As a guy who use openSuSE daily for my work, I like the direction that openSuSE has been treading in the past and now. I am not that intune with the community but then the direction they always take seem to walk the fine line between bring in the latest and greatest changes and maintaining a stability that allow for the majority of the users being able to use it for work. While guys like Fedora and Arch seems to throw caution to the wind bring in the changes with seemingly little regard for stability, openSuSE in my books have always been successful at the almost impossible task of maintaining a stable environment with the slew of changes coming from all directions. One thing that comes to my mind when writing this is their decision to maintain kde3 together with kde4 when kde4 was born to aid the transition 4.x.

With this in mind I look forward to the systemd integration into OpenSuSE planned for 12.1. Looks like there are a lot of overwhelming wins using systemd compared to the old systems. I was beginning to think that the OpenSuSE camp was a bit quiet compared to Ubuntu opting for upstart and Fedora going the Plymouth way. The only downside I can see for this is that untypical of something that is usually brought into the OpenSuSE, systemd seems to be the youngest of all the projects and I envision a lot of work ahead to stabilize it down for the future. This is something that I am definitely looking forward to in the Roadmap for openSuSE.

Hello,

This my regular weekly post on my GSoC project. Even though this week I had to give my last exams for my bachelor degree and some days of the week I had to spent them on reading, I did some progress on the actual project. First of all, I created my first patch for Augeas, yes this is my first patch not for this particular project, but in general. Every week I found my self, reading learning and carrying out new things, this is the coolest and most exciting thing in the GSoC experience until now.

Back to the actual patch, below you can see the description of the patch:


Subject: [PATCH] Added aug_find_lense function to find and return used for loading a
specific file

Aug_find_lense is a function that accepts a path of a file, and tries to
find the lense that was used to load this file in Augeas. Returns either
a string representing the lense if it is located succesfully either null
if the lense could not be found, or the file is not loaded in augeas.

As i had told you before, i am working on a merge method for augtool as well. This command works like this,

merge destination merging-parameters files-to-be-merged

example:
merge /etc/hosts/ (merging-parameters) /tmp/myfile1 /tmp/myfile2 ….. /tmp/myfile3

Until now I am able to use the aug_find lense to locate the lense used for the destination file. Then i have implemented an extra function that can use the name of the lense to load the files-to-merged to augeas. This permits me to have all these files in tree form used by Augeas. The plan now is to finish the code with aug_process_tree function[1] that will try to match the destination with the files-to-be-merged, and will then call the right function according to merging-parameters if a match is found.

What is next?

By having a merge command in augtool, that can load files in the way I mentioned above, i now have a test basis that will permit me to implement and test the merging functions. This must be done in the next two weeks, so i can be in the initial schedule. I am quite optimistic, things will go as planned. This week among with the coding there has been quite a lot of research on tree pattern matching algoriths, I am grateful that there are always nice people in open source communities that provide help and tips. I am back to coding…

Kind Regards,
Christos

[1] Work in Progress – The aug_process_tree function will be like: int aug_process_trees(struct augeas *aug, const char *dest, void (*process)(struct augeas *aug, const char *first, const char *second, void* data), void* data,const char *sources,…);

Hi all,



systemd is coming for next openSUSE (12.1) scheduled next fall.

I'll help for systemd integration in openSUSE Factory and will act as an interface between you (openSUSE testers, packagers, developers) and systemd upstream.

As you might guess, switching boot manager is not a trivial task and issues will be found. So, we want to have as much feedback and testing as possible, to try to tackle as much (if not all) issues in time for 12.1.

Here is our action plan, in several phases:

• phase 1: detecting current issues with systemd. Install systemd package and "manually" boot with it, by adding "init=/bin/systemd" at you kernel boot command line. In this setup, we want to find ALL the issues caused by switching to systemd, so please, check systemd on Factory status page and follow the instructions there to fill bug reports. We also want to ensure there is no regression, when using legacy sysvinit initscripts with systemd as boot manager.
• phase 2: systemd-sysvinit package installed by default and replace sysvinit.
• phase 3: providing systemd unit files to replace legacy sysvinit initscripts: this is a huge task which won't be completed before openSUSE 12.1, but it can be parallelized among a lot of people (ideally, each packager should be able to create unit systemd file). And we should also split this effort in manageable milestones :
• phase 3.1: GNOME and KDE live CDs should only use "native" systemd, without any sysvinit involved
• phase 3.2: installed system using GNOME and KDE live CDs be a "native" systemd (this involves testing additional paths in live installer)
• phase 3.3: install from DVD for GNOME and KDE should be "native" systemd

Of course, providing systemd unit file should not be a pure "openSUSE" task, because the ultimate goal for those files is to be cross-distribution and merged in relevant upstream projects. And we also don't want to duplicate effort which is starting in other distributions like Fedora, so, collaboration is key. I strongly recommend reading systemd for Administrators, Part III post about the conversion (and also all other posts : systemd for Administrators #1, #2, #3, #4, #5, #6, #7,#8 they are highly instructive).

For discussing / helping with systemd integration for Factory, please use opensuse-factory mailing list or go to #opensuse-factory IRC channel on Freenode.

We need your help to make sure openSUSE 12.1 will use systemd at 200% ;)

A week of fail and win has almost ended.

On the fail part, I had a hard time building pygobject, gobject-introspection and glib from git.gnome.org. At first I’ve trying pulling from git, configuring and building, without luck. Then I switched to jhbuild, which after a few sanitychecks, bootstraps and configuration, worked; a day after I found that I’m on the stable branch (-2-28/gnome-3) which wasn’t good enough for my aim at patching master, and have switched branches to master, trying build -n. Of course it didn’t work until I hacked PKG_CONFIG_PATH to include paths such as /usr/share/pkgconfig, /usr/lib/pkgconfig and /usr/lib/i386-linux-gnu/pkgconfig – with help from walters on #introspection. This week my hard drive was about to die – because of a bug in the kernel driver for ata, it was reset every 30 seconds, causing everything to freeze. Different liveCDs have failed, the symptoms were ambigous and hard to reproduce – almost an entire day of fun.

On the win side, I figured out the hdd problem, and locked the kernel version to 2.6.38-9 for now. Hacked pygobject, posted patch in bugzilla B-), I’m one step further into making packagekit python bindings work; also I used the remaining time to push forward some more preparation refactor on software-center.

I have also updated the GSoC timeline – I’ll try to keep it up to date.

For the next week, same objectives remain.

PS: If you’re a python hacker and feel like helping out , please check this bug report out.

Hello out there,

I am very pleased to announce the new issue (178) of openSUSE Weekly
News in Greek.

In this one you will read about:

* First step towards 12.1 with Milestone 1
* Andreas Jaeger: Factory Progress 2011-06-03
* Sebastian Kügler: kollaboration in at platform 11
* Linus Torvalds: Linux 3.0-rc1
* Sean Michael Kerner: Oracle gives OpenOffice to Apache

And of course many many interesting news about openSUSE, plus usefull
advice for making our lives easier.

Enough… read more at: own.opensuse.gr or at
http://el.opensuse.org/Weekly_news.

Looking forward to hearing your comments, advice and anything you would
like to read about at the next issue.

The openSUSE Weekly News is translated in the Greek language from issue #150. You can read older translated issues here: http://el.opensuse.org/Κατηγορία:Weekly_news_issues

Enjoy it!
Efstathios Agrapidis (efagra)

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La nueva distribución está disponible en:

*http://susegallery.com/a/UbPYJM/opensuse-medical-114

Sólo tienes que disfrutarla!

Muchas Gracias!

Saludos!

—

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