Frugalware Bug Tracking System: {1} Active Tickets

#3592: Install of 1.0pre 2 Had Long Pauses And Lack Of Functionality

mowestusa — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 21:43:19 GMT

The Computer is a Dell Inspiron 4100 (Laptop with a non functioning LCD)
- 1Ghz Pentium III
- 256megs of RAM
- ATI Card (correctly identified in attached xorg.conf files)
- Attached to an Envision 19" LCD with native resolution of 1280x1024
When using the installer, I had difficulty with a few of the dialogues.
- It seemed to have crashed when if found the install disk, but eventually, it came up.
- I had partitioned it and had the following three partitions:
   - 10gig ext3 for /
   - 9.4gig ext3 for /home
   - 500megs Linux Swap
- When I had to choose a swap partition, the menu did not let me do anything. I could not highlight any of the partitions, and only the first one was highlighted automatically. So I simply pressed enter, and eventually it went on with the install. (I still don't know if that worked or not.)
- When I went to format, it zipped by the question for the / partition, and just automatically formatted it reseirfs. The second partition I was able to select ext3.
- Finally, the set up of graphics became impossible, and i had to cancel that part and finish the install. It would not let me put in my native resolution of 1280x1024.

#3708: segmentation fault at root password set in installer

Longo — Sun, 22 Mar 2009 08:01:03 GMT

I made an installation by DVD i686 Ver. 1.0. "Segmentation fault" after pw confirmation "ok" pressed, no pw input possible.
Compaq Deskpro P3 800MHz, 384 MB RAM, nVidia GeForce2; 1st HD 20 GB, 2nd HD 8 GB, GRUB to root 2nd HD

#4573: LXDM: cannot login if translation contains accented letters

Ariszlo — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 10:03:02 GMT

You cannot log in if the menu translation of msgid "More ..." contains accented letters as in Hungarian msgstr "Egyéb...". Non-human users such as ftp, polkituser and rsyncd are listed in the user box but there is no "Egyéb..." (More...) for human users.
The bottom panel of LXDM displays accented letters properly. Accented letters are replaced with crossed boxes in the date and the translations of "User:" and "Password:" but the worst is the translation "More ..." which disappears without a trace.
The maintainer of LXDM is bouleetbil.

#4620: [SEC] phpmyadmin (bump to 3.4.7)

Boobaa — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 17:09:52 GMT

http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2011-16.php http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2011-15.php

#3162: segmentation fault at root password set in installer

Miklós HOMOLYA — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:45:23 GMT

I tried to install Frugalware. Everything was going flawlessly until the installation of packages. Then the installer asked me to insert other installation media, if I have any, or it will not install those packages. I selected not to install those packages because I have no other CDs. I've downloaded frugalware-0.8-i686-cd1.iso only (SHA1 checksum is correct) and I've burnt it to CD, and I installed from that CD. So I selected I have no other CDs, no problem, installer continues with installing GRUB. I installed GRUB to the boot sector of the / (root) partition. Then it asked if I want to set a root password. I answered yes, and I got a segmentation fault. :(

#4385: pacman-g2 Segfaults on -Su with http proxy

Brendan Oakley — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 14:58:59 GMT

Attempting to upgrade from -stable to -current, so there are a lot of packages to upgrade. Once it is ready to start downloading, I see this:
Total Package Size:   636.0 MB
Total Uncompressed Package Size:   2606.7 MB
Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n]
:: Retrieving packages from frugalware-current...
(  1/468) frugalware-1.4 [                ] -2147483648%       0K     0.0K/s  00:00:00
Internal pacman-g2 error: Segmentation fault
Please submit a full bug report, with the given package if appropriate.
I do not receive the error when I specify only one package. Initially received this in 1.3, but -current and latest git do the same thing. Also tested pacman-g2.static.
The gdb backtrace:
#0  0x100b9488 in strstr ()
#1  0x100317c8 in _pacman_downloadfiles_forreal (servers=0x1018e790, localpath=0xbfffbdec "/var/cache/pacman-g2/pkg", files=0x107cd0f8, mtime1=0x0, mtime2=0x0) at server.c:498
#2  0x1002fed8 in _pacman_downloadfiles (servers=0x1018e790, localpath=0xbfffbdec "/var/cache/pacman-g2/pkg", files=0x107cd0f8) at server.c:138
#3  0x1002c6dc in _pacman_sync_commit (trans=0x1019c748, db_local=0x1018e7a8, data=0xbfffef6c) at sync.c:869
#4  0x10023b70 in _pacman_trans_commit (trans=0x1019c748, data=0xbfffef6c) at trans.c:237
#5  0x1001118c in pacman_trans_commit (data=0xbfffef6c) at pacman.c:900
#6  0x1000954c in syncpkg (targets=0x0) at sync.c:605
#7  0x1000d574 in main (argc=2, argv=0xbffff234) at pacman-g2.c:649
The strstr() call in server.c:498 is:
  if(strstr(FtpLastResponse(control), "304")
The value of control->response does look strange:
(gdb) print control->response
$11 = "\000ccept-Ranges: bytes\000\000 Dec 2010 00:01:28 GMT", '\000' <repeats 211 times>
This makes me believe it could be related to my use of an http proxy. I'll try to create an isolated testcase to verify that.
Here is the entirety of *control:
(gdb) print *control
$3 = {cput = 0x0, cget = 0x0, handle = 10, cavail = 0, cleft = 0, buf = 0x0, dir = 1, ctrl = 0x0, data = 0x0, cmode = 2, idletime = {tv_sec = 1, tv_usec = 0},
  idlecb = 0x10002468 <log_progress>, idlearg = 0xbfff5d20, xfered = 25636, cbbytes = 10240, xfered1 = 2468,
  response = "\000ccept-Ranges: bytes\000\000 Dec 2010 00:01:28 GMT", '\000' <repeats 211 times>}
(gdb)

#4458: apache - Segmentation fault on PUT request

Feher Attila — Mon, 04 Apr 2011 14:11:32 GMT

*** what is the problem :
master # curl -T /tmp/cal.txt http://localhost/cal.txt
curl: (52) Empty reply from server
master # lwp-request -m PUT http://localhost/cal.txt < /tmp/cal.txt
500 Server closed connection without sending any data back
master # cat /var/log/httpd/error_log
[Mon Apr 04 16:25:41 2011] [notice] child pid 6553 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
[Mon Apr 04 16:25:59 2011] [notice] child pid 6537 exit signal Segmentation fault (11)
Note that earlier PUTing with netcat, awk and bash also worked.
The problem was noticed today, probably on the first PUT attempt after updating the apache package to 2.2.17-3.

#3728: Netinstall installer loop

Ittzes Peter — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:24:28 GMT

The problem is similar to #3322. I tried to install 1.0 from the frugalware-1.0-i686-net.iso image. Everything was fine until package selection step. After selecting advanced or simple package selection method the installer stepped back to the installer task selection panel just like in bug report #3322 but it happened in both case.

#4367: openshot segmentation fault

ki kadf — Sun, 07 Nov 2010 08:23:38 GMT

$ openshot
--------------------------------
   OpenShot (version 1.2.2)
--------------------------------
Process no longer exists: 3244.  Creating new pid lock file.
/usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/openshot/windows/SimpleGtkBuilderApp.py:32: GtkWarning: Invalid input string
  self.builder.add_from_file(path)
Segmentation fault
$
$ gdb python

#4301: [REQ] Quantum GIS and postgis request

G Gabor — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:03:43 GMT

I'd like to use the Quantum GIS app and postgis http://www.qgis.org/
and the postgis extension for postgreSQL. http://postgis.refractions.net/
Please add this packages to the repository.
G abor

#4374: Etoile depends on libgnustep-base.so.1.18 while GNUstep offers libgnustep-base.so.1.20

Sylwester Arabas — Tue, 16 Nov 2010 16:59:25 GMT

I've just tried to install Etoile both using the -stable and the -current repositories. In both cases I get unresolved library dependencies:
# ldd /usr/lib/GNUstep/System/Tools/etoile_system
        linux-vdso.so.1 =>  (0x00007fffa797f000)
        libEtoileFoundation.so.0 => /usr/lib/GNUstep/Local/Library/Libraries/libEtoileFoundation.so.0 (0x00007f13e2230000)
        libgnustep-gui.so.0.16 => not found
        libdbus-1.so.3 => /usr/lib/libdbus-1.so.3 (0x00007f13e1ff4000)
        libpthread.so.0 => /lib/libpthread.so.0 (0x00007f13e1dd7000)
        librt.so.1 => /lib/librt.so.1 (0x00007f13e1bcf000)
        libgnustep-base.so.1.18 => not found
        libobjc.so.2 => /usr/lib/libobjc.so.2 (0x00007f13e19b7000)
        libm.so.6 => /lib/libm.so.6 (0x00007f13e1735000)
        libc.so.6 => /lib/libc.so.6 (0x00007f13e13cd000)
        libObjectiveC2.so.0 => /usr/lib/GNUstep/Local/Library/Libraries/libObjectiveC2.so.0 (0x00007f13e11c5000)
        libEtoileThread.so.0 => /usr/lib/GNUstep/Local/Library/Libraries/libEtoileThread.so.0 (0x00007f13e0fbc000)
        libEtoileXML.so.0 => /usr/lib/GNUstep/Local/Library/Libraries/libEtoileXML.so.0 (0x00007f13e0d99000)
        /lib64/ld-linux-x86-64.so.2 (0x00007f13e2490000)
        libgnustep-base.so.1.18 => not found
        libgcc_s.so.1 => /usr/lib/libgcc_s.so.1 (0x00007f13e0b88000)
        libgnustep-base.so.1.18 => not found
        libgnustep-base.so.1.18 => not found
# ls -la /usr/lib/GNUstep/Local/Library/Libraries/libgnustep-base.so*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      23 Jul 11 14:21 /usr/lib/GNUstep/Local/Library/Libraries/libgnustep-base.so -> libgnustep-base.so.1.20*
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root      25 Jul 11 14:21 /usr/lib/GNUstep/Local/Library/Libraries/libgnustep-base.so.1.20 -> libgnustep-base.so.1.20.1*
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 6366189 Jul 11 14:21 /usr/lib/GNUstep/Local/Library/Libraries/libgnustep-base.so.1.20.1*

#4574: mbrola - Segmentation fault

Feher Attila — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 15:58:33 GMT

*** what is the problem :
master # mbrola -i
Segmentation fault
*** what the log says :
master # tail -1 /var/log/messages
Aug 31 18:57:08 master kernel: mbrola[8965]: segfault at 1c ip b76a3b14 sp bfca2968 error 4 in libc-2.14.so[b765f000+171000]
*** what is installed :
master # pacman -Qi mbrola | grep Version
Version        : 301h-2

#4580: Kernel panic with kernel 3.0

Anthony Jorion — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 07:03:23 GMT

Hi,
I've installed, yesterday evening, Frugalware in VMWARE.
Installation was good. After reboot, The systems inits but fails on a kernel panic.
A screenshot is attached.
It does it also on my desktop, running only Frugalware -current.

#4530: [REQ] please enable multithread media playback

Peter Szabo — Tue, 19 Jul 2011 12:42:37 GMT

Today's SMP systems can playback HD content by utilizing all available cores in a given system. As far as i saw, no media player / libraries is compiled in 1.4 to utilize more than 1 core. Please consider enabling this feautre if circumstances permit.

#3145: pacman-g2 error with tr_TR.utf8 locale

Ufuk Kilicaslan — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 20:18:42 GMT

Hello, when I set locale in /etc/sysconfig/language as tr_TR.utf8 , I get error when using pacman-g2.error:
failed to parse config (syntax error in config file)
If I set it to tr_TR , it works but I can not view Turkish characters correctly. But both Turkish character support and pacman-g2 works when I set locale as en_US.utf8 .
Thanks.

#3486: PECL still problematic

Krisztian VASAS — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 22:17:45 GMT

$ sudo pecl install PDO
downloading PDO-1.0.3.tgz ...
Starting to download PDO-1.0.3.tgz (52,613 bytes)
.............done: 52,613 bytes
12 source files, building
running: phpize
Configuring for:
PHP Api Version:         20041225
Zend Module Api No:      20060613
Zend Extension Api No:   220060519
configure.in:77: warning: AC_CACHE_VAL(lt_prog_compiler_static_works, ...): suspicious cache-id, must contain _cv_ to be cached
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:1974: AC_CACHE_VAL is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:1994: AC_CACHE_CHECK is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:3526: AC_LIBTOOL_LINKER_OPTION is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:5464: _LT_AC_LANG_C_CONFIG is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:5463: AC_LIBTOOL_LANG_C_CONFIG is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:2943: AC_LIBTOOL_SETUP is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:2923: _AC_PROG_LIBTOOL is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:2886: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL is expanded from...
configure.in:77: the top level
configure.in:77: warning: AC_CACHE_VAL(lt_prog_compiler_pic_works, ...): suspicious cache-id, must contain _cv_ to be cached
aclocal.m4:3481: AC_LIBTOOL_COMPILER_OPTION is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:7591: AC_LIBTOOL_PROG_COMPILER_PIC is expanded from...
configure.in:77: warning: AC_CACHE_VAL(lt_prog_compiler_pic_works_CXX, ...): suspicious cache-id, must contain _cv_ to be cached
aclocal.m4:5577: _LT_AC_LANG_CXX_CONFIG is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:5576: AC_LIBTOOL_LANG_CXX_CONFIG is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:4612: _LT_AC_TAGCONFIG is expanded from...
configure.in:77: warning: AC_CACHE_VAL(lt_prog_compiler_static_works, ...): suspicious cache-id, must contain _cv_ to be cached
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:1974: AC_CACHE_VAL is expanded from...
../../lib/autoconf/general.m4:1994: AC_CACHE_CHECK is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:3526: AC_LIBTOOL_LINKER_OPTION is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:5464: _LT_AC_LANG_C_CONFIG is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:5463: AC_LIBTOOL_LANG_C_CONFIG is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:2943: AC_LIBTOOL_SETUP is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:2923: _AC_PROG_LIBTOOL is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:2886: AC_PROG_LIBTOOL is expanded from...
configure.in:77: the top level
configure.in:77: warning: AC_CACHE_VAL(lt_prog_compiler_pic_works, ...): suspicious cache-id, must contain _cv_ to be cached
aclocal.m4:3481: AC_LIBTOOL_COMPILER_OPTION is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:7591: AC_LIBTOOL_PROG_COMPILER_PIC is expanded from...
configure.in:77: warning: AC_CACHE_VAL(lt_prog_compiler_pic_works_CXX, ...): suspicious cache-id, must contain _cv_ to be cached
aclocal.m4:5577: _LT_AC_LANG_CXX_CONFIG is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:5576: AC_LIBTOOL_LANG_CXX_CONFIG is expanded from...
aclocal.m4:4612: _LT_AC_TAGCONFIG is expanded from...
ERROR: `phpize' failed
The error exist on other PECL packages.

#3952: Error messages during boot

Thomas Legrand — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 06:05:17 GMT

Hello,
That was a moment that I have this error messages during the Frugalware boot in verbose mode but I didn't take the initiative to report them.
I am on a laptop Packard Bell SL-81 B 001FR with an ATi Mobility Radeon HD3650 and a AMD Turion X2 processor. This is the laptop configuration :
http://support.packardbell.com/uk/item/index.php?i=spec_vesuvio_ap
The errors messages which appears are :
ata4 : softreset failed (device not ready)
ata2 : softreset failed (device not ready)
ata1 : softreset failed (device not ready)
I attached a dmesg
Can you take a look, please ?
Thank you

#3972: Segmentation fault in installer

Pawel Szubert — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 08:37:27 GMT

When - for some reasons - you decide to interrupt the installer (in my case it was netinstall) and then start it again (restart the computer) using partitioning from previous install WITHOUT formatting (I wanted to use previously downloaded packages in /mnt/target/var/cache/pacman-g2/pkg - slow net connection) the installer crashes with segfault after choosing packages.
I repeated it twice or three times, doesn't matter if choosing exactly the same packages or changing my prev choice.
The message was "transaction already started" or something like that - sorry, haven't written it down - it was very late and I was in a hurry to finish my work.
Seems like pacman-g2 found a lock in /var/run and could not deal with it.
Szubi

#4442: Fontforge - various problems

David McCann — Fri, 04 Mar 2011 11:46:17 GMT

Fontforge has been compiled to use libpython2.6 but the library supplied is version 2.7.
All text in the program is displayed with spaces between the letters, making it very difficult to use.
The program doesn't show in the Xfce menu; I only knew it was there because I noticed it being installed.

#4449: Refresh bug

devone — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 08:46:25 GMT

refresh bug, some event X (related to some action on the keyboard) causes full refresh visible and some window, with mga driver for a card to be announced and clearly visible in gnome.

#4477: nouveau: bug with shader used in gnome-shell applications view

Cédrick — Fri, 29 Apr 2011 05:52:18 GMT

Applications screen
Description of problem: Some icons in the application item in Frugalware 1.5 are blury and
white. I will give a screenshot.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
gnome-shell-3.0.1-1
How reproducible: always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to Activities
2. Then Applications
3.
Actual results: See screenshot
I found some info that exactly match my problem. Same video card as me.
An update to version 7.11 mesa will correct this problem.
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=692026

#4492: Accents problem (French language) on LibreOffice and IRSSI (via XTerm)

Thomas Legrand — Tue, 17 May 2011 20:05:55 GMT

Hi,
I got accents problems on LibreOffice and IRSSI (using XTerm). The problem is for stressed character like ê, â, ë, ä. When we must use two key to make one character with the French keymap.
For example, LibreOffice take the "^" char and the "e" char as two characters whereas, with the real French keymap, we type the "^" key to lock it, then we type the "e" key to create the "ê" character.
Do you follow?
In the French channel of IRC, Baste found a temporary solution : launch libreoffice in a command prompt with "LC_ALL=fr_FR libreoffice".
I am using the French keymap :
keymap=fr-latin9
My locale is (because I want the English as default language for Frugalware) :
LANG=en_US
To finish, my /etc/sysconfig/language got :
export LANG=en_US.utf8
export LC_ALL=$LANG
export CHARSET=utf-8
I repeat that I got this problem with IRSSI (through XTerm and Libreoffice). But, to create this task, I am using Firefox and the stressed characters work good (ê, ä, ë, â). That works in GVim and XPad, too.
So, have you got a solution, please? I am not the only French with that problem.

#4519: character not appearing when charset on fr_FR.utf8

Guillaume Douté — Sun, 26 Jun 2011 22:23:30 GMT

--- Description ---
Before starting X, pressing special caracters on the terminal doesn't make them appear at first.
eg : pressing "é" once won't make the caracter appear, pressing it a second time does make it appear.
When pressing a none special character appears first the special character that didn't appear AND the "standard" character
bug doesn't manifest itself when X is launched and when I'm using the sakura terminal emulator (or any other emulators)
--- how to reproduce ---
- install frugalware-current
- follow wiki to set fr_FR.utf8
--- equipement ---
-laptop : dell inspiron 1525
--- other ---
using keyboard layout in fr-dvorak-bepo

#4572: kana-no-quiz - Problem with psyco

Feher Attila — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 09:17:54 GMT

*** what is the problem :
master # kana-no-quiz
Loading psyco... psyco loaded.
c/mergepoints.c:585: iblock > 0
Fatal Python error: Psyco assertion failed
Aborted
*** what is installed :
master # pacman -Qi kananoquiz | grep Version
Version        : 1.9-3
master # pacman -Qi psyco | grep Version
Version        : 1.6-3
*** what _may_ be a solution :
Update the kananoquiz package :
master # lynx -dump -nolist http://developer.berlios.de/projects/kana-no-quiz | grep -A 1 Version | tail -1
    Kana-no-quiz 1.9.5 July 17, 2009 Release Notes - Monitor This Package

#1192: [REQ] how to use netinst from behind a proxy?

CSÉCSY László — Fri, 22 Sep 2006 12:21:54 GMT

As of 0.5, netinst (and no other installer) has any option to enter proxy settings, which prevents netinstalling from behind a proxy. As it would be only two options (proxy's name and port), please do add a solution for it. (Maybe setup should have an "expert mode", which differs from "normal mode" by having support for proxies, lvm, raid, etc?)

#3163: [REQ] more feedback during install

Miklós HOMOLYA — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 10:51:37 GMT

The installer calls mkfs and badblocks with "2>&1 >/dev/null", so the user does not get any detailed information what is actually happening. I thing the output of these programs should be redirected to another tty (such as with grub-install), so users could have more feedback what is actually happening. It would also help detecting bugs affecting these programs or the installer's use of these programs.

#3200: [REQ]Choice between left-handed and right-handed mouse

Thomas Legrand — Tue, 01 Jul 2008 14:04:07 GMT

Hello,
I'm a left-handed, but, before, I used my mouse like a right-handed. Now, I have to use it like a left-handed because my mouse buttons are very... hard for my finger. So, it will be possible to have the choice between a right-handed and a left-handed buttons assignation in the future, during the installation like the choice of the keyboard map or the choice of the language, please ?
It is not a request with a selfish goal :-s. Before, I didn't seen that there were left-handed people who had troubles with it :-s. And I think that request will make Frugalware more... convivial for users, no ?
Thank you to read this post and to think about the minority of the left-handed :-)

#2504: pacman-g2: fileconflict vs replaces

CSÉCSY László — Thu, 18 Oct 2007 13:43:20 GMT

If I have both a replaces and a fileconflict in the same run of pacman-g2 -Syu, the replaces pkg does not get installed.
My scenario: pacman-g2 -Syu on a remote box, upgrading 0.6->0.7, following the docs (http://frugalware.org/docs/stable/upgrade). After the second reboot I couldn't reach the box, since there was no /bin/mount. The reason: util-linux-ng haven't been installed (which has replaced util-linux, which owned this file), since I had a fileconflict as well.
My 2 cents: if pacman-g2 sees both fileconflict and replaces in the same run, then (try to) explicitly install (again) the new stuff (in my example above: util-linux-ng) after anything. It is quite horrible not being able to do anything with the box without an install CD after an upgrade...

#1942: [REQ] pacman parameter/option to install local pkg's using dependencies

Finn — Thu, 12 Apr 2007 15:22:55 GMT

A paramater like "-e" , but one that is using local FrugalBuild for the depends info instead of SYNC one's. That would be real nice to have included, so installing packages, that were built in chroot is more straightforward and easy.
maybe -E or so :)

#3332: [REQ] pacman gpg support, https support for forums/bugs

Richard — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 01:23:37 GMT

I have submitted a feature request for GPG authentication of packages by the package manager before.  However, after reading this article...
http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/08/revealed-the-in.html
I believe the issue of authentication should be upgraded to a security related feature.  Also, I would like to suggest using the https protocol for logins into both the Frugalware forums and the bug-tracking system.  I believe the design flaw mentioned in the article could cause a serious man in the middle style attack upon the package management system if the package system doesn't bother to verify that downloaded packages are official.  Likewise, such a attack may also target the Frugalware forums and the bug-tracking system - potentially compromising passwords.
In short, my recommendations would be to...
1.  Add some sort of authentication to the Frugalware package management system for downloaded content.  (Perhaps GPG signatures.)
2.  Use https for logins to both the Frugalware forums and the bug-tracking system.

#3970: [REQ] netinstall: keep network settings

Gabor Locsei — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 19:47:10 GMT

Hello,
For netinstall, please provide an option to keep initial network settings (IP, netmask, gateway, nameserver, DSL connection...), because I think it is quite common to use the required final settings for the installation.
*Maybe* selecting a preferred mirror would also make sense, for example, at the top of the list, one could see these lines:
[frugalware]
# This is your preferred server set at installation time:
Server = ftp://ftp4.frugalware.org/pub/linux/distributions/frugalware/frugalware-stable/frugalware-x86_64
# the rest
(In the current version, you must input network settings twice: both at the beginning and at the end.)
best regards
LGee

#4625: UTF-8 by default (Installer)

Devil505 — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:07:20 GMT

Make UTF-8 by default with the Installer

#4643: [SEC] phpmyadmin (bumped to 3.4.9, need FSA)

Boobaa — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:26:24 GMT

http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2011-20.php http://www.cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-4780

#4644: [SEC] wordpress (bump to 3.3.1, needs FSA)

Boobaa — Sat, 07 Jan 2012 08:28:07 GMT

http://wordpress.org/news/2012/01/wordpress-3-3-1/

#4646: [SEC] php (bump to 5.3.9)

Boobaa — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 22:02:51 GMT

http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html http://www.php.net/archive/2012.php#id2012-01-11-1 http://www.php.net/ChangeLog-5.php#5.3.9 Only on i686: https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=60150

#4650: [SEC] wireshark (bump to 1.6.5, needs FSA)

Boobaa — Wed, 25 Jan 2012 12:12:13 GMT

#4639: Optional dependencies for pacman

Lenezir — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 18:18:38 GMT

Hi. :) I am currently testing Arch and there is a very useful feature of pacman that is missing on Frug: optional dependencies. When installing a package, at the end displays the list of dependencies that can be very useful, such as codecs for audio players. I hope you'll add this soon. :) Thanks.

eg with "clementine"

[lenezir@trelis ~]$ yaourt -S clementine
résolution des dépendances...
recherche des conflits entre paquets...
Cibles (7): liblastfm-0.3.3-2  libplist-1.4-1  usbmuxd-1.0.7-2
            libimobiledevice-1.1.1-2  mutagen-1.20-3  libgpod-0.8.2-2
            clementine-0.7.1-7
Taille totale des paquets (téléchargement):   4,18 Mo
Taille totale des paquets (installation):   19,34 Mo
Procéder à l'installation ? [O/n]
:: Récupération des paquets du dépôt extra...
 liblastfm-0.3.3-2-...   136,8K   65,7K/s 00:00:02 [######################] 100%
 libplist-1.4-1-x86_64    85,9K   71,4K/s 00:00:01 [######################] 100%
 usbmuxd-1.0.7-2-x86_64   30,3K   98,6K/s 00:00:00 [######################] 100%
 libimobiledevice-1...   216,6K   84,0K/s 00:00:03 [######################] 100%
 mutagen-1.20-3-any      128,7K   83,0K/s 00:00:02 [######################] 100%
 libgpod-0.8.2-2-x86_64  459,6K   85,8K/s 00:00:05 [######################] 100%
:: Récupération des paquets du dépôt community...
 clementine-0.7.1-7...     3,1M   86,2K/s 00:00:37 [######################] 100%
(7/7) vérification de l'intégrité des paquets      [######################] 100%
(7/7) analyse des conflits entre fichiers          [######################] 100%
(1/7) installation de liblastfm                    [######################] 100%
(2/7) installation de libplist                     [######################] 100%
(3/7) installation de usbmuxd                      [######################] 100%
(4/7) installation de libimobiledevice             [######################] 100%
(5/7) installation de mutagen                      [######################] 100%
(6/7) installation de libgpod                      [######################] 100%
Dépendances optionnelles pour libgpod
    gtk-sharp-2: Mono bindings
(7/7) installation de clementine                   [######################] 100%
Dépendances optionnelles pour clementine
    gstreamer0.10-base-plugins: for more open formats
    gstreamer0.10-good-plugins: for use with "Good" plugin libraries
    gstreamer0.10-bad-plugins: for use with "Bad" plugin libraries
    gstreamer0.10-ugly-plugins: for use with "Ugly" plugin libraries

#4645: [REQUEST] Package for newly open sourced linux game, Beret

mizerydearia — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 19:52:00 GMT

I would like to help spread availability of a linux game that has been recently open sourced by encouraging it to be included in package repositories. I don't use Frugalwre and am not familiar with pacman and would like to request if anyone else is available to prepare a package for the game. See http://www.indiedb.com/games/beret/forum/thread/open-source

#4649: system encryption with luks

radioactive — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 13:45:49 GMT

One of my must have features in an distribution is the possibility to encrypt the whole system except for /boot. You can find an detailed howto on the Arch Wiki or for Ubuntu.

Generally it isn't very hard. Frugalware have a live system (still beta, i know) and there you can install cryptsetup-luks from the repos, partition your harddrive (ca. 200MB for /boot and the rest for the encryption, name it sda2), encrypt sda2 with luks, create a lvm volume inside the luks volume, create "logical partitions" there.

Up to this point there are no problems with frugalware. But when you start the installation with fwife, it doesn't recognize the lvm volumes. This is a big problem.

Further i don't know, even if the installation would succeed, if the frugalware kernel has enough modules loaded to boot lvm volumes from such encryptet partitions.

I think it would be very great if frugalware makes it possible to install a fully encrypted system. Unfortunately till then i'm not gonna install it on my notebook:p

I don't have a very deep knowledge of the exact implementation of encryption methods, so i thing maybe i can't help (maybe at least a little).

By the way: the prettiest way to encrypt the system would be a possibility of encryption in the installer, but i understand if this would be too difficult.

#4651: Netbeans

Drunken Kiwi — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:27:14 GMT

Is it possible to put netbeans in the current repository. Thanks in advance

#4621: Replacing GRUB by GRUB2

Devil505 — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 06:12:36 GMT

Taken from TODO wiki page.

Will be delayed for 1.7

#4624: LIBPNG 1.5

Devil505 — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:05:51 GMT

For LIBPNG 1.5 bump, we'll need to a massive revdep rebuild

#4626: FWlive (live-cd project)

Devil505 — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:08:36 GMT

Make FWlive back (live-cd project)

#4627: Homepage revisited

Devil505 — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:10:02 GMT

Homepage revisited

See http://wiki.frugalware.org/index.php/Homepage_revisited

#4628: XFCE 4.10

Devil505 — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 15:11:16 GMT

XFCE 4.10 Migration

Delayed for 1.7

#4629: Pacman support for Packagekit

Devil505 — Tue, 25 Oct 2011 16:17:07 GMT

Pacman support for Packagekit

#4648: Improved /etc/issue ?

Devil505 — Sat, 21 Jan 2012 16:11:19 GMT

On Ubuntu, the tty login message looks great, see

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7123886/IMG_20120121_171546.jpg

I like the number of updates for example.

Maybe is it possible to make the similar thing on Frugalware.

Miklos I attribute the feature report to you because you're the owner of frugalware package providing /etc/issue

Thanks

#4568: procmail

CSÉCSY László — Sun, 28 Aug 2011 19:18:06 GMT

Using procmail-3.22-4 from ~/.forward like this:
boobaa@foo:~$ cat .forward
"|procmail -f-"
boobaa@foo:~$ cat .procmailrc
SHELL=/bin/sh
MAILDIR=$HOME/Maildir/
DEFAULT=${MAILDIR}/
LOGFILE=${MAILDIR}/procmail-bogo.log
LINEBUF=4096
FORMAIL=/usr/bin/formail
#SPAMC=/usr/bin/spamc
#SPAMC_FLAGS=" -s 2048000 "
VERBOSE=no
COMSAT=no
LOG=""
# Send a copy to _THE_ interface
:0 c
! boobaa@example.com
# First throw it through bogofilter...
:0fw
| /usr/bin/bogofilter -uep
# ...then filter out the spam...
:0:
* ^X-Bogosity: Spam
.spam/
# ...then filter out those not recognized by bogofilter...
:0:
* ^X-Bogosity: Unsure
.junktodo/
# ...and accept all the rest to your default mailbox
:0:
${DEFAULT}
boobaa@foo:~$
The first rule (which I have inserted this week) fails on a -stable (1.5) box, so my mail does not get forwarded; instead, ~/Maildir/procmail-bogo.log is appended with the following message for every email:
/bin/sh: n: No such file or directory
I have tried it both on my own -stable box and genesis, with the same (non-)result. Downgrading to procmail-3.22-3 solves the issue on my own box, which is weird, since Frugalware ships procmail-3.22-4 since ages (something like 0.8(!) or such).

#4569: sysklogd

Sébastien VINCENT — Mon, 29 Aug 2011 15:31:20 GMT

Hi,
I just installed FW 1.5 x86_64, just the base group.
I have just seen that there is a problem with sysklogd.
 root@Fw_Build:~# systemctl restart syslog.service
  syslogd: unknown facility name "athpriv"
  syslogd: unknown priority name "one"
 root@Fw_Build:~# pacman -Ss sysklogd
 frugalware/base sysklogd-1.5-9 [Installed: 1.5-9] [Desc: Linux system logging utilities]
And missing some files in /var/log ( messages and syslog)
With FW 1.5 i686 no problem.

#4601: libtinfo.so.5 missing

Cory Burgett — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:29:46 GMT

Some applications (including the FreePascal IDE, fp) are linked to libtinfo.so.5 which was not installed with ncurses. This issue is resolved by symlinking /lib/libncurses.so.5 to /lib/libtinfo.so.5.

#2702: scim trying to start every time a terminal is opened

Marcin Psiurski — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 17:31:35 GMT

I recently changed a line in /etc/profile.d/scim.sh from:
     scim -d
to
     export XIM_PROGRAM="scim -d"
It solves the problem of an instance of scim being (unsuccessfully) started every time I opened a terminal window.

#3355: fun - segmentation fault

HÃ©der BalÃ¡zs — Mon, 22 Sep 2008 11:16:25 GMT

Hi,
FS#3102 is just now closed and an other bug is found in FUN:
Running Frugalware update notifier (0.3.1), after a while it exits
with segmentation fault:
$ fun
ERROR: Method invoked for PerformUpdate returned FALSE but did not set error
ERROR: Method invoked for PerformUpdate returned FALSE but did not set error
ERROR: Method invoked for PerformUpdate returned FALSE but did not set error
ERROR: Method invoked for PerformUpdate returned FALSE but did not set error
Segmentation fault

#3688: [Fun] When I open a window of Gfpm by fun and I close Gfpm, fun sometimes disappear

Julien — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 19:55:55 GMT

Hi !
So, when I open a window of Gfpm by fun button and I close Gfpm, fun sometimes disappear of the KDE tray icon... Sometimes it just disappear during few seconds, it's random...
Can you do something (I precise, I've done a symbolic link between autostart KDE and fun program...)
Thank you in advance !

#3778: Don't Detect if nework can't be configure (USB Netinstall)

Kévin Bellisario — Fri, 15 May 2009 10:48:44 GMT

With the USB Netinstall, when the installer trying to configure network, if the operation failled no message say it and the installation continue normaly.
And when comme the time to choose packets, (Expert or Not) the installer return to the main menu (Where you can choose the step of installation) and say "You have choose to cancel one step".

#3780: Installer

Kévin Bellisario — Sat, 16 May 2009 12:12:09 GMT

With the usb netinstall, I did some choose about package which must be installed or not. Especialy I have unchecked KDE and XFCE, but the installer download and install still them.
In all case, 1170 package are downloaded and installed.

#3782: Segfault in Installer

Tibor Baksa — Mon, 18 May 2009 16:10:19 GMT

If you try to install Frugalware current to a particion whitch has no free space, the Installer will crash with segfault at the package selection.

#3918: some apps don't show in lxde menu due to restriction in .desktop

pizux — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 21:10:47 GMT

some .desktop files from /usr/share/applications needs to be change because of restrictions ; OnlyShowIn=gnome;xfce;or kde  so they don't appears in lxde menu !
 here is a small list of the .desktop i have noticed , but  got only few apps on my computer :
gfpm.desktop
gnetconfig.desktop
gservice.desktop
abiword.desktop
thanks in advance for lxde users :p

#3986: firefox-spell-hu is incompatible with firefox 3.5.3

HÃ©der BalÃ¡zs — Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:39:30 GMT

Hi,
The firefox-spell-hu (1.4-1) package (which is shipped with frugalware current) is incompatible with firefox 3.5.3, so Hungarian spell checking doen't work...
(Magyarispell project (http://magyarispell.sourceforge.net) has recently released a new version of hungarian dictionary (1.5).)

#4365: ratpoison segfault with fix

Tamás Varjú — Wed, 03 Nov 2010 08:13:45 GMT

I ran into a bug in ratpoison, which gives a segfault.  It seems that there is a fix:
http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/ratpoison-devel/2010-10/msg00006.html
setup:
$ pacman -Q ratpoison
ratpoison 1.4.5-1
$ cat .xinitrc
/usr/bin/xrandr --newmode 1680x1050 146.25  1680 1784 1960 2240  1050 1053 1059 1089 -hsync +vsync
/usr/bin/xrandr --addmode VGA1 1680x1050
/usr/bin/xrandr --output VGA1 --mode 1680x1050 --above LVDS1
/usr/bin/ratpoison
bug:
swapping (C-t x) between the monitors results in a segfault at the next ratpoison command, whatever it is.

#4543: udev install script has an error when udev installs during OS installation

Rob McCathie — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 23:03:29 GMT

During the installation of 1.5, when udev was initially installed the following error was printed:
/var/lib/pacman-g2/local/udev-172-3/install: line 27: /usr/sbin/groupadd: No such file or directory
(re)installing udev post installation doesn't generate this error, as by then shadow has been installed and groupadd exists.
Looking at udev.install the related line is:
getent group storage >/dev/null || /usr/sbin/groupadd -g 30 storage
I'm not sure if failing to create the storage group causes any problems as one of the first things i did post installation was re-install the udev package to see if it still generated this error, thus I now have the storage group created. I can say that it not being created didn't prevent me from booting for the first time.

#4583: [SEC] openttd

Miklos Vajna — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:24:07 GMT

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/5817
We should update to 1.1.3 ASAP when it'll be available.

#4587: [SEC] php

Miklos Vajna — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 16:08:48 GMT

need to upgrade to 5.3.8 in stable:
https://secunia.com/advisories/45678/

#4611: [SEC] phpmyadmin (bump to 3.4.5)

CSÉCSY László — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:34:51 GMT

http://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/security/PMASA-2011-14.php

#4612: [SEC] squirrelmail (bump to 1.4.22)

CSÉCSY László — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:13:15 GMT

http://squirrelmail.org/index.php (there's no deeplink there)

#4613: [SEC] wireshark (bump to 1.6.2)

CSÉCSY László — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 08:24:38 GMT

http://www.wireshark.org/docs/relnotes/wireshark-1.6.2.html

#676: [REQ] Please add g++ to the mingw-gcc package

Ron Aaron — Thu, 27 Apr 2006 05:51:26 GMT

The mingw-gcc package does not currently have "g++"

#1321: [REQ] mysql-doc package

Rohan Dhruva — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 11:04:10 GMT

Please add a package containing the docs of mysql ...
http://dev.mysql.com/doc/
if possible. Thanks !

#1408: [REQ] spice

Rohan Dhruva — Wed, 01 Nov 2006 14:31:31 GMT

SPICE is a really useful program for learning and understanding electrical circuits. Can someone please add it to the repo :
Home Page: http://bwrc.eecs.berkeley.edu/Classes/IcBook/SPICE/
Download Page: http://embedded.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/downloads/spice/index.htm
(BTW, afaik no other distro has spice in their repo.. We could be the first ? :)
Thanks !

#1487: [REQ] openswan - an ipsec implementation

Michael Surette — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 18:55:28 GMT

Openswan is an Open Source implementation of IPsec for the Linux operating system. Is it a code fork of the FreeS/WAN project, started by a few of the developers who were growing frustrated with the politics surrounding the FreeS/WAN project.

#1866: [REQ] Cracklib PHP Extension

Isaac Johnston — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:48:42 GMT

http://pecl.php.net/package/crack
"This package provides an interface to the cracklib (libcrack) libraries that come standard on most unix-like distributions. This allows you to check passwords against dictionaries of words to ensure some minimal level of password security."

#1868: [REQ] PHP Extension Configuration Improvement

Isaac Johnston — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:22:54 GMT

I suggest adding --with-config-file-scan-dir=/etc/php.d to the php configuration directive so extension packages can simply add a /etc/php.d/<extension name>.ini file for non-base php package configuration.

#1870: [REQ] Request: plPHP (for PostgreSQL)

Isaac Johnston — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 13:27:19 GMT

http://www.commandprompt.com/community/plphp
"plPHP stands for Procedural Language PHP. The language has the PHP engine at its core and provides PHP scripting support for procedures and functions in PostgreSQL. Written by Command Prompt, Inc. plPHP is Open Source and licensed under the PHP license and the PostgreSQL (BSD) License."

#1875: [REQ] gwenrename

Finn — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 08:51:31 GMT

http://members.hellug.gr/sng/gwenrename/index.html
A effective batch renamer that has a nice profile support.

#2510: [REQ] GCALDaemon

Michael Loomis — Fri, 19 Oct 2007 19:20:19 GMT

I'd like to request a package for GCALDaemon which synchronizes between gmail and other mail programs.  You can find it at.
http://gcaldaemon.sourceforge.net/index.html
While it's easy enough to install on one's own, what will be useful to the non-programmer is an rc script to start the daemon.

#2521: [REQ] madedit

Nagy Gabor — Wed, 24 Oct 2007 13:37:36 GMT

Hi!
Homepage: http://madedit.sourceforge.net/

#2687: [REQ] winff

pizux — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 15:33:05 GMT

could you please add winff to current depot ?
winff is a very nice gui for FFmpeg
thanks in advance
http://biggmatt.com/winff/
http://biggmatt.com/winff/downloads/

#2789: [REQ] Honeyd

Christian Sturm — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:09:49 GMT

Honeyd is a small daemon that creates virtual hosts on a network. The hosts can be configured to run arbitrary services, and their personality can be adapted so that they appear to be running certain operating systems.
http://www.honeyd.org/

#2790: [REQ] Polipo — a caching web proxy

Christian Sturm — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 21:11:48 GMT

Nearly everyone could need a good web proxy.
Most of us are afraid of installing and maintaining one.
Polipo is the solution. It's optimized for one (or more) person(s) and basically doesn't need much more than a normal install (and staring the service).
Besides that Polipo has a lot of unique features and an easy to use configuration file.
It can be used by just having an executable and a configuration file. It's really very portable (and it should be easy to create a FrugalBuild).

#2829: [REQ] Axiom cross-platform 3D rendering engine for .NET

Francois Biot — Sat, 01 Mar 2008 19:03:00 GMT

The Axiom Engine is a high-performance C# port of the powerful OGRE engine.
Url: http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=84345
Wiki:  http://axiomengine.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page
The project seems to be very active (15 devs) and works for mono !!!

#2968: [REQ] Csound - music/audio software

Darek — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:15:12 GMT

Csound
http://csound.sourceforge.net/#Linux
Csound is a sound and music synthesis system, providing facilities for composition and performance over a wide range of platforms. It is not restricted to any style of music, having been used for many years in the creation of classical, pop, techno, ambient, experimental, and (of course) computer music, as well as music for film and television.

#2983: [REQ] CMN - music/audio software

Darek — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 00:24:24 GMT

Common Music Notation
http://ccrma.stanford.edu/software/cmn/
CMN (Common Music Notation) is a free western music notation package written in Common Lisp.

#3055: [REQ] A seperate package for the vlc plugin in Firefox

Johan — Sat, 03 May 2008 09:30:09 GMT

I would like a seperate package for the vlc firefox plug-in, its now included in the vlc package, and overrides the totem-firefox plugin unasked. (I had to rename the vlc plugin to get the totem plugin back to work.

#3394: [REQ] Apache Tomcat

Laurent Wulser — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:26:10 GMT

Apache Tomcat is a Servlet container developed by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF). Tomcat implements the Java Servlet and the JavaServer Pages (JSP) specifications from Sun Microsystems, and provides a "pure Java" HTTP web server environment for Java code to run. Tomcat should not be confused with the Apache web server, which is a C implementation of a HTTP web server; these two HTTP web servers are not bundled together. Apache Tomcat includes tools for configuration and management, but can also be configured by editing configuration files that are normally XML-formatted.
http://tomcat.apache.org/download-60.cgi

#3430: [REQ]kmldonkey

emilpoe — Wed, 29 Oct 2008 20:46:24 GMT

KMLdonkey
KMLDonkey is a frontend for MLDonkey, a powerful P2P file sharing tool, designed for the KDE desktop.
http://extragear.kde.org/apps/kmldonkey/
http://www-ftp.lip6.fr/pub/X11/kde/stable/apps/KDE3.x/network/kmldonkey-0.11.tar.gz
KMLDonkey is a good alternative to Amule.

#3531: [REQ] ArgoUML

Lenezir — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 19:03:53 GMT

- ArgoUML
- ArgoUML is the leading open source UML modeling tool and includes support for all standard UML 1.4 diagrams.
- http://argouml.tigris.org/
- http://argouml-downloads.tigris.org/nonav/argouml-0.26.2/ArgoUML-0.26.2.tar.gz
Thanks ! ;)

#3623: [REQ] partman

dysmann — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 09:05:16 GMT

I think cfdisk is very hard to use and the way of using this partition for this mount point is weird. Partman just didn't run.
I even lost my /home partition because I made an error.
I had to use another live CD for repartitioning.
I like Ubuntu's alternate partitioning way. I think you should use the same way.

#3662: [REQ] Freenet

Lenezir — Thu, 05 Mar 2009 15:26:59 GMT

- Freenet
- Freenet is free software which lets you publish and obtain information on the Internet without fear of censorship. To achieve this freedom, the network is entirely decentralized and publishers and consumers of information are anonymous.
- http://freenetproject.org/
- Download : http://freenetproject.org/download.html
Thanks. ;)

#3670: [REQ] efax

gigi — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 19:10:16 GMT

we have only hylafax for faxing?
thanks
website : http://www.cce.com/efax/

#3811: [REQ] xbmc media-center

pizux — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 21:55:57 GMT

this is a media center wich can be used with freebox ps3 and xbox
but for now only ubuntu linux get this package :(
http://www.xbmc.fr/about/
https://edge.launchpad.net/xbmc
thanks in advance

#3823: [REQ] Support for ASCII WEP key in Gnetconfig

Lenezir — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:37:44 GMT

Gnetconfig doesn't support my ASCII WEP key (13 characters).
At startup, I've the error
Error for wireless request "Set Encode" (8B2A) :
      invalid argument "my_ascii_wep_key".
Can you fix it ?
Thanks. ;)

#3824: [REQ] VPN server support for Gnetconfig

Lenezir — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 05:59:37 GMT

Can you implement support for VPN servers in Gnetconfig ?
There are three elements to implement :
- OpenVPN
- PPTP
- VPNC
This can replace the FS#3822.
Thanks. ;)

#3854: [REQ]Jruby

Daniel Exner — Fri, 10 Jul 2009 10:57:26 GMT

It would be nice to not only have ruby but jruby also.
Should depend on java I guess..
http://jruby.codehaus.org

#4255: Add VDPAU support into Mplayer

Mario — Fri, 25 Jun 2010 17:16:25 GMT

Why mplayer does not support vdpau?

#4274: [REQ] GNOME Split

Lenezir — Tue, 20 Jul 2010 08:46:52 GMT

GNOME Split.
GNOME Split is a tool that allows you to split files and merge them back.
Homepage and download : https://launchpad.net/gnome-split
Thanks. :)

#4560: Google Talk plugin package.

Sergio — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 17:04:30 GMT

The Google Talk browser plugin enables voice and video chat through Gmail (and free (?) telephone calls within the USA).
Google makes available .deb and .rpm packages for both i686 and x86_64 architectures at http://www.google.com/chat/video
Below is the content of the Debian control file for google-talkplugin_2.2.2.0-1_i386.deb:
Package: google-talkplugin
Version: 2.2.2.0-1
Architecture: i386
Maintainer: Voice and Video Chat Linux Team <voice-and-video-linux-packager@google.com>
Installed-Size: 20608
Depends: libasound2 | libpulse0, libc6 (>= 2.4), libcairo2 (>= 1.6.0), libfontconfig1 (>= 2.4.0), libfreetype6 (>= 2.3.5), libgcc1 (>= 1:4.1.1-21), libgl1-mesa-glx | libgl1, libglib2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libgtk2.0-0 (>= 2.12.0), libpng12-0 (>= 1.2.13-4), libstdc++6 (>= 4.2.1-4), libx11-6, libxcomposite1 (>= 1:0.3-1), libxfixes3 (>= 1:4.0.1), libxrandr2 (>= 2:1.2.0), libxrender1, libxt6
Recommends: libnotify-bin
Section: main/web
Priority: optional
Description: Google Talk Plugin
 The Google Talk Plugin is a browser plugin that enables you to use Google voice
 and video chat to chat face to face with family and friends.
 .
 This product includes software developed by the OpenSSL Project for use in the
 OpenSSL Toolkit (http://www.openssl.org/). This product includes cryptographic
 software written by Eric Young (eay@cryptsoft.com).

#4592: [SEC] apache

CSÉCSY László — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 06:08:38 GMT

http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.announce/60
http://httpd.apache.org/security/vulnerabilities_22.html
Apache (httpd) should be bumped to 2.2.21 in -stable, too.

#4577: chkdep returns an empty array on circular deps

Paolo — Sun, 04 Sep 2011 08:37:24 GMT

there are packages that have circular dependencies,
chkdep -t on them shows that it puts all in the ignore list since every package is provided by someone else
so the result is a ('')
as example a package you can test with is libkio

#4594: Bug in libreoffice

Xavier — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:36:19 GMT

Hi,
I have a bug in libreoffice.
When i "Save as...", a window is opening with "Error ..."
I take a screenshot:
http://pix.toile-libre.org/upload/original/1316107930.png
Sincerely,
Springbank

#4599: No resize on Youtube with Firefox 6.0.2 & Flash 10.3

Lenezir — Thu, 22 Sep 2011 17:12:53 GMT

Hi.
On Youtube, when I play a good quality video, I can't resize it. I click on the button "resize" between the quality and fullscreen, but nothing happens.
It works with an another browser like Chromium.
It's not important, but if it can be easily fixed...
Thanks. :)

#4614: frugalwaregetty

José-Luis — Mon, 10 Oct 2011 12:38:31 GMT

I see this line in my /var/log/messages:
   frugalwaregetty[781]: /sbin/frugalwaregetty: line 6: /dev/38400: No such file or directory
Is something wrong with the frugalwaregetty script?

#2858: grubconfig should report errors from grub-install

Krisztian VASAS — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 20:42:51 GMT

If grub-install fails with some reason, the user should be reported that there's a problem with it.
Maybe not related, but grubconfig segfaults if the c/h/s values are different in bios and grub.

#2900: loadsource plugin segfaults when there is no cd-rom drive installed in the machine.

Michał — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 22:29:51 GMT

loadsource plugin segfaults when there is no cd-rom drive installed in the machine.
In this case /proc/sys/cdrom/info file looks like this:
CD-ROM information, Id: cdrom.c 3.20 2003/12/17
drive name:
drive speed:
drive # of slots:
Can close tray:
Can open tray:
Can lock tray:
Can change speed:
Can select disk:
Can read multisession:
Can read MCN:
Reports media changed:
Can play audio:
Can write CD-R:
Can write CD-RW:
Can read DVD:
Can write DVD-R:
Can write DVD-RAM:
Can read MRW:
Can write MRW:
Can write RAM:
Temporary solution is to mount something under /proc/sys/cdrom/ after the installer starts.

#3478: john: 0700 rights on doc directory

Gabor Locsei — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:25:40 GMT

Hello,
 $ more /usr/share/doc/john-1.7.3.1/README
/usr/share/doc/john-1.7.3.1/README: Permission denied
$ ls -l /usr/share/doc/john-1.7.3.1/README
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 10 2008-07-31 16:57 /usr/share/doc/john-1.7.3.1/README -> doc/README
$ ls -ld /usr/share/doc/john-1.7.3.1/doc/
drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2008-07-18 03:55 /usr/share/doc/john-1.7.3.1/doc/
Only root can read the docs, is that intentional or just a bug? ;-)
regards
LGee

#3736: virtualbox, url in get-vbox-additions fails

HÃ©der BalÃ¡zs — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 15:36:46 GMT

Hi,
In get-vbox-additions script the url is bad from which VBoxGuestAdditions_x.x.x.iso should be downloaded.
It must be corrected manually each time when a new Virtualbox release is bumped into Frugalware...wget
This:
http://www.virtualbox.org/download/${version}/VBoxGuestAdditions_${version}.iso && \
        mv VBoxGuestAdditions_${version}.iso VBoxGuestAdditions.iso )
Must be corrected to this:
wget http://dlc.sun.com/virtualbox/${version}/VBoxGuestAdditions_${version}.iso && \
        mv VBoxGuestAdditions_${version}.iso VBoxGuestAdditions.iso )
Additionally the "version=" must be given in the first line of the file.
After doing that the actual VBoxGuestAdditions_x.x.x.iso can be downloaded using get-vbox-additions script.

#3762: virtualbox, guest operating system permissions

HÃ©der BalÃ¡zs — Sun, 03 May 2009 08:38:54 GMT

Hi,
I've noticed a strange bug in Virtualbox of Frugalware Current. I'm running Windows XP as guest operating system and if I create a new file under my Win XP, the root user will be the owner of the new file. Of course I'm running Virtualbox as normal user.
I've tried Virtualbox under Kubuntu as well (with Win XP guest system), and under that system the new files are owned by the normal user, additionally the umask flag in ~/.profile is also considered by the guest system.

#3775: missing wifi firmware rt73

yves — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:54:59 GMT

It seems firmware for wifi cards with ralink chips rt73 is missing. We should have rt73.bin in /lib/firmware folder as rt2x00 modules aren't working alone,
they need ralink's driver. Sources of the original driver could be found there http://www.ralinktech.com/ralink/Home/Support/Linux.html (RT2501USB), compilation is rather straight forward (just follow the readme), but with the original we get cards as ralinkX instead of usual wlanX names. To get a modified driver with usual names, the easiest way is to pick slackware's /lib/firmware/rt73.bin (or most slackware based distro for this matter).

#3808: mysql service restart doesnt start up correctly

Balazs Dianiska — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 07:39:44 GMT

When restarting the mysql service using service mysqld restart it will not start up the daemon correctly, displays skipped. After that issuing service mysqld start starts it just fine.
verse [Desktop]$ service mysqld restart
:: Stopping MySQL Daemon  [   OK   ]
:: Starting MySQL Daemon  [SKIPPING]
verse [Desktop]$ service mysqld start
:: Starting MySQL Daemon  [   OK   ]
verse [Desktop]$

#3850: festival: Initialization file not found

Gabor Locsei — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:43:50 GMT

Hello,
$ echo $(date "+%H hour %M minutes") | festival --tts
Initialization file /var/tmp/fst/src/festival/lib/init.scm not found
It should be /usr/share/festival/init.scm.
The library path is defined in the binary:
$ strings /usr/bin/festival | grep "/var/tmp"
/var/tmp/fst/src/festival/lib
Using 'FESTLIBDIR=/usr/share/festival festival' is a possible workaround until the package is recompiled.
(Hint: For the error 'Linux: can't open /dev/dsp', the solution was to install alsa-oss and load the module snd-pcm-oss.)
regards
LGee
ps. assigned directly to m8r

#3861: remove sysfsutils

András Vöröskői — Mon, 13 Jul 2009 11:06:51 GMT

http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=220347#c15
So we should remove sysfsutils from the repo, but we have to fix it's revdeps first.

#3967: foo2zjs dependency

seginus — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 06:23:31 GMT

Hello,
In stable, there is a facultative dependance (foomatic-filters-ppds) in the foo2zjs package.
It's not possible to install hplip and foo2zjs simultaneously.
foomatic-filters-ppds seem not be necessary to foo2zjs work

#3989: raidconfig: segmentation fault

Gabor Locsei — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 06:57:15 GMT

Hello,
How to reproduce:
- select an array name
- select a RAID level
- on the Add devices screen, leave the field blank and press OK.
best regards
LGee

#4036: hgk fails on strartup (python error)

Ludovic LACOSTE — Sun, 15 Nov 2009 10:41:02 GMT

hgk gives me this error :
----------------------------------
$ hgk
Error in startup script: no such variable
    (read trace on "env(HG)")
    invoked from within
"exec $env(HG) debug-config"
    (procedure "getconfig" line 4)
    invoked from within
"getconfig"
    invoked from within
"array set config [getconfig]"
    (file "/usr/bin/hgk" line 3994)
$
----------------------------------
Thanks

#4055: [REQ] bash: link 'rbash' for restricted shell functions

Gabor Locsei — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:00:06 GMT

Hello,
Depending on the name, the bash binary can behave as a restricted shell. Please provide a symbolic link named 'rbash' pointing to /bin/bash in the package, for example:
# ln -s /bin/bash /bin/rbash
More details here:
http://www.gnu.org/software/bash/manual/bashref.html#The-Restricted-Shell
Thanks
Best regards
LGee

#4187: libpacman follows symbolic links when attempting to determine a file's owner

James Buren — Wed, 14 Apr 2010 20:15:58 GMT

I tried to figure out why pacman-g2 was trying to follow a symbolic link for determining a file's owning package. I thought we would instead want to check what package the symbolic link belongs to versus what package the file the link leads to belongs to. I found the location in libpacman where this occurs but I am not sure what changes this would require to properly implement. If this is the intended behavior then please close this "bug". Otherwise I would like to see it handle symbolic links properly.

#4206: virtualbox tools should be on $PATH

CSÉCSY László — Wed, 05 May 2010 09:45:38 GMT

virtualbox's tools (esp. VBoxManage) should be on $PATH (eg. in /usr/bin) instead of /usr/lib/VirtualBox.

#4327: errors in /etc/rc.d/rc.noip2

Paolo — Sun, 26 Sep 2010 00:23:48 GMT

the file /etc/rc.d/rc.noip2 in package noip2 2.1.9-2 has two errors:
one is the missing of     rc_exec $1     at the end of the file, that prevents the use of  service noip2 start|stop|status
and then the second error is the line    [ -f /usr/bin/$BINARY ] || exit 1
in fact $BINARY is not defined and the script always exits.
Also it would be nice that on the first run (because of the missing of the config file /etc/no-ip2.conf) instead of exiting, the script tells that you have to create the config using the command     noip2 -C -c /etc/no-ip2.conf
Here is the original file:
#!/bin/sh
# (c) 2003-2005 Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
# Modified by P@siC
# rc.noip2 for Frugalware
# distributed under GPL License
# chkconfig: 2345 44 56
# description: Update ip address of the registered no-ip DNS
source /lib/initscripts/functions
TEXTDOMAIN=noip2
actions=(restart start stop status)
pid="pidof noip2 2> /dev/null"
daemon=$"noip2 daemon"
[ -f /usr/bin/$BINARY ] || exit 1
[ -f /etc/no-ip2.conf ] || exit 1
rc_start()
{
        start_msg
        if [ -z "$(eval $pid)" ]; then
                noip2 -c /etc/no-ip2.conf # > /dev/null
                ok $?
        else
                ok 999
        fi
}
rc_stop()
{
        stop_msg
        if [ -n "$(eval $pid)" ]; then
                kill "$(eval $pid)"
                ok $?
        else
                ok 999
        fi
}

#4337: Line curses problem in Tmux

Fabien Bourgeois — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 08:35:01 GMT

I'm running FW64 current and I've encountered some problems after recents updates (two or three days ago) in my tmux sessions. It seems not be reported on the official Tmux support site so it may be Frugal-specific.
Instead of lines in tmux, I've the unknown character : �. I try to recompile from repoman but it doesn't work. Note that outside of tmux, there is no problem.
I use utf-8 in my /etc/sysconfig/language and the problem isn't present in xterm with tmux (but it's in roxterm and lxterminal with tmux). Note also I've always had specific character problems in man pages, with tmux as well as without).
I join two images to illustrate the problem. If you have an idea of what happenned and the solution to fix it, it's welcome :)
Have a nice day.

#4378: Segmentation fault with Fjar

Thomas Legrand — Fri, 26 Nov 2010 21:16:15 GMT

Hello :)
I would to update the Jedit package but, it sends me a segmentation fault when I want to use the Fjar function.
I attached the updates FrugalBuild of Jedit and the log of the build.
Can you take a look, please?
I would like to know if it is a problem on my side, too :)
Thank you :)

#4453: Some locale settings aren't up to date

Tibor Baksa — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 16:01:48 GMT

Under /usr/share/X11/locale/, some XI18N_OBJS files have wrong settings for XIM, because common/xiiimp doesn't exist at all. XIM now uses common/ximcp, so these wrong lines should be fixed.
A script to list the affected files and the wrong lines: http://frugalware.org/paste/11611
The lines
	XIM common/xiiimp _XimpLocalOpenIM # XIM_open
should be modified to
	XIM common/ximcp _XimOpenIM _XimRegisterIMInstantiateCallback _XimUnRegisterIMInstantiateCallback # XIM_open XIM_register XIM_unregister
and
	XIM common/xiiimp _SwitchOpenIM # XIM_open
should be modified to
	XIM common/ximcp _XimOpenIM # XIM_open
These files are owned by the libx11 package.

#4476: Group problem with /dev/hdX

Thomas Legrand — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 18:02:17 GMT

Hello there,
I send you this report because I had a problem with a fresh-installed Frugalware.
I have my CD-ROM/Burner drive using IDE connector. And, under Frugalware, it seems to be under the /dev/hde point.
By default, my groups are :
floppy uucp cdrom scanner audio locate camera video storage netdev users
and the /dev/hde owner group was disk.
I change this group as cdrom.
It is possible to assign the good groups to the user after an installation?
I know this is not a real problem to write a command but, it is the type of problem that we don't see immediatly.
thanks

#4524: mod_security doesn't contain binary

bouleetbil — Tue, 05 Jul 2011 15:23:05 GMT

mod_security is broken, the fpm doesn't contain any modules only configuration files and documentations :
http://frugalware.org/packages/10167/files

#4555: [SEC] kernel

Miklos Vajna — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 23:16:05 GMT

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=338d0f0a6fbc82407864606f5b64b75aeb3c70f2
CVE-2011-2928
http://git.kernel.org/linus/bc0b96b54a21246e377122d54569eef71cec535f
http://git.kernel.org/linus/6e5714eaf77d79ae1c8b47e3e040ff5411b717ec
CVE-2011-3188

#4584: [SEC] squid

Miklos Vajna — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:37:02 GMT

need to update to 3.1.15 in current and stable:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.security.oss.general/5802

#4585: [SEC] evolution

Miklos Vajna — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 15:41:16 GMT

CVE-2011-3201
More info here:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=733504
No solution yet.

#4607: [SEC] firefox

Miklos Vajna — Sun, 02 Oct 2011 10:34:53 GMT

we have 5.0 in stable, need to upgrade to 7.0.1:
- firefox 6: http://secunia.com/advisories/45581/
- firefox 7: http://secunia.com/advisories/46171/

#213: [REQ] Status bar

András Vöröskői — Wed, 23 Nov 2005 23:39:45 GMT

I'd like to see something similar to status bar in setup. It could contain useful tips, and some help to the users: What is that option for, how you can change the options, etc.

#724: [REQ] dictd - dictionary server for local dictionaries

Asif Ali Rizwaan — Sun, 07 May 2006 02:28:08 GMT

Dictionary Server
------------------
dictd is a TCP based server that allows a client to access dictionary definitions from a set of natural language dictionary databases.
Many dictionary databases have been packaged for debian. They are discussed in more detail in the file /usr/share/doc/dictd/README.Debian.gz
Either dict-gcide or dict-wn is essential for a useful English language dictionary server. It is strongly recommended that both be installed. If you are interested in computer terminology, it is recommended that one or more of dict-jargon, dict-foldoc, and dict-vera also be installed.
http://packages.debian.org/unstable/text/dictd
http://linux.maruhn.com/sec/dictd.html
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=605&package_id=59088

#1099: VDR+xine

Miguel — Sun, 03 Sep 2006 11:41:35 GMT

I would like to see VDR
http://www.cadsoft.de/vdr/
with plugin such as xine for vdr
Is a great sotfware specially for dvb-television

#1199: [REQ] Autodetection of X settings, but customization allowed.

Philip — Sat, 23 Sep 2006 06:50:12 GMT

It would be handy to have the setup utility automatically detect X server settings, but allow you to edit them if necissery.
E.g.
It asks for a graphics driver, you have an nVidia card, the nv driver is prehighlighted.

#1598: [REQ] NUFW and other reverse depends

Janos Kovacs — Sun, 07 Jan 2007 22:31:35 GMT

I create packages NUFW and other reverse depends:
mod_auth_nufw-2.2.0.tar.gz
nuapp-0.2.tar.gz
nuapplet-0.6.tar.gz
nuface-1.0.7.tar.bz2
nulog-1.2.2.tar.gz
pyctd-php-0.2.tar.gz
pynetfilter_conntrack-0.3.tar.gz
spamstats-0.6c.tar.gz
squid_nufw_helper-1.0.0-rc2.tar.gz

#1865: [REQ] APD PHP Extension

Isaac Johnston — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 12:44:51 GMT

http://pecl.php.net/package/apd
"APD is a full-featured profiler/debugger that is loaded as a zend_extension. It aims to be an analog of C's gprof or Perl's Devel::DProf."
apd contains two useful php scripts pprofp and pprof2calltree which need to be manually copied to /usr/bin. pprofp contains an incorrect path to the php binary on line 1 which needs to be fixed and also causes a "Invalid configuration directive" warning on line 1 which can be fixed by removing "-dauto" options (this may be a cludge)

#1990: [REQ] parrot virtual machine

Hermier Michel — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 21:39:11 GMT

Hi,
I feel missing the parrot virtual machine.
It's not fully usable for now for perl6, but it can help for other stuff ;)
Stable realse sould be found:
http://backpan.perl.org/authors/id/M/MD/MDIEP/
or
http://search.cpan.org/~mdiep/
Don't know wich one will be more stable.

#2330: Please add vmware support modules

Ron Aaron — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 05:08:55 GMT

I have VMWare Workstation, and it works just fine under Frugal.  But every time there is a kernel patch or upgrade, I have to recompile (reinstall) VMWare, which is a big pain.  Further, sometimes the new kernel makes compiling the VMWare modules not work.
If you can add the modules so that those of us with VMWare WS could "just work", it would be a big benefit.
Thanks!

#2705: [REQ] add new feature to installer for restoring grub

pizux — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 16:38:24 GMT

could be cool if we could restore grub to mbr from the frugalware cd :
mean an automatic script that do :
mount /frugaldisk > chroot frugaldisk > grubconfig
could be cool for lazy users like me if this script keep the grub menu.lst too :)
and if could be localized ( lazy french i know.......)

#3018: [REQ] Dropdown menus: CSS instead of Javascipt

Christian Sturm — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 17:26:03 GMT

Could the dropdown menus on the website be reimplemented in CSS, instead of Javascipt? Nearly all browser support it (I think even more than the Javascript version).
The site would not depend on Javascipt and would also be more friendly to userers with disabilities.

#3586: [REQ] FreeCol

Lenezir — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:11:53 GMT

- Freecol
- FreeCol is a turn-based strategy game based on the old game Colonization.
- http://www.freecol.org/
- http://www.freecol.org/download.html
Thanks. ;)

#3615: [REQ] sysstat - system performance tools

Gabor Locsei — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 10:00:07 GMT

Hi,
I think anyone interested in basic performance metrics will be happy with these utilities. For example, disk I/O can be monitored in real time. These tools are part of most commercial Unix installations as well.
Please create a package.
"The sysstat utilities are a collection of performance monitoring tools for Linux. These include sar, sadf, mpstat, iostat, pidstat and sa tools."
http://pagesperso-orange.fr/sebastien.godard/download.html
Thanks,
LGee

#3819: [Req] XHKeys

Mario — Tue, 16 Jun 2009 23:35:00 GMT

This app is used for function keys on netbook acer one
http://wmalms.tripod.com/#XHKEYS

#3864: [REQ] GNU IceCat

Lenezir — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 08:19:24 GMT

GNU IceCat
GNU IceCat is the GNU version of the Firefox browser.
Main page : http://www.gnu.org/software/gnuzilla/
Download : http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/gnuzilla/
Thanks. ;)

#3978: [REQ] Add an option : nobody

seginus — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 05:29:14 GMT

For example, if we make pacman-g2 - gnome and what of numerous packages are already existing, it is necessary to make of numerous times N, it would be good to be able to "nobody"

#4017: Add new facility for FrugalBuild to merge Fautoreconf+Fbuild

Laszlo Papp — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 08:46:30 GMT

It would be nice to do the FrugalBuild with this facility, in some cases it could cause to skipp the whole build function, like in case
'aclocal && autoconf && automake -a && ./configure && make && make install' procedure.
At this momment I need for 'Fautoreconf' + 'Fbuild' to do it, so I can't avoid the build bash function

#4018: Implement vimscript.sh to source/include/ folder

Laszlo Papp — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 09:07:40 GMT

It would be nice if we could avoid the build function and some other thing with a small script like this for vimscripts. There are a lof ot vimscript that're available recently, with this minimal vimscript.sh the vim could be more supported in this repository it's sure.

#4019: Implement savannah.sh to source/include/ folder

Laszlo Papp — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 15:36:25 GMT

It would be nice if we could avoid the build function and some other thing with a small script like this for savannah provided packages.

#4032: [REQ]hgview

Ludovic LACOSTE — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:37:58 GMT

The hgview software is missing : http://www.logilab.org/project/hgview
Thanks

#4083: pacman fake mode

gigi — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 08:35:52 GMT

today the availability of kde4 was a nice surprise but I suspected what was happening only after many pacman's messages.
what was happening?
a jump in the forums and I realized.
but if i can have a "fake mode" i can see all changes pacman wants do...
we have the -Sw for download only but nothing which enables a simulation without changing the system.
can be useful?

#4214: [REQ] Enable Arduino for Frugalware

Peter Szabo — Mon, 17 May 2010 06:51:50 GMT

Please make possible to use the Arduino IDE under Frugalware. The prerequisites are diverse, so they are attached as a separate request, and only linked to here.
Arduino can be downloaded from here:
http://arduino.cc/en/Main/Software
Linux installation docs are here:
http://www.arduino.cc/playground/Learning/Linux
Info about the build of the AVR tolchain
http://www.nongnu.org/avr-libc/user-manual/install_tools.html

#4484: Systemsettings -> KDM settings -> "access root" option.

ki kadf — Mon, 02 May 2011 16:37:06 GMT

Start systemsettings with user, select the KDM settings window,  where wanted "access root" option.
This option was in sytemsettings a long time ago. Now is missing.
If I want modify, the kdm settings, I have to start the full systemsettings with root mode.

#567: rebuild rule(s) for the rebuild.txt is missing

crazy — Wed, 05 Apr 2006 21:26:38 GMT

<crazy||> vmiklos: could you add some "on a package bump which is on the rebuild.txt _all_ the builds are listed there and known to be broken because the bump need be rel bump as well without any permission from m8r" to the devel docs ?
I think this is needed :)

#4463: special chars into news' title

Paolo — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 20:53:44 GMT

if I use the char 'è' (but I think also other like à ò ì etc) in the title of a news then there'll be a missing space between that and the previous word.
i.e.
"GNOME 3 è disponibile!"
becomes
"GNOME 3è disponibile!"

#23: [REQ] lvm support for installer

Miklos Vajna — Sun, 21 Nov 2004 00:13:45 GMT

we should support using lvm as /usr, /home, etc

#2688: [REQ] maniadrive

pizux — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 18:40:31 GMT

could you please add maniadrive to repo please ?
maniadrive is a gpl car game with a road editor playable on the net
http://maniadrive.raydium.org/

#2873: [REQ] using gettext for news entries and newsletters

Miklos Vajna — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 21:04:47 GMT

i recently noticed that po4a has support for xhtml and xml, we could
give it a try. the result would be that one could translate these
articles from pootle. (currently usually ironiq and hermier does it, and
they have commit access.)

#2920: [REQ] detect different frugalware install images

Miklos Vajna — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:07:57 GMT

this has been came up on -users-hu..
so let's say the user has too many optical drives and he puts dvd1 to sr0 and dvd2 to sr1, then it's possible that the installer will find dvd1 as "the install media" and the installation will fail.
what we want here is to include the serial (#1, #2, etc) in the volume name and use #1 only.

#2921: [REQ] detect interrupted or failed installs

Miklos Vajna — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 19:09:37 GMT

same, from -users-hu..
if you interrupt an install, and you don't format /, the next install will fail due to file conflicts. a simple check could be added:
if var/log/setup.log is there, then came up with a dialog with the following possibilities:
1) format /
2) choose an other /
3) reboot

#3116: [REQ] pptp support in netinstall

Vitaly Dolgov — Wed, 28 May 2008 17:47:29 GMT

It will be great if you create install CD (like Arch Core CD or Debian Netinst without X.org), which allows to run minimal _working_ system. For example, I cannot bring up my internet connection without pptp package, or repair GRUB, resize partition, etc.
I must to download CD1 (it's immoderacy for me), and separately pptp package.

#3536: [REQ] pacman should search for conflicting files in package database

Hermier Michel — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:01:17 GMT

Hi,
While -Qo offer an option to check for who owns a file, it don't check for overwritten file using the -f option.
It is suggested to add a -Qtt (or another option trigger) that test more the database more deeply and find such problems.
Cheers,
Michel

#3537: [REQ] pacman-g2 should provide an option to test the integrity of the installed file

Hermier Michel — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:09:08 GMT

Hi,
Right now there is no option in pacman-g2 to test if the installed packages files are still present and not tempered.
The proposed solution is that we add a new -Q extra option that check the file presence (file permissions ?) when used once, check the integrity of the file when used more than once.
While the second part of the problem is not doable currently, the first part (checking file presence) should be all-ready easily doable.
Cheers,
    Michel

#3781: [REQ] Global download and install statut

Kévin Bellisario — Sat, 16 May 2009 12:17:34 GMT

When you install Frugalaware with the USB Netinstall, Required package are downloded, and for each package, you can see percentage, and ETA. But nothing about the global download. Same things about installation. It would be nice to have an aproximative percentage and ETA.

#3895: [REQ]IRC during netinstall

Thomas Legrand — Thu, 06 Aug 2009 15:39:25 GMT

Hello there,
It is not a real request but, just a suggestion.
During a netinstall, we can have problems so... I had an idea. Whereas we have a tetris-like game in the tty6 (If I remember), why not using another tty to use IRC which auto-connect to the #frugalware channel ? And, in function of the choosen language, the IRC client will connect to the frugalware spoken-language channel ? (For exemple, if I choose French, so, the client will connect to the #frugalware and #frugalware.fr channels)
We could use IRSSI for the IRC client. Good idea or not ?

#4225: syncd should skip building pkgs that have duplicates in the queue

CSÉCSY László — Tue, 25 May 2010 20:42:25 GMT

Let's see an example:
$ ssh genesis syncpkgdctl | grep bash-completion
        14. git://current/bash-completion-1.1-1-x86_64/VOROSKOI Andras <voroskoi@frugalware.org>
        15. git://current/bash-completion-1.1-1-ppc/VOROSKOI Andras <voroskoi@frugalware.org>
        57. git://current/bash-completion-1.1-2-x86_64/Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
        58. git://current/bash-completion-1.1-2-ppc/Miklos Vajna <vmiklos@frugalware.org>
        91. git://current/bash-completion-1.1-3-x86_64/VOROSKOI Andras <voroskoi@frugalware.org>
        92. git://current/bash-completion-1.1-3-ppc/VOROSKOI Andras <voroskoi@frugalware.org>
$
Building 1.1-{1,2} on {x86_64,ppc} is totally useless now. The key that should be unique is ($repo, $pkgname, $arch); later entries should simply overwrite earlier ones (or syncpkgcd should skip building those pkgs that have a non-unique key).

#4250: mongodb package request

nsfx — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 01:18:58 GMT

Popular "nosql" database technology.
http://www.mongodb.org/
http://www.mongodb.org/display/DOCS/Downloads

#4278: fwgrubconfig should generate a "No X"/"Failsafe" entry.

Hermier Michel — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 18:17:40 GMT

Hi,
Most of the time users seems to not know how to start a system when X goes mad.
It could be interesting that libfwconfig create an alternate entry which start the system with init 3 automagically, to not let the users stuck, and complain saying that the system don't start, while it's only a X/desktop manager problem.

#4394: add bepo keyboard language

Daniel — Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:55:57 GMT

Kooda told me that it could be nice to have the bepo available in keyboard languages selection of FW installer.
bepo is dvorak variant:
http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disposition_Dvorak#B.C3.A9po
http://download.tuxfamily.org/dvorak/keymaps/fr-dvorak-bepo-keymaps-1.0rc2.tgz
Thanks

#4575: [req] add some options to grub

bouleetbil — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 12:26:05 GMT

since we use systemd some users ask for start frugalware in rescue mode or without Xorg
That can be well if we add to grubconfig
systemd.unit=multi-user.target "Frugalware without xorg"
systemd.unit=rescue.target "Rescue mode"
More simple for a user to start this mode instead edit menu at boot.
(I've added this options to my grub)

#4602: [req] reverse deps with pacman

Paolo — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:32:50 GMT

would be nice to have an option for pacman to print the reverse deps of a given package,
so when bumping a lib should be easier to guess packages to rebuild.

#4561: pacman transactions have lsof warnings

Rob McCathie — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 01:06:07 GMT

Since installing lsof, whenever I manipulate packages with pacman I get warnings from lsof displayed:
------------------------------
korrode@legion:~$ sudo pacman -S gmrun
:: gmrun-0.9.2-2: local version is up to date. Upgrade anyway? [Y/n] y
resolving dependencies... done.
looking for inter-conflicts (1/1)                 [#######################] 100%
[10:55:32] warning: local copy of 'frugalware' repo is too old
Targets: gmrun-0.9.2-2
Total Package Size:   0.1 MB
Total Uncompressed Package Size:   0.1 MB
Proceed with upgrade? [Y/n] y
checking package integrity... done.
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.sshfs file system /home/korrode/mnt/adversary0%
      Output information may be incomplete.
lsof: WARNING: can't stat() fuse.gvfs-fuse-daemon file system /home/korrode/.gvfs
      Output information may be incomplete.
korrode@legion:~$
------------------------------
It of course can't stat those 2 file systems because one is a special gvfs mount and the other is mounted with sshfs, but why is it trying to?

#4425: debootstrap devices.tar.gz not found

HwiVrs — Sun, 13 Feb 2011 13:34:12 GMT

I tried to install debian with debootstrap, but i get an error as the file "/usr/share/debootstrap/devices.tar.gz" not found!
I got this file from another debian distro, then copied into the directory and finally it worked.

#3227: [REQ] qingy

Richard — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 22:02:11 GMT

Qingy seems to be a agetty replacement.  I read somewhere that it allows for a graphical login while not running the X Server as root.  In other words, increase security.  Its website is http://qingy.sourceforge.net/.

#3506: [REQ]Wippien

Daniel Exner — Mon, 08 Dec 2008 20:59:32 GMT

Wippien is a OpenSource alternative for Hamachi to build small P2P VPNs fast
Source available as daily Snapshot or from SVN
see http://www.wippien.com

#3532: [REQ] Molly-guard

Lenezir — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 19:49:20 GMT

- Molly-guard
- Molly-guard protects machines from accidental shutdowns/reboots.
- http://packages.debian.org/source/sid/molly-guard
- http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/molly-guard/molly-guard_0.4.4.orig.tar.gz
- Patch : http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian/pool/main/m/molly-guard/molly-guard_0.4.4-2.diff.gz
An example of utility software. I want to shutdown my server :
lenezir@myrtana:~$ sudo halt
W: molly-guard: SSH session detected!
Please type in hostname of the machine to halt: trelis
Good thing I asked; I won't halt myrtana ...
W: aborting halt due to 30-query-hostname exiting with code 1.

#3636: [REQ] Connecting via Wi-Fi as an user

dysmann — Wed, 25 Feb 2009 07:16:11 GMT

Hi
I would like to have a tool for connecting via Wi-Fi like Network-Manager or wicd. I know it was requested a lot of time, but actually, in Frugalware, a simple user (not root) cannot connect via Wi-Fi. What's more, these tools are easy to use, with a preference for the last version of Network-Manager. Moreover, these tools can re-connect after connection loss : that's more comfortable.
Why don't you want to implement one of these tools, or both ? gnetconfig needs to be run as root.

#4008: [REQ] kalsamix + autostart manager + kwave

gigi — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 15:03:08 GMT

klasamix is much better than kmix and i don't want all kdemultimedia only for a mixer
autostart manager 0.5 is very handy and compiles well with little modifications to the make file on kde 3.5

#4343: Add an option to reuse Internet parameters during the installation

Olivier DOSSMANN — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 10:17:55 GMT

During the base installation, the FW installer ask to give Internet parameters.
After some minutes (and few packages installation), the FW installer do again the Internet forms to know which parameters use for FW.
It could be better to give a

#4379: ruby-locale - new package request

Feher Attila — Mon, 29 Nov 2010 12:37:03 GMT

*** what is the problem :
irb(main):001:0> require 'gettext'
NameError: uninitialized constant Locale
        from /usr/lib/ruby/1.9.1/gettext.rb:26:in `<top (required)>'
        from (irb):2:in `require'
        from (irb):2
        from /usr/bin/irb:12:in `<main>'
*** what is installed :
master # pacman -Qi ruby | grep Version
Version        : 1.9.1-5
master # pacman -Qi ruby-gettext | grep Version
Version        : 2.1.0-2
*** what is the solution :
gem install locale
Not a serious miss, but would be nice to have ruby-gettext ( http://frugalware.org/packages/38388 ) package's dependencies available as Frugalware packages.
Note that the required Locale module ( http://rubyforge.org/projects/locale/ ) is not the same as IRB::Locale available in the Ruby base install.

#3502: [REQ] An autoremove feature for pacman-g2

Ludovic LACOSTE — Sat, 06 Dec 2008 13:44:12 GMT

Hello,
what about an autoremove feature for pacman-g2 ?
something like "apt-get autoremove" do.
It removes orphans packages.

#4218: change pacman-g2's warning for outdated repo on stable

James Buren — Tue, 18 May 2010 23:09:29 GMT

We should do something about the warning about outdated repos on stable. Because of stable's design nature, it frequently activates. It does not change much during its life span so why not remove the warning for stable or extend the period to a longer period of time? Perhaps we could add some flag so the time period differs depending on whether its compiled for current or stable? Anyway.