Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (181 mails)

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

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 12:15:30PM +0200, Stephan Hermann wrote:
> Right. OBS can't "cross create" package build descriptions for different 
> distros, even rpm based distros are different.
> 
> The funny thing about this is, that one idea was (when I remember correctly my 
> chat with Adrian last year) that there is a plan to create something like 
> this with xml written build description (not the build configurations for 
> different distros on the obs server itself).
> 
> I could imagine that it is possible to do that. Finding out the similarities 
> for a global xml package build description and handling the differences with 
> different xml namespaces. Creating the different files for different build 
> environments with xslt then is just a matter of time and testing ;)
> At least that would be a feature what I would like to see in the future, even 
> thinking about Mark Shuttleworths talk during Akademy 2007 (Listen and Watch 
> it here http://home.kde.org/~akademy07/videos/1-06-Keynote-Shuttleworth.ogg ;
> or to spare bandwidth you can find it as well on my server: 
> http://www.sourcecode.de/public/files/1-06-Keynote-Shuttleworth.ogg)

Is this dead? http://en.opensuse.org/Abstract_Package_Build_Description

Peter
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