Hi,
On 3/28/07, Stanislav Brabec
The _link file is created by the "osc linkpac" and is created inside the repository instead of copy of sources. It allows much more than only building source from another spec file. You can define there additional patch, which will be applied to the sources or spec file, which may be interesting, if you want to package more similar versions or packages.
I can understand and appreciate the flexibility of using the _link files, but I don't feel like I'm getting my point across. The simple fact that you have to link package "foo" to "foo-fedora" or something along those lines is a hack. In the same sense that you have one spec file for SUSE and a .dsc file for Ubuntu within the same package, it would make a lot of sense to have one spec file for SUSE and one for Fedora *in the same package*. Or in the case of the GNOME move to /usr, one for pre-10.3 and one for 10.3 and later. I'm not a packaging guru, so I don't really want to spend my time creating a unified spec file. What I would like to do is pull the spec files from openSUSE and Fedora, update the version numbers and a tweak a few files inside it and go. There's no *easy* way to do this today, which I think somewhat limits the cross-platform usefulness of the build service. Thanks, Joe --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org