cniehaus ([info]cniehaus) wrote,
@ 2007-07-08 12:08:00
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BuildService -- how to use it
On IRC I just learned that many don't know the merits of the BuildService. You will find the most important information on this page: http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service . I maintain OpenBabel in the BuildService, here is what it looks like for me:

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Did you know that the BuildService is _not_ only for Novell-Distributions (like OpenSUSE)? No, it supports many distros, for example, last month, support for Ubuntu:7.04 and Fedora:7 was added.

Here is a list of supported platforms, a click on the button adds it for the current project:

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Here is how the .spec file of OpenBabel 2.1.1 looks like:


Name: openbabel
Version: 2.1.1
Release: 1
License: GPL
BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-build
BuildRequires: libxml2-devel gcc-c++ swig zlib-devel
Group: System/Libraries
Summary: OpenBabel is a tool to convert chemical fileformats
URL: http://openbabel.sourceforge.net
Source:· openbabel-2.1.1.tar.gz
Patch: pedantic.diff


It is pretty easy to maintain a package. The BuildService just got a hardware upgrade so that compiling the RPMs is even pretty fast.

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Very usefull
[info]jlp.myopenid.com
2007-07-08 11:15 am UTC (link)
I've been trying Build Service a couple of months ago for some Thousand parsec packages and it is very nice. Although I've been missing Newer versions of Mandriva there and many distros don't have AMD64 version. But even despite that it is very nice, at least you can build all packages for openSUSE easily. I think that every distribution should have something like this.

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Re: Very usefull
[info]cniehaus
2007-07-08 12:06 pm UTC (link)
> I think that every distribution should have something like this.

I hope not! The point of the BuildService is that it works for _all_ distributions!

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Whoa
(Anonymous)
2007-07-08 02:26 pm UTC (link)
Whoa.. a picture says more then a thousand words. I didn't really get the impression the build service was available for other distributions, until I saw your two screenshots. Perhaps you can - as build service user - suggest the suse team to include these screenshots at their wiki pages?

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Re: Whoa
[info]cniehaus
2007-07-08 02:51 pm UTC (link)
I told them in IRC. Lets see if they are interested in this idea.

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Re: Whoa
(Anonymous)
2007-07-08 02:55 pm UTC (link)
It's a wiki, you can add them yourself :)

-J

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