Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (181 mails)

["Dr. Peter Poeml" <poeml@xxxxxxx>]

Hi Roland,

thanks for your interest.

On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 03:50:34AM +0200, Roland Wolters wrote:
> Is there a howto available which explains how to easily build xbuntu/Debian 
> packages with the OBS?

http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/Deb_builds may be of interest.

> Most information I found on the internet require you to have a Debian/xbuntu 
> system already running. But since the idea of the OBS for me is to not have 
> all that distributions installed locally I would like to do everything inside 
> of the OBS.

That is exactly one of the purposes of the buildservice -- to build
packages for distributions that you do not have installed locally.

> I also have to admit that I'm used to rpms only - so I do know how to create a 
> spec file, but I'm totally lost with the debian helper apps.
> 
> I would also like to volunteer to put up a wiki page about creating an "xbuntu 
> spec" out of an existing rpm spec once I understood the procedure.

If you could enhance the above URL, that would be great! 

> Btw., if wanted I could also help creating a Fedora dedicated page containing 
> some useful information you might want to know once you intend to build 
> Fedora packages.

There is also http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/Tips_and_Tricks

Peter
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