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osc 0.130

December 6th, 2010 by

Hi,

we just released a new osc version: 0.130.

The main changes/features are:

  • – new “revert” command to restore the original working copy file (without
    downloading it)
  • – rewrote “diff” logic
  • – added new “–http-full-debug” option, “–http-debug” filters the “Authentication” and “Set-Cookie” header
  • – added new “–disabled-cpio-bulk-download” option: disable downloading packages as cpio archive from api
  • – added new “repairwc” command which tries to repair an inconsistent working copy
  • – workaround for broken urllib2 in python 2.6.5: wrong credentials lead to an infinite recursion
  • – support –interactive-review option when running “osc rq list <project>”
  • – improved “osc rq show <id> –interactive-review”
  • – do_config: added new options –stdin, –prompt, –no-echo:
    –stdin: read value from stdin
    –prompt: prompt for a value
    –no-echo: prompt for a value but don’t echo entered characters (for instance to enter a passwd)
  • – added template support for a submitrequest accept/decline message
  • – lots of internal rewrites (new working copy handling etc.)
  • – support added for osc search ‘perl(Foo::Bar)’
  • – New “service” command to run source services locally or trigger a re-run on the server.
  • – setlinkrev is setting now the revision to xsrcmd5 by default to avoid later breakage on indirect links by default.
  • Features which requires OBS 2.1:
    support reliable diff for an accepted request

NOTE:
Due to the rewrite of the working copy handling osc might fail with the following error:
Your working copy ‘.’ is in an inconsistent state.
Please run ‘osc repairwc .’ (Note this might _remove_
files from the .osc/ dir). Please check the state
of the working copy afterwards (via ‘osc status .’)

Simply run “osc repairwc” which might fetch files from the api or delete some files from the storedir (.osc/). It won’t touch locally modified files. For more information see section “WORKING COPY INCONSISTENT” in the README.

The new packages should be available soon in the openSUSE:Tools repo.

Thanks to everyone who contributed to osc!

A new aeon, a new team of ambassadors!

December 6th, 2010 by

For a long time that I actively search the Portuguese Ambassadors… unfortunately I was unable to find them. I’ve learned once with someone which is very dear to me a single line that ended up by translating one great universal truth: “Stopping is dying”.

This afternoon, I’ve traveled northeast to the beautiful city of Oliveira de Azemeis, where I’ve met one of the unknown faces of the Portuguese openSUSE Community, João Matias. We’ve had a small chat about several topics… amongst them:

* OBS – openSUSE Build Service – howto, examples and how useful it can be for students projects!
* University Campus – Event creaton… how openSUSE can represent itself on 3rd parties events inside of the campus;
* Concerns about the growth of the Portuguese Community;
* Ambassadors or Campus Activists?
* The new ‘Portuguese’ Forum at forums.opensuse.org (Special Thanks to Jim Henderson and the Forums Team for their outstanding guidance during the submission process);
* Christmas Dinner @ 11th December and hot-topics.

We look forward to a smiling future full of work and hopefully with a stronger openSUSE presence in the Portuguese University Campus.