Hi all,
Recently I’ve been watching videos from openSUSE conference and learned that if a user wants to see his/her favorite package in the next version of openSUSE then user should ask it from “factory” guys. I did it in the IRC channel of openSUSE factory. Fortunately they told me that the package is already there in factory and if I want to see it in Leap 42.2 (coming release) then I should ask for it there as well. Not a big deal surely, but do openSUSE has any convenient place that users can ask for packages and maybe vote for new packages?
Thanks.
Here maybe? https://features.opensuse.org/
On Mon 27 Jun 2016 11:56:01 AM CDT, aramgrigoryan wrote:
Hi all,
Recently I’ve been watching videos from openSUSE conference and learned
that if a user wants to see his/her favorite package in the next version
of openSUSE then user should ask it from “factory” guys. I did it in the
IRC channel of openSUSE factory. Fortunately they told me that the
package is already there in factory and if I want to see it in Leap 42.2
(coming release) then I should ask for it there as well. Not a big deal
surely, but do openSUSE has any convenient place that users can ask for
packages and maybe vote for new packages?
Thanks.
Hi
Votes don’t really count, it’s not like after so many votes the
maintainer can/will add the package, what is going to happen?
Packaging in openSUSE is a do-ocrity, as in talk to the maintainer, ask
if they can/will maintain for the duration of the release. Or step up
and offer to help maintain?
What is the package your after?
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That’s redshift Redshift
On Mon 27 Jun 2016 02:56:01 PM CDT, aramgrigoryan wrote:
malcolmlewis;2783703 Wrote:
>
> What is the package your after?
>
That’s redshift Redshift
Hi
Send an email to the Maintainers, although you do need to be logged
into OBS to see the email address when you click on the name;
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I have no idea which version of openSUSE you have, but in my 13.1 it is in the OSS repo. Are you sure it is missing in e.g. Leap 42.1?
And it is easy to find through Search
And X11:Utilities looks to me a goof choice amongst the list given there. What is the problem?
Yes, as it is always convenient to have the package in official repos than to look at those many repos and decide with which one you “want” to go, and since Leap is considered to be a “stable” then of course you feel more secure with it haha
“redshift” is in the X:11 repository: <http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/Utilities/>
It needs to be added to the YaST “Software Repositories” by means of “Add URL” – select your openSUSE version from the list available via the URL above and then add THAT URL.
[HR][/HR]Be aware that not all openSUSE and SUSE SLE versions have a functioning “redshift” package: <Welcome - openSUSE Build Service;
[HR][/HR]If you are using Leap 42.1 and KDE Plasma 5 then, there’s a “redshift” Plasmoid available from the KDE:Extras repository:
plasmoid-redshift - Plasma applet to control redshift
This plasmoid provides a configuration interface and a switch to start/stop Redshift daemon.
But, this package requires the “redshift” package available from the “X11:” repository (Please note the ‘:’ in “X11:”).
Thanks, I’ll do.
Dear dcurtisfra,
This is what I’ve done several months ago and that was the problem that brought me here. To understand me correctly please watch this talk by Richard Brown https://youtu.be/lz3whk4E_IA
I was sitting in the audience and was one of the people involved in the face-to-face discussion with Richard after the presentation ended.
- I have played rugby football and actually prefer to watch a rugby game despite also having played “soccer”.
Very nice then!
@aramgrigoryan: Taking the example of “redshift” I’ve installed it on this Leap 42.1 machine and possibly can point out some of the issues with the package “as-it-is”:
- The GUI add-ons are possibly not compatible with current Desktops; in the KDE case, there is no KDE Plasma 5 Plasmoid, only a KDE4 Plasma version – there is some indications that some work has been done on a KDE Plasma 5 Plasmoid but, this doesn’t seem to have been dropped into the openSUSE/SLE repositories – and it isn’t in Packman – and it’s not in the “KDE KF5 Porting Status” list. No idea about GNOME.
- The CLI (base) package has been made “almost invisible” in the “X11: Utilities” repository possibly, because of the issues with the GUI add-ons.
- I’m also not convinced that, simply saying that a search using <https://software.opensuse.org/421/en> (or via a CLI with “zypper search redshift”) reveals “redshift” helps.
The Browser search result only displays one useful answer in the “Show unstable packages” list – along with many private “home:” builds – which is exactly the point Richard made last Saturday – even though he was mainly targeting the “devel:” Development Repositories.
[HR][/HR]I can say that, the CLI base version of “redshift” works “out-of-the-box” here: “redshift -vo” used an “almost correct” Latitude/Longitude" position via “geoclue2” (my DSL Network-Entry location isn’t too far away from where I live) and, repeating with more exact “-l LAT:LON” values didn’t change anything.
[HR][/HR]Looking at the package’s change log indicates that the package was updated to the latest version (1.11) in January this year (2016).
There’s also the issue that, the SLE builds and backports are currently not successful – despite the successful openSUSE builds – also an ARM64K version . . .
[HR][/HR]Is the CLI-only version useful enough for inclusion in the main openSUSE Repository? I would vote with a “Yes” because, when running as a user-daemon “redshift” doesn’t seem to consume any significant resources and, it seems to be stable.
The same can not be said for the GUI add-ons.
pretty nice investigation haha So yes, my hope is to have redshift CLI in the next version of Leap. In its official/stable repos!
thanks