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Como atualizar seu OpenSuse 11.4 para 12.1 sem problemas.

22/11/2011 por little_oak

Bom pessoal, antemão queremos ressaltar que o procedimento é rápido (só depende do seu link de internet) e simples de proceder. Bora simbora?

Vamos analisar os repositórios ativos (no meu caso tinham MUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUITOS, abaixo seguem somente os default), para isso use o comando:

zypper repos –uri

A resposta deverá ser:

# | Alias                            | Name                             | Enabled | Refresh | URI
--+----------------------------------+----------------------------------+---------+---------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 | Updates-for-openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0 | Updates for openSUSE 11.4 11.4-0 | Yes     | Yes     | http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.4/
2 | openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0             | openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0             | Yes     | No      | cd:///?devices=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-VMware_Virtual_IDE_CDROM_Drive_10000000000000000001,/dev/sr0
3 | repo-debug                       | openSUSE-11.4-Debug              | No      | Yes     | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/11.4/repo/oss/
4 | repo-debug-update                | openSUSE-11.4-Update-Debug       | No      | Yes     | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/11.4/
5 | repo-non-oss                     | openSUSE-11.4-Non-Oss            | Yes     | Yes     | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.4/repo/non-oss/
6 | repo-oss                         | openSUSE-11.4-Oss                | Yes     | Yes     | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.4/repo/oss/
7 | repo-source                      | openSUSE-11.4-Source             | No      | Yes     | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.4/repo/oss/

--+----------------------------------+----------------------------------+---------+---------+------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

1 | Updates-for-openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0 | Updates for openSUSE 11.4 11.4-0 | Yes | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.4/

2 | openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0 | openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0 | Yes | No | cd:///?devices=/dev/disk/by-id/ata-VMware_Virtual_IDE_CDROM_Drive_10000000000000000001,/dev/sr0

3 | repo-debug | openSUSE-11.4-Debug | No | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/distribution/11.4/repo/oss/

4 | repo-debug-update | openSUSE-11.4-Update-Debug | No | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/debug/update/11.4/

5 | repo-non-oss | openSUSE-11.4-Non-Oss | Yes | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.4/repo/non-oss/

6 | repo-oss | openSUSE-11.4-Oss | Yes | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/11.4/repo/oss/

7 | repo-source | openSUSE-11.4-Source | No | Yes | http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.4/repo/oss/

Vamos ativar o repositório updates for opensuse 11.4 11.4-0 com o seguinte comando:

zypper modifyrepo –enable Updates-for-openSUSE-11.4-11.4-0

Logo em seguida, validar o repositório (URI):

zypper addrepo –check –name ‘openSUSE-11.4-Update’ http://download.opensuse.org/update/11.4/ repo-update

Hora de deixar tudo novinho antes da upgrade:

zypper refresh
zypper update

Depois que tudo estiver atualizado na atual versão deveremos fazer o seguinte:

zypper modifyrepo –all –disable

Isso vai desativar tudo quanto for repositório antigo (11.4).

Hora de ativar todos os repositórios novos:

zypper addrepo –name “openSUSE-12.1 OSS” http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.1/repo/oss/ repo-12.1-oss
zypper addrepo –name “openSUSE-12.1 Non-OSS” http://download.opensuse.org/distribution/12.1/repo/non-oss/ repo-12.1-non-oss
zypper addrepo –name “openSUSE-12.1 Updates” http://download.opensuse.org/update/12.1/ repo-12.1-update

Hora do FATALITY:

zypper ref
zypper dup

Depois disto dê reboot (no console mesmo):

reboot

Quando inicializar já virá com gnome-shell.
Aqui está ok (brilho, som), mas a wifi foi para o espaço.
Iremos fazer um artigo com a correção.

openSUSE 12.1 Beta Lançado

03/10/2011 por little_oak

Confira a nota de lançamento do OpenSuse 12.1 beta pela DistroWatch:

Bryen Yunashko has announced the availability of the beta release of openSUSE 12.1: “The much-awaited beta release of openSUSE 12.1 is here. If you’ve been following us, you know this release was originally called Milestone 6. However, the release team and its testers agreed that this round of testing showed milestone 6 to be so stable and ready for general testing, they decided to call it beta. And that means that if you’ve been thinking about taking a pre-release of 12.1 for a spin before our final release in November, there’s no time like the present.” Read the short release announcement for more information and relevant links. Download (mirrors): openSUSE-KDE-LiveCD-Build0315-i686.iso (677MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0315-i686.iso (664MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-KDE-LiveCD-Build0315-x86_64.iso (690MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0315-x86_64.iso (677MB, MD5, torrent).

Fonte: http://distrowatch.com/6913

openSUSE 12.1 Milestone 5 Lançado

06/09/2011 por little_oak

Bryen Yunashko has announced the availability of the third milestone release of openSUSE 12.1: “openSUSE 12.1’s milestone 5 is now ready for download. Here are some interesting things you can expect to see when you try milestone 5: further changes have been made to systemd which replaces the SysInitV system, the default is still SysInitV but we encourage testing of systemd so that we can switch the default for the next release; we are focusing on the GPL-ed OpenJDK version now, this milestone is the last one that comes with the binary Java provided by Oracle; GNOME 3.1.5 is another step closer to GNOME 3.2; glibc has been updated to version 2.14.” For more details please see the full release announcement. Download (mirrors): openSUSE-KDE-LiveCD-Build0250-i686.iso (696MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0250-i686.iso (664MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-KDE-LiveCD-Build0250-x86_64.iso (689MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0250-x86_64.iso (678MB, MD5, torrent).

Fonte: http://distrowatch.com/6869

Como instalar o Adobe AIR e TweetDeck mais recentes no OpenSuse 11.4

22/08/2011 por little_oak

Bom, pessoal, nós do AppUnix decidimos fazer um simples How to (bem easy-to-use mesmo) para que você possa instalar facilmente o Adobe Air junto com Tweetdeck sob OpenSuse 11.4. Sobre as notas de distribuição e hardware, nada tão gritante. Antes damos um alerta para quem “viaja” demais e instala Sistemas Operacionais Linux 64 bits quando NÃO SE TEM MAIS DE 4 gb de ram. Evite isto, pois Kernel PAE dá conta do recado e reconhece os 4gb de ram sob 32 bits com MUITO louvor.

Voltando ao ponto de specs, seguem abaixo:

Notebook Testado

Acer 7745 -> i3 350M, 4gb de ram.

Opensuse 11.4 32 bits.

Vamos que vamos?

Nosso primeiro passo é instalar o pacote RPM que está disposto no site da Adobe (pacote adobe air), Para baixar DIRETAMENTE acesse o link abaixo:

http://get.adobe.com/br/air/thankyou/?installer=Adobe_AIR_2.6_for_Linux_%28.rpm%29

Isto vai cair no site já para download.

Siga os passos abaixo:

Primeiro passo é dizer que queremos abrir o pacote com o gestor de pacotes RPM (mostrado acima).

Acima vemos o download prosseguindo (mesmo escolhendo ABRIR com gestor de pacotes RPM).

No passo acima vemos a execução do pacote baixado. Devemos clicar em INSTALAR para prosseguir.

No passo acima devemos confirmar que queremos instalar o pacote.

Devemos confirmar com nossa senha (senha de root do seu OpenSUSE 11.4) para autorizar a instalação do pacote.

Acima vemos o processo de instalação do adobe air rodando normalmente.

Para conferir que a instalação ocorreu filé clique em COMPUTADOR -> MAIS APLICATIVOS. Deve aparecer idêntico a foto acima.

Pronto, agora que metemos bala no Adobe Air, teremos de meter pólvora (ou POIVA -> no interiorzão) no TweetDeck. Bora? Vamos na velocidade do dragão branco?

Primeiro passo é acessar o site oficial: http://www.tweetdeck.com/

Devemos clicar no menu COMPUTADOR para podermos baixar a versão DESKTOP.

Clicando em DOWNLOAD NOW iremos ativar o bichão (download dele). Devemos fazer isto para prosseguir com a instalação.

Veja o carregamento do arquivo direto no site.

Agora devemos clicar em ABRIR para baixar e usar o Adobe Air automaticamente na abertura dos arquivos.

Estamos terminando o download, falta pouco.

Agora iremos autorizar o Adobe Air a instalar o TweetDeck.

Estamos acima definindo o ponto de instalação do TweetDeck. Deveremos deixar o padrão, só confirme isto.

Acima devemos concordar com os termos da Adobe.

Conforme imagem acima, devemos colocar a senha de root do OpenSuse 11.4 afim de que seja autorizada a instalação/conclusão da instalação.

Depois disso é só ENJOY véi!

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Corrigir Acentuação de Teclado US internacional no OpenSuse 11.4 de maneira simples

18/08/2011 por little_oak

Bom, existe uma coisa que iremos resolver com muita facilidade que é o bendito do teclado US internacional e sua acentuação.
O teclado que estou usando é de um Acer 7745 17″.
Para sanarmos este trem não teremos dificuldades não, façamos o seguinte:

1 – Clique em COMPUTADOR -> YAST

2 – Assim que o YAST abrir você deve digitar no campo de pesquisas (acima, no canto esquerdo) a palavra teclado (veja a imagem abaixo):

Clique em LAYOUT do TECLADO do SISTEMA, em seguida procure por PORTUGUÊS (BRASIL ACENTUAÇÃO – EUA).

Isto é o mesmo que US-Internacional ou US Acentos.

Aplique clicando em OK e depois corra para o abraço.

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Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n no OpenSuse 11.4 (Acer 7745)

18/08/2011 por little_oak

Antes de mais nada quero agradecer a Deus por estar usando este notebook, pois, sinceramente acho punk demais programar em monitores de alta resolução (1600×900).
Outro ponto importante para este artigo é que estou encantado com o nível de estabilidade do OpenSuse 11.4 neste notebook, que desde já deixo claro no mini overview que:

1 – Placa de rede está operando com eficiência (sim, pacotes sendo enviados usando GB),
2 – Som do Notebook alto pra caramba (e com qualidade),
3 – Brilho do monitor MUITO bem trabalhado (lembram do esquema de brilhos no ubuntu e mint, que o pau comeu pro nosso lado? https://www.appunix.com.br/howto/linux/resolvendo-problema-de-brilho-ubuntu-10-04-10-10-11-04-e-linux-mint-9-e-10-julia/),
4 – Reconhecimento de memória ram foi MUITO interessante (vide:

appunix-labs:~ # uname -a

Linux appunix-labs.site 2.6.37.6-0.5-desktop #1 SMP PREEMPT 2011-04-25 21:48:33 +0200 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux

appunix-labs:~ # free -m
total used free shared buffers cached
Mem: 3639 1118 2521 0 45 726
-/+ buffers/cache: 346 3293
Swap: 2058 0 2058

appunix-labs:~ #
)

5 – Repositórios para quem usa Velox estão muito rápidos (1 mb de link compartilhado aqui no labs, avephoenix… :( ).

No mais o sistema em si é um tesão, Gnome 2.x, LibreOffice e etc.

Segue um lspci do Hardware testado:

00:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor DRAM Controller (rev 12)
00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: Intel Corporation Core Processor Integrated Graphics Controller (rev 12)
00:16.0 Communication controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset HECI Controller (rev 06)
00:1a.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1b.0 Audio device: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset High Definition Audio (rev 06)
00:1c.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 1 (rev 06)
00:1c.5 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset PCI Express Root Port 6 (rev 06)
00:1d.0 USB Controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset USB2 Enhanced Host Controller (rev 06)
00:1e.0 PCI bridge: Intel Corporation 82801 Mobile PCI Bridge (rev a6)
00:1f.0 ISA bridge: Intel Corporation Mobile 5 Series Chipset LPC Interface Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.2 SATA controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset 4 port SATA AHCI Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.3 SMBus: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset SMBus Controller (rev 06)
00:1f.6 Signal processing controller: Intel Corporation 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Thermal Subsystem (rev 06)
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications AR8151 v1.0 Gigabit Ethernet (rev c0)
09:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM43225 802.11b/g/n (rev 01)
ff:00.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture Generic Non-core Registers (rev 02)
ff:00.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QuickPath Architecture System Address Decoder (rev 02)
ff:02.0 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Link 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.1 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor QPI Physical 0 (rev 02)
ff:02.2 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)
ff:02.3 Host bridge: Intel Corporation Core Processor Reserved (rev 02)

Pronto, vamos meter o pau e resolver logo essa parada com a velocidade do dragão?

Em primeiros passos DEVEMOS habilitar alguns repositórios que por default (mantidos pela comunidade) não estão ativos, porém, para que tudo funfe ok precisam estar instalados. Primeiro devemos abrir o YAST2 (Meu computador -> SISTEMA -> YAST), devemos seguir exatamente conforme a tela abaixo, para clicar nos repositórios afim de localizarmos o trecho para add repositórios:

Pronto, feito isto devemos selecionar os repositórios principais, mas para isso iremos avançar menu por menu até chegar na hora fatal :P, veja as imagens abaixo:

Veja que, conforme o print, na tela, devemos clicar em ADICIONAR afim de que adicionemos repositórios pelo gestor, veja a imagem abaixo que mostra a tela seguinte:

Assim que clicarmos em adicionar nos será dado um leque de opções, devemos escolher adicionar um repositório da comunidade, que como podem ver marcamos Mozilla Beta, Packman (sem este não conseguiremos colocar a Wifi para moer), Mozilla e o Contrib, veja os prints seguintes:

Depois disto, quando clicarmos em OK o sistema vai processar nossas escolhas, porém, ele reclamará de chaves não válidas, devemos ignorar tais mensagens aceitando tais chaves gpg, veja a imagem abaixo:

Estamos perto da glória e neste instante não vamos perder o fôlego, antes devemos receber uma notificação do que foi mudado, veja nosso print:

Agora é hora de console :P

Devemos impor as mãos e meter o pau no negócio, vamo que vamo?

Devemos rodar todos os comandos abaixo como ROOT afim de nem perdermos tempo com autorizações, para isto digite su – e coloque a senha do sistema para ganhar direitos globais como root e use os seguintes comandos abaixo:

appunix-labs:~ # lsmod | grep “b43\|ssb\|wl”
appunix-labs:~ # rmmod b43
appunix-labs:~ # rmmod ssb
appunix-labs:~ # zypper remove b43-fwcutter
appunix-labs:~ # echo “blacklist ssb” >> /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf
appunix-labs:~ # echo “blacklist bcm43xx” >> /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf
appunix-labs:~ # echo “blacklist b43” >> /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf
appunix-labs:~ # echo “blacklist ndiswrapper” >> /etc/modprobe.d/50-blacklist.conf
appunix-labs:~ # zypper in broadcom-wl broadcom-wl-kmp-desktop
appunix-labs:~ # modprobe wl

Por fim dê um reboot:

appunix-labs:~ # reboot

Assim que seu S.O. voltar você deverá apertar FN + F3 para habilitar sua WIFI, dando tudo ok o resultado deve ser parecido com a foto abaixo:

Rolou ok aí?

Se ficar uma mini gamb de não aceitar sua WIFI pass, faça o seguinte, reinicie o pc, DESCONECTE qualquer cabo de rede e tente conectar-se via WIFI.

Rolou ok agora?

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Vulnerabilidade do Opera Browser no Opensuse 11.x

24/06/2011 por little_oak

From:		[email protected]
To:		[email protected]
Subject:		[security-announce] openSUSE-SU-2011:0688-1: important: opera
Date:		Fri, 24 Jun 2011 15:08:26 +0200 (CEST)
Message-ID:		<[email protected]>

openSUSE Security Update: opera ______________________________________________________________________________ Announcement ID: openSUSE-SU-2011:0688-1 Rating: important References: #694567 Affected Products: openSUSE 11.4 openSUSE 11.3 ______________________________________________________________________________ An update that contains security fixes can now be installed. It includes one version update.

Description: opera 11.11 fixes a security vulnerability.

Citing http://www.opera.com/support/kb/view/992/:

Framesets allow web pages to hold other pages inside them.

Certain frameset constructs are not handled correctly when the page is unloaded, causing a memory corruption.

To inject code, additional techniques will have to be employed. Patch Instructions:

To install this openSUSE Security Update use YaST online_update.

Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

– openSUSE 11.4: zypper in -t patch opera-4588 – openSUSE 11.3: zypper in -t patch opera-4588 To bring your system up-to-date, use “zypper patch”. Package List: – openSUSE 11.4 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 11.11]: opera-11.11-1.2.1 opera-gtk-11.11-1.2.1 opera-kde4-11.11-1.2.1

– openSUSE 11.3 (i586 x86_64) [New Version: 11.11]: opera-11.11-1.2.1 opera-gtk-11.11-1.2.1 opera-kde4-11.11-1.2.1

References: https://bugzilla.novell.com/694567

Fonte: http://lwn.net/Articles/449150/

openSUSE 12.1 Milestone 2

24/06/2011 por little_oak

Jos Poortvliet Anunciou recentemente o lançamento do OpenSuse 12.1 Milestone 2.

Confira as notas de lançamento:

About 3 weeks after the first milestone for openSUSE 12.1, today the second milestone has been made available. Following the Roadmap, this is the second of 6 milestone until the openSUSE 12.1 release in November.
Milestones

openSUSE is developed in a repository called Factory. Packages flow from the devel projects into Factory upon OK from the release team following the Factory Development Model. During the development cycle (more detailed model) periodic releases are made available for testing – these are the milestones. Six of them become available. After some several freezes go into effect, the component freeze just before the fourth milestone for instance. And about a couple of weeks after the last milestone the first of two Release Candidates is made ready for testing. The final openSUSE 12.1 release is expected on November 11th.
Progress since the previous milestone

The first milestone had a huge number of changes and improvements on top of the latest openSUSE release. Again, many packages have been updated. You can check the latest package versions on this page. What are the major changes?

Firefox 5 RC
Horde4 packages (php5-pear-horde)
“The Board”
rawstudio
llvm/clang 3.0 snapshot
many smaller updates to KDE and GNOME applications and desktops

Also nspluginwrapper is now updated which will allow a more stable Flash plugin on 64bit platforms. With this change you can now watch two flash videos at the same time. And over 100 new packages have been added, including extensions for Banshee, some small tools like DDS2tar and brainfuck interpreter, Cdecl (turns C/C++ gibberish into English), cint (small C/C++ interpreter) and a number of other devel and language tools.
systemd

On the openSUSE project and factory mailing lists a discussion is taking place centered around the new systemd init system. After the introduction of the road to systemd for openSUSE 12.1 by Frederic Crozat, issues, complaints and limitations of systemd are being discussed and dissected. Changing an init system is an invasive change and systemd has ambitions beyond just replacing sysV not everyone always agrees with. Work will be needed to ensure a stable and usable init system for 12.1 and the team welcomes help and bugreports!
Helping out easier than ever!

As expected from a development release, there is still a lot of work to do, so your input at this early stage will be a huge help in making the final release into the beautifully polished work that we aim for. openSUSE 12.1 Milestone 2 has a list of most annoying bugs here, please add issues you find and help fix them. As Will Stephenson recently blogged, fixing an issue is a matter of BURPing on build.opensuse.org! Find a how-to here.

So go and see for yourself what the next version of openSUSE has in store for you at our download center.

Para baixar veja abaixo às versões:

Download (mirrors): openSUSE-KDE-LiveCD-Build0072-i686.iso (671MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0072-i686.iso (668MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-KDE-LiveCD-Build0072-x86_64.iso (672MB, MD5, torrent), openSUSE-GNOME-LiveCD-Build0072-x86_64.iso (685MB, MD5, torrent).

Opensuse 12.1 Lançado!

02/06/2011 por little_oak

A distribuição Open Source mantida pela Novell + Comunidade, o Opensuse anunciou recentemente o lançamento da versão 12.1. O OpenSuse é uma versão grátis para quem deseja conhecer este sistema operacional e em seguida aventurar-se pelo mundo Suse Enterprise.

Um dos pontos mais fortes desse release é um update de 800 pacotes em relação sua versão anterior. Muito foi feito e abaixo detalharemos mais sobre as notas de anúncio:

Milestone 1, the first step towards the upcoming openSUSE 12.1 release, is now available. It is the first milestone, hence far from stable, but the images are now finally building, so we have a good starting point for further development.

Many updates, systemd still optional

With over 800 updates, including minor and major updates, the current milestone is ready for some serious testing. This iteration already sees some major upgrades taking place, with the kernel moving on to 2.6.39 and GNOME to 3.0. In addition we have popular GNOME applications like Evolution, Eye of GNOME and others all synchronized, and KDE’s Plasma Desktop coming along nicely with a minor version upgrade to 4.6.3. You will also find upgrades to GCC, glibc, Perl, Python, and the RPM package manager. Much work has also been put into the much-lauded systemd which has now been upgraded to version 26.

You can read some info on the progress in this recent blog on progress in Factory by Andreas Jaeger.

Helping out easier than ever!

As expected from a development release, there is still a lot of work to do, so your input at this early stage will be a huge help in making the final release into the beautifully polished work that we aim for. openSUSE 12.1 Milestone 1 has a list of most annoying bugs here, please add issues you find and help fix them. As Will Stephenson recently blogged, fixing an issue is a matter of BURPing on build.opensuse.org! Find a how-to here.

So run, don’t crawl, to your nearest downloader and see for yourself what the next version of openSUSE has in store for you at our download center.

A lot of things are happening in our Factory distribution that will be released in November 2011 as openSUSE 12.1 and I’d like to point out a few things from the last few weeks that users and developers of factory shouldn’t miss.

Roadmap openSUSE 12.1

Stephan “Coolo” Kulow has updated the openSUSE 12.1 Roadmap, the next milestone is Milestone 1 which is delayed and targeted now for release on Tuesday, 30th May. The next paragraphs highlight some of the updates for this versions.

GCC 4.6

The GNU Compiler Collection has been updated to version 4.6, the list of changes includes the following new warning that will be visible while compiling packages for openSUSE Factory:

“New -Wunused-but-set-variable and -Wunused-but-set-parameter warnings were added for C, C++, Objective-C and Objective-C++. These warnings diagnose variables respective parameters which are only set in the code and never otherwise used. Usually such variables are useless and often even the value assigned to them is computed needlessly, sometimes expensively. The -Wunused-but-set-variable warning is enabled by default by -Wall flag and -Wunused-but-set-parameter by -Wall -Wextra flags.”

Some packages have been failing by the new GCC due to new warnings and new optimizations and most have been fixed already but please double check that your packages are building and running fine.

RPM 4.9

Michael Schröder announced RPM 4.9 for Factory. He explains the main packager visible changes as:

“Besides some bug fixes and an update to a newer BerkeleyDB
library rpm-4.9.0 contains plugin architecture for dependency
generation. In older rpms, the internal dependency generator
was pretty much hardcoded in C, so we always used the old
external one to generate dependencies. With rpm-4.9.0, the
internal generator has become flexible enough so that we
can use it.
This means for you, that rpm will no longer use the %__find_provides and %__find_requires macros. Some packages redefined those macros to be able to filter the generated dependencies.
This will no longer work in rpm-4.9.0. Instead, support for
dependency filtering was added to rpm…”

GNOME 3

GNOME 3 has now hit Factory as well and Vincent Untz explained how to fix failures due to the large push.

Linux Kernel 2.6.39

This update was a “boring” update – nothing broke AFAIK , so I hope it’s a solid version. Users will benefit from the new features in it. 2.6.39 is the first kernel without the Big Kernel Lock at all!

Packaging Changes

Besides new software, also new ways of handling it get introduced. The following catched my eyes:

Rpmlint update

Ludwig Nussel updated rpmlint to version 1.2 and explained the new warnings about packaging of rpm packages – and what to do about them.

Changing the process of Factory submissions with the Open Build Service

Now with every submission to Factory scripts are run automatically that do two different reviews before the package goes to human check-in review:

The “legal-auto” review checks the updated package for changes in licenses.
The “factory-auto” review checks that the updated package builds actually in the devel project – and if not, rejects it.

The “legal-auto” review has quite a long backlog at the moment and Jürgen is working on moving some of the checks to rpmlint or osc checks – so that the packager notices and fixes them before submission to Factory.

Also, you can now submit packages to Factory even if you are not the maintainer of the package but in this case the maintainer (packager) gets a review request to review that the package really can go to factory and thus a plea to packagers to handle their review requests.

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