Hi All: I don't mean to inject myself into the debate, but I have a question. Although I frequently build stuff for work using my OpenSuse environment, it would be nice to know how to edit and build packages for OpenSuse (say for example I'm considering a bug report but want to try a potential fix/workaround) for private testing. Anders is suggesting an approach, is it documented? If so, could the existing documentation be improved? For kernel building the kernel git documentation at opensuse is a help, but nowhere does it mention what should/shouldn't be installed chroot, etc. Also I'm not clear on how to get the branch names and cloning the configuration settings on the production kernel that I use before tweaking the kernel build options. Would that be sufficient to correctly build, package and install a kernel? There are times when this is useful, e.g. recently I got a laptop and my hardware was sufficiently new that not all drivers were published when I got it. Does anything similar exists for applications (actually anything that runs strictly in user space)? With best regards: Bill ----------------------------------------
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2012 17:21:19 +0200 From: ajh@nitio.de To: opensuse-factory@opensuse.org Subject: Re: [opensuse-factory] Re: openSUSE build & testing procedure (was flanting GPL)
On 07/18/2012 11:23 AM, Linda Walsh wrote:
What you are saying makes exactly no sense on any level I know -- but it is the case.
I meant about having everything installed on a development system. It is totally contrary to the idea of maintaining control over what is happening. Change management, build configuration, these are all fairly well researched and "just throw everything in there and see what happens" is normally not on the table
, but just FYI: samba was installed on my machine when I (successfully) rebuilt it
Anders Make sure you install the "-devel" packages, libldb-devel libtevent-devel libtdb-devel libtalloc-devel libwbclient-devel libsmbsharemodes-devel libnetapi-devel libsmbclient-devel samba-devel
Makes sense to install the devel packages if you are going to compile and devel samba, right? In fact make sure you install all the -devel packages for the packages you install... that way you'll be prepared to compile anything...
No, not really. It is recipe for distaster, on any system
Just installing the user-level packages isn't what someone wanting to build everything would normally do...
Oh, and tell me about the manpages for ldb... how'd those turn out for you?
tdbrestore? talloc? Libraries are there, but did your manpages install?
I didn't have the docbook packages installed when I built so they weren't created.
Anders
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