Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (213 mails)

[Luke Imhoff <luke@xxxxxxxx>]

Why does OBS consider an empty linked package an error?  If I can check 
out an empty package to upload source, why I can't I checkout a link to 
that package and expand it to an empty directory?  This comes up for our 
internal use cases where a developer wants to check that a new package 
builds in all the distros that are going to link in the package before 
checking it in.  Right now they have to upload some file to the linked 
to package first so the linking package can be checked out to do an osc 
build locally.  This is more a design philosophy question as I can 
easily change osc to ignore the error (or change the server to not treat 
it as a error).  It just seems that if you think of the link as a 
symlink (with versioning) to a directory then you should be able to 
checkout an empty directory just the same as a directory with contents.  
Am I missing something in the design that makes this analogy not accurate?
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