mvidner

YaST takes up 258 MiB on disk.

Starting with a 2020-09-01 openSUSE Tumbleweed that already has Cockpit installed,
these are the byte sizes of packages installed by "zypper install yast2"

218922718 glibc-locale
16627072 ruby2.7
9940016 ruby2.7-rubygem-nokogiri
3427518 hwinfo
3413184 libruby2_7-2_7

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installer memory consumption: where to look next

Followup to yast/yast-installation#864 "Collect memory usage data"

Part of https://trello.com/c/2RY7fqpT/1891-8-research-study-and-maybe-reduce-memory-consumption

search strings

ruby memory

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$ ps -f | tee /dev/stderr | ./table_to_csv > ps.csv
UID        PID  PPID  C STIME TTY          TIME CMD
martin   12310  3022  0 09:36 pts/13   00:00:00 /bin/bash
martin   13255 12310  0 10:18 pts/13   00:00:00 ps -f
martin   13256 12310  0 10:18 pts/13   00:00:00 tee /dev/stderr
martin   13257 12310  0 10:18 pts/13   00:00:00 /bin/bash ./table_to_csv

mvidner

Thank you for the report!

1. What steps did you take?
2. What was the expected result?
3. What was the actual result?

mvidner

Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing

Margolis, Jane and Fisher, Allan (2002). Unlocking the Clubhouse: Women in Computing. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/unlocking-clubhouse

This is an expanded table of contents.

Introduction: Women out of the loop

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#!/usr/bin/ruby

# https://bugzilla.suse.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1132650
# https://github.com/yast/yast-packager/pull/434

def file_properties(filename)
  print "."
  File.lstat(filename)
end

mvidner

Emacs has an ususual way of escaping special characters in regular expressions, which I keep forgetting, so here's a summary

Literal	Special	Emacs bare	Emacs escaped
*			\*
	* 0 or more	*
+			\+
	+ 1 or more	+
?			\?

mvidner

Problems with Bidirectional (BiDi) Text

If the whole paragraph contains only right-to-left text, it poses no problem. Problems are much likelier to occur if we mix the text directions.

Here I want to write down my knowledge so that the simple parts are easily accessible to beginners, and terms are defined for reference when sorting and solving bugs

TODO: show example fixes to the problems (and note that they may look wrong,

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My team got a bug report (bsc#1127563) about misplaced brackets in Arabic translation:

Looking at the first problematic line, "Total System Memory", notice that the Arabic translation has both square brackets in the right-hand version. Let's check the corresponding translations file.

At the first sight we see a matching left+right bracket, but that is misleading, since they are not in the correct place. The GitHub rendering of that line is confused by the `m

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diff --git a/src/clients/inst_kickoff.rb b/src/clients/inst_kickoff.rb
index 581f3554..ba4a2ff4 100644
--- a/src/clients/inst_kickoff.rb
+++ b/src/clients/inst_kickoff.rb
@@ -78,11 +78,11 @@ module Yast
         # make some directories
         SCR.Execute(
           path(".target.mkdir"),
-          Ops.add(Installation.destdir, "/etc")
+          Installation.destdir + "/etc"