On Sunday 15 July 2012 13:14:23 Linda Walsh wrote:
Malcolm wrote:
On Sun, 15 Jul 2012 11:25:08 -0700
Linda Walsh
wrote: Malcolm wrote:
rpmbuild is not supported as far as I know, use osc and OBS.....
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They do not comply with the GPL -- they require accounts and
off-machine "permissions" (i.e. a form of "licensing") to build...and do not support a local build. Besides the fact that they don't easily install and did not install under 11.4 and have not installed under 12.1. Apparently I don't have the correct extra -required- proprietary information needed to build those packages.
That's violates the GPL.
Install a local instance of OBS and build away.....
---- Have tried under 11.4 and 12.1 neither built.
I pursued it under 11.4, but have not under 12.1, as the OBS system is a boondoogle that requires building and installing a separate build root for software that is supposed to be able to be "config'ed" and built anywhere. Suse has broken that system.
This is absolute nonsense. The packages are the same. The reason for the chroot build environment (which by the way was *always* there, it isn't new for the build service) is to guarantee consistency. It is fundamentally impossible to write a spec file that takes into account all variations of software people have installed, so in the chroot there is a clean build environment, which means you know what to expect when writing the spec file. It used to be called build. Now it's obs. The principle is the same. You are of course able to build the package without it, if you know what you're doing. As I said before, I do it all the time. openSUSE is linux. If you understand linux, there is nothing in openSUSE that prevents you from treating it like any other linux system. we just provide tools that make life a little easier. Anders -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org