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Comment on openSUSE 12.2 with X.org Server 1.12.1 ? by Dominique Leuenberger

Dominique Leuenberger — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 09:32:23 +0000

Actually, zypper really knows this obs:// syntax.
A simple
osc ar obs://X11:XOrg X11-repo
indeed adds the OBS project for your system (It is supposed to get the right version…)

Comment on openSUSE 12.2 with X.org Server 1.12.1 ? by Richard

Richard — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 08:00:11 +0000

Is the obs:// protocol identifier supported by the installer? With installer I mean really the openSUSE installer.

Comment on GObject Introspection based typelib Provides and Requires by Enhanced typelib based dep generation @ Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*)

Enhanced typelib based dep generation @ Dominique a.k.a. DimStar (Dim*) — Wed, 07 Dec 2011 08:48:54 +0000

[...] long time ago I posted about our inclusion of an automatic dependency generator for typelib() style provides and requires. [...]

Comment on Libproxy 0.4.7 released by Mary Jenren

Mary Jenren — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 12:52:34 +0000

Great post with really helpful info.

Comment on how to fix brp and rpmlint warnings – today: I: Statement might be overflowing a buffer in strncat. by Dominique Leuenberger

Dominique Leuenberger — Sat, 28 May 2011 20:28:46 +0000

Cristian, Like always you’re of course right.
Generally I try to make the series to be ‘generic’, which of course lacks special casing but at least should try to make it work in most cases.

Why the original author does create a gtk app without using glib helpers will probably remain a mistery forever too

Comment on how to fix brp and rpmlint warnings – today: I: Statement might be overflowing a buffer in strncat. by crrodriguez

crrodriguez — Sat, 28 May 2011 20:26:12 +0000

I Suggest this issue to be fixed with:

snprintf(params, sizeof(params), “%s%s”, params, gtk_entry_get_text(GTK_ENTRY(entry1))

Or better, in the case of a GTK app use g_strconcat
http://developer.gnome.org/glib/2.29/glib-String-Utility-Functions.html

Keep up, good series =)

Comment on Juniper VPN on openSUSE x86_64 by Happy user

Happy user — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 06:11:35 +0000

It works! Fantastic!

What a huge relief… Thanks a lot!

P. S. OpenSUSE 11.4 x64

Comment on how to fix brp and rpmlint warnings – today: Expression compares a char* pointer with a string literal by Dominique Leuenberger

Dominique Leuenberger — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:58:19 +0000

Sure.. but: do we want to have our packager army introduce the most sophisticated and complex code into any upstream project?
The target audience for his series is mostly packagers. Some of them are coders, many are not, some would like to learn, some don’t care and give up.

It’s nice to point out nice nifty tricks. But honestly, I doubt we would achieve a lot of packagers taking care of the errors, if it goes too far.

Comment on how to fix brp and rpmlint warnings – today: Expression compares a char* pointer with a string literal by crrodriguez

crrodriguez — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 12:42:29 +0000

Note that strcmp is easily misused and will certainly lead to bugs . I suggest you define a macro like

#define streq(a,b) (strcmp((a),(b)) == 0)

..or an inline function,as macros are pretty evil

Keep going!

Comment on how to fix brp and rpmlint warnings – today: Expression compares a char* pointer with a string literal by RedDwarf

RedDwarf — Fri, 25 Mar 2011 22:04:29 +0000

The wrong example could be

#include

int main() {
const char mytext[] = “Help”;
if (mytext == “Help”) {
printf(“This should raise a warning”);
}
return 0;
}

To avoid making Ulrich Drepper cry
http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/dsohowto.pdf section 2.4.1

But sure, the series is good to have. And is badly needed for some esoteric topics as strict aliasing.