This week, timing is on our side – and we pushed out 8 snapshots in 7 days. Of course, this could only happen because openQA was so very swift in testing yesterday’s snapshot – it passed the entire QA run in just a bit over 3 hours (314 test runs).

The snapshots published were numbered 0427 through 0504 and they contained these changes:

  • openSUSE:Factory is now using suse_version 1699 (unless you need to distinguish it from ALP, keep using > 1500 or >= 1550 as done in the past. No need to use the new version just yet in normal cases
  • Mozilla Firefox 112.0.2
  • OpenVPN 2.6.3
  • gnome-shell / mutter 44.1 (late joiners for GNOME 44.1)
  • Boost 1.82
  • postfix 3.8.0
  • Mesa 23.0.3
  • Wayland 1.22.0
  • Linux kernel 6.3.1
  • libvirt 9.3.0

Staging projects are quite busy, most relevant changes happening at the moment are:

  • Adjustments for packaging guidelines: packages with more than one spec file (multispec) must now mention the additional spec files in _multibuild. This is needed for future changes to git-based source management, where package links are not supported.
  • systemd 253.4
  • PHP 8.2.5
  • libxml2 2.11.1: breaks quite a few things. Users that have the package installed from the devel project (no Tumbleweed QA runs!) experience issues with zypper failing to cache repositories
  • Switching default from ffmpeg-5 to ffmpeg-6 (only chromaprint blocks this by now)
  • openSSL 3.1: still a few broken packages – see https://bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1209430
  • ICU 73.1: breaks libqt5-qtwebengine
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CLI: Check if there are jobs running

I recently automated the installation of updates on my openQA development instance. The goal was to make the instance updates itself over night, but only if it is idle, i.e. there are no running jobs. Sometimes when I’m busy, the instance needs to work overnight and despite openQA being able to restart cancelled jobs from a reboot, I prefer to avoid situations where this might result in problems in times, where I really can’t have that.

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Kernel Updates in Tumbleweed, Development Seeks Volunteers

Snapshot updates of openSUSE Tumbleweed were frequent and consistent this week while another development project seeks to get things moving.

A post to developers on the Factory mailing list titled openSUSE ALP: Call for Volunteers aims to gain contributors for rebuilding an openSUSE Leap 15 successor based on a forthcoming commercially available ALP distribution being pioneered by SUSE.

While the call for volunteer post has gained interest and still needs more, Tumbleweed released Linux Kernel 6.3 in snapshot. 20230503. The update from kernel-source 6.2.12 to 6.3.1 went through a considerable amount of testing before finally being released in the snapshot. A Btrfs change for the kernel fixed an uninitialized variable warning and a patch for a regression in the 6.3 version was added to the update. There was an update to enable armv7hl and arm64 configurations. The 9.3 version of libvirt was released in the snapshot. Improvements made to the release include better validation of watchdog devices related to qemu, and arm and RISC-V architectures now use the virt machine types by default. There were also several bug fixes; one was related to UEFI firmware and another related to NVMe drivers concerning locked memory. Just a few documentations improvements and updated translations were made in the spellcheck library gspell 1.12.1. The update of gtk3 3.24.37+70 was made to fix a crash. A Common Vulnerability and Exposure was fixed with the vim 9.0.1504 text editor update. CVE-2023-2426, which used an out-of-range pointer offset with the GitHub repository, won’t bug users anymore.A few other packages to update in the snapshot included GNOME’s amtk 5.6.1, gucharmap 15.0.4 and more.

The team of audacity contributors was very active this week as the second version of the week was released in snapshot 20230502. Audacity 3.3.1 fixed a calculation error when trying to upload to audio.com. The audio editor fixed crash reporting being disabled and fixed custom sample rates from being uneditable. Xfce users will be happy to feel less CPU usage thanks to a reversion that prevents this in thunar 4.18.6. The file manager also improved error handling of undo and redo. Community package serd, which is a lightweight C library for working with RDF data, updated to version 0.30.16 and addressed memory consumption when reading documentation as well as fixes spelling mistakes for manpages. An update of yast2-trans provided updates for Portuguese and Swedish languages. A few other packages were updated in the snapshot include docbook-xsl 1.79.2.1, libsoup 3.4.2, guestfs-tools 1.50.1, libupnp 1.14.17 and more.

The lightweight C library for loading and wrapping LV2 plugin User Interfaces was the only package to update in snapshot 20230501. The suil 0.10.18 version had some fixes for MacOS, but fixed issues with newer toolchains and removed Qt 4 support and some of its dead code.

Snapshot 20230430 was large, but updated a few libraries. The Wayland 1.22.0 update added explicit events for the preferred buffer scale. The display server included a few new convenience functions and bug fixes. The 3d graphical package Mesa had changes in several areas of the 23.0.3 version. There was an overlay fix that was unable to launch titles on Steam and a crash for a slicer was fixed for GNOME. Some incorrect settings were also fixed for RADV and yast2-country 4.6.2 did some configuration modules cleanup related to the keymap for Russia.

Another audio package, JACK, arrived in snapshot. 20230429. JACK 1.9.22 dropped dependencies used for the example client and fixed the build with Python 3.11+. The libzypp 17.31.11 package fixd an endless loop if the wrong credentials are stored and the package introduces a timeout in the configuration. The Perl modules package for various bootloaders eloquently perl-Bootloader reached its first major version. It updated from version 0.941 to 1.0 and removed the legacy parts. The spec file was moved to git repository and changes were made to distinguish between 32 bit and 64 bit UEFI platforms. Other packages to update in the snapshot were libxmlb 0.3.11, makedumpfile 1.7.3, postfix 3.8.0 and xdpyinfo 1.3.4.

Packages to update from last Friday’s snapshot, 20230428, were audacity 3.3.0, which now supports ffmpeg 6, and ModemManager 1.20.6, which adds additional support for 5G modems and fixed the unsolicited message with LTE. An update of gnome-shell 44.1 fixed several aspects of the package. This includes fixing placeholder alignment in the bluetooth menu, accessible names in the VPN menu and various improvements to the light theme variant. Another GNOME package to update was its window manager mutter 44.1. The update fixed some resizing windows via keyboard, an anchor position when dragging a window and the package also fixed a plugged leak. Several other packages update in the snapshot.

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Getting syslog-ng 4

Version 4 of syslog-ng was released last December. Quite a few people use it already in production. How can you install it for a test drive? It might be already available in your Linux distribution. There are also several unofficial repositories with the latest syslog-ng.

From this blog, you can learn how to check your syslog-ng version, where to check if it is not yet installed, and a few additional resources, if you want to install the latest version from unofficial repositories.

Read more at https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/getting-syslog-ng-4

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Library of oneAPI-TBB version 2021.9.0 available for openSUSE Linux.

Build version 2021.9.0 and update the latest version of the oneTBB is a flexible C++ library that simplifies the work of adding parallelism to complex applications, even if you are not a threading expert. The library lets you easily write parallel programs that take full advantage of the multi-core performance.

Add repository and install manually

zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:cabelo:intel/15.4/home:cabelo:intel.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install intel-oneapi-tbb

More information : HERE

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Library of oneAPI-DNN version 3.1 available for openSUSE Linux.

Build and update 3.1 version of the oneAPI Deep Neural Network Library (oneDNN) is an open-source cross-platform performance library of basic building blocks for deep learning applications. oneDNN is part of oneAPI. The library is optimized for Intel(R) Architecture Processors, Intel Processor Graphics and Xe Architecture graphics.

Add repository and install manually

For standard run the following as root:

zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:cabelo:intel/15.4/home:cabelo:intel.repo
zypper refresh
zypper install intel-oneapi-dnn

More information : HERE