Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (181 mails)

[Klaas Freitag <freitag@xxxxxxx>]

On Monday 16 July 2007 14:21, Roland Wolters wrote:
> Hi Peter,
>
> Once upon a time Dr. Peter Poeml wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Thanks for this link, that was what I was looking for. Is there a specifc
> reason why that is not linked from [1]?
This question is almost always correctly answered with the phrase "Because
nobody has done that yet" ;-)

> Anyway, while the mentioned page gives some information I still don't see
> where to start. For example: the Debian packages guidelines at [2] talk
> about the debian tools needed. Especially the program dh_make is important
> since it creates a set of other files.
Same here btw.

> Am I supposed to create them by myself, or can OBS do this for me? If yes,
> how (I use the webclient usually)?
It can not at the moment. But you're asking for an interesting feature
here imo. We could add a function that creates a kind of template with
debian files and also a spec file to give an unexperienced packager like
me a good start.

regards,

Klaas

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                                               Klaas Freitag
                          Novell - SUSE R&D - Internal Tools
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