GObject Introspection based typelib Provides and Requires
In a constant battle to improve the quality of the packages provided by the openSUSE GNOME Team, we have been working hard on additional automatism in adding Provides and Requires symbols to our...
View ArticleLibproxy 0.4.7 released
Today we released version 0.4.7 of libproxy. This version add support for Gnome 3 GSettings and bugfixes. Enjoy ! ChangeLog: * Support/require xulrunner 2.0+ * Support linking againgst libwebkit-gtk3...
View ArticleVideoLAN Repository / vlc-beta 1.2 changes
openSUSE Users! The VideoLAN Repository will get through some minor changes. Mainly affected are current users of the vlc-beta packages, BUT there is important news for all of you: The VideoLAN Project...
View ArticleEnhanced typelib based dep generation
A long time ago I posted about our inclusion of an automatic dependency generator for typelib() style provides and requires. The main goal there was to have the various seed and python based programs...
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GNOME 3.6 for openSUSE 12.2
Today is THE DAY: you get GNOME3.6 on your openSUSE 12.2 installation. The times of waiting is finally over. First of all, GNOME 3.6? What’s so cool and special that you want it? The highlights of the...
View Articlebye bye home:dimstar:broken
While preparing GNOME 3.6 for openSUSE 12.2 several of you have bravely volunteered to add home:dimstar:broken as a repository to their systems in order to pre-test GNOME 3.6 setup before we open the...
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openSUSE Conference – #oSC12 – Day 1
Having arrived already on Friday (but unfortunately too late for the openSUSE Friday Party), it was just a ‘getting up’, “enjoying” the breakfast in Hotel Krystal and heading down to the venue (which,...
View ArticleGNOME 3.6.2 to be released for openSUSE 12.2
GNOME 3.6.2 has been released a few days ago and, as my previous posts comments show, people are eager to get it. So, having done all the package updates in the last few days, having fix a few failures...
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GNOME 3.8 for openSUSE 12.3 – Call for Testers
Hi all, As some of you certainly already know, we are working hard to push GNOME 3.8 as an addon repository to you. All should be ready and a ‘test’ repository is in place (for brave souls!). The gnome...
View ArticleGNOME 3.8 for openSUSE 12.3 – GO GET IT
The openSUSE GNOME Team is proud to present you the GNOME 3.8 for openSUSE 12.3 – Repository You have eagerly been waiting for it, maybe you even dared to install the test repositories published during...
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GNOME 3.8 Classic for openSUSE 12.3
Hi all, So, you heard all the buzz about installing GNOME 3.8 on openSUSE 12.3? You love GNOME, but still are ‘stuck’ in the old way of working and heard that the ‘Classic’ mode might be the solution...
View ArticleopenSUSE 13.1 in the wild
I am delighted to see openSUSE 13.1 ‘gone wild’ and the release done. It has been a turbulent time in the last few months: A lot of contributors met in Greece for the yearly face-to-face conference, as...
View Articlegobject-introspection based dependencies – take 3
For a long time, openSUSE has been parsing JavaScript and python script during the packaging process to identifty gobject-introspection based dependencies and translated those into rpm dependencies...
View ArticleDebug a crash after it happened – without knowing about it upfront
Do you happen to find yourself in the situation that you have a program crash every now and then, but whenever this happens to you, you did not start the app in gdb? Then I know that feeling; this...
View ArticleopenSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2015/42
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, It only took ten days since the last snapshot. IT could be worse.. reasons are some issues to fix, some resource deviation (Leap RC1 has been released), so OBS and...
View ArticleopenSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2015/43
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, Tumbleweed is a bit of a quiet place these days… as you can imagine, resources are almost completely redirected to openSUSE Leap 42.1 – that’s contributor and CPU...
View ArticleopenSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2015/44
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, Week 44 was a hectic one in the light of Leap (preparations of Goldmaster), so not too much happened on the Tumbleweed side… ‘only’ one release (20151022), but that...
View ArticleopenSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2015/45
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, In the last week, there have been many more exciting things than Tumbleweed updates! You know what I’m talking about. RIGHT, I mean the openSUSE Leap 42.1 release and...
View ArticleopenSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2015/46
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, During this week we were fortunate to receive 3 snapshots. So plenty of room for many updates. The most important parts in those snapshots were: Linux Kernel 4.3...
View ArticleopenSUSE Tumbleweed – Review of the week 2015/47
Dear Tumbleweed users and hackers, It’s been another week in which the weed has been steadily tumbling. A solid three snapshots have been published this week (with a 4th one being tested right now in...
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