hello, TL;DR: i'd like all obs-service-* tools to have a Makefile, and i'd prefer if we could colocate all of them in a single git repository. i want to package obs-service-* for ArchLinux. most of these tools have no Makefile, and the build/install procedures are spelled out in their specfiles in b.o.o. i set out to move the build scripts into Makefiles since a) i don't fancy reproducing them in the prospective PKGBUILD files and b) it would do zilch for the future Debian packager. the various obs-service-* have quite simple and similar needs. if i went with a simple Makefile per service we'd end up with the common bits interspersed with the tool-specific ones, which i sense as fertile ground for divergence. instead, i went for a common obs-service.mk file which is identical among the different tools, and a GNUmakefile file to provide that with tool-specific bits. this arrangement makes it a bit easier to keep the common bits identical in the various tools, even though it obviously does nothing to remove the duplication itself; i'm not sure what/if i can do with that. simple: https://github.com/roman-neuhauser/obs-service-python_sdist/compare/wip-make... local extras: https://github.com/roman-neuhauser/obs-service-download_files/compare/wip-ma... https://github.com/roman-neuhauser/obs-service-format_spec_file/compare/wip-... https://github.com/roman-neuhauser/obs-service-source_validator/compare/wip-... obs-service-download_files inspired the $(cachedirs)/install-cache code which, on a closer look, should be local to that tool, AFAICT there's no other consumer of that feature. --- while the above solves the issues of packaging the various services for different packaging formats and removes *some* of the pain of keeping the machinery in sync, it does not solve the latter completely. even with the syncing procedure as simple as copying a file around, i fully expect the various copies of obs-service.mk to diverge over time. my suggestion here would be to mvoe all the obs-service-* tools into a single repository to bring the number of obs-service.mk copies down to one. is there another way? -- roman -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+owner@opensuse.org