Here's a short note as to the status of some recent activity in the openSUSE:Tumbleweed repo:

• the kernel is at the 2.6.38 release level tracking the upstream stable 2.6.38 releases.
• lxde (and its sub-packages) was added
• calibre was added
• other smaller packages were added
• KDE update seems stable and working. It's in the openSUSE:Tumbleweed:KDE repo if anyone wants to test it out now. I'll be working next few weeks to merge this into the main openSUSE:Tumbleweed repo as my bandwidth allows.
• There is a GNOME 3.0 Tumbleweed repo at openSUSE:Tumbleweed:GNOME. It's properly building right now, but the same caveats remain for the main GNOME 3.0 repo (i.e. network manager issues with KDE, and other minor stuff), so I can't merge it to the main openSUSE:Tumbleweed repo just yet. I'll wait for these changes to settle down, but if you want, feel free to try out the repo for your GNOME 3.0 systems running Tumbleweed. I'll keep it up to date as the changes merge into the main GNOME 3.0 repo.
• artwork questions were raised with one proposed logo already sent in. More to come in this area hopefully soon.
• There were a few "version downgrades" that happened as the upstream project release number was changed to reflect the basesystem release number correctly. This will probably continue to happen as this change is propagated throughout the openSUSE build system to fix up these errors by the various developers. You can safely ignore them when they happen.

As always, if anyone knows of any packages they wish to see added to Tumbleweed, please let me know.

Please read the wiki page for Tumbleweed if you have any basic questions about what it is or how to use it. Any other questions, please ask them on the opensuse-factory mailing list.

posted Fri, 22 Apr 2011 in [/suse]

Here's a short note as to the status of some recent activity in the openSUSE:Tumbleweed repo:

• the kernel is at the 2.6.38 release level
• a number of multimedia packages and libraries were updated to their Factory level
• Banshee 2 is now in the repository
• LibreOffice 3.3.2 is in the repository.
• I'm considering adding GNOME:3.0 to openSUSE:Tumbleweed when the openSUSE GNOME developers release it. It's building in a test repository right now pretty successfully, but it might be a few more weeks until it seems "ready" enough.

Note, it seems that when any package is added or updated in the openSUSE:Tumbleweed repository, LibreOffice rebuilds itself. This can be annoying for those on bandwidth-challenged network connections, and seems to be due to the dependency chain that the LibreOffice developers have defined in their .spec files. Hopefully this will be resolved for the next major release, but in the meantime, I'll try to limit library updates in openSUSE:Tumbleweed to once a week at the most unless security issues require it.

Please read the wiki page for Tumbleweed if you have any basic questions about what it is or how to use it. Any other questions, please ask them on the opensuse-factory mailing list.

posted Sat, 09 Apr 2011 in [/suse]

Here's a short note as to the status of some recent activity in the openSUSE:Tumbleweed repo:

• kernel packages finally got updated to the latest 2.6.37 release thanks to some preload package help. If there are any problems with this, please file bugs, as these will also affect the 11.4 release
• LibreOffice has been added to the repo. Any update problems please let me know, it might be a bit wierd with the OpenOffice_org packages being removed, but it worked for me in my testing.
• I'm adding all of the yast2 packages from openSUSE:11.3 and openSUSE:11.3:Update in anticipation of a libzypp update, so you will see these packages update with no change at the moment, until libzypp is checked in. This was tested to work properly in the openSUSE:Tumbleweed:Testing repo previously and should all be safe.
• aaa_base was added to the repo to get the updates that have been done in there to make this package "more sane".

Please read the wiki page for Tumbleweed if you have any basic questions about what it is or how to use it. Any other questions, please ask them on the opensuse-factory mailing list.

posted Thu, 03 Feb 2011 in [/suse]