Everything here, except the comments, expresses my opinion unless stated otherwise.
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VLC / openSUSE 10.3 repository
Posted on May 27th, 2010 No commentsopenSUSE 10.3 has been out of support for a while, yet the VideoLAN project continued to offer VLC packages up to the current latest version 1.0.6.
with 1.1.0 ready to hit Release Candidate status, and VLC 1.1 not being compatible with the ‘old’ version of Qt being shipped with openSUSE 10.3, I have decided to disable the repository for openSUSE 10.3.
The VideoLAN project stays commited to the repositories for all openSUSE Versions available, this currently being 11.0 up to 11.2 plus openSUSE Factory (11.3 to be).
Any user having VLC already installed on his 10.3 system will not be affected in any other way than no longer being able to receive updates. VLC n the current version continues to run without issues (but you’re still advised to update to any more recent version of openSUSE, also for security maintenance of your main system).
The repository will stick on the servers until Saturday, May 29 2010. At this point I’ll re-sync my internal tree containing the RC version of 1.1.0 and drop the 10.3 repository in the same go.
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Compiz 0.8.6 for openSUSE 11.0 and 11.1
Posted on May 11th, 2010 6 commentsA fellow openSUSE user (David) kindly asked me if it would be possible to provide newer compiz also for the somewhat ‘older’ openSUSE distributions (he is currently running 11.0 as I understood).
Not knowing what I will run into I took the challenge and tried to fix the build failures of compiz 0.8.6 (I hope this is not to new for you now David! you asked for 0.8.4
) and went ahead. All it needed was one single patch reverting some of the GTK fixes back to the old, deprecated GTK calls and it all seemed to build fine.The updated packages are being built in the openSUSE Build Service Project X11:Compiz (the development project of compiz, same source as is being used in openSUSE Factory).
A warning though: I do not have any openSUSE installation < 11.2 available and could thus not test if the packages do work at all (but considering that they do work on Factory, there are some chances).
A side note though: do not start it by simply invoking compiz –replace if your user does not have a compiz configuration, as compiz on it’s own no longer loads any standard plug-ins (as it did in older releases). This was all outsources to compiz-manager, that takes care of loading a minimal set of plug-ins for you (so invoke compiz-manager –replace).