Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (207 mails)

[Adrian Schröter <adrian@xxxxxxx>]

Am Montag, 21. März 2011, 09:19:06 schrieb Sascha Peilicke:
> Hi y'all,
>
> as it occured several times already, there seem to be some misconceptions 
> about source services for the Build Service. Recently, it seemed to became 
> fashionable to replace each and every package tarball with a download service 
> pointing to some URL. As by most commit messages, people seem to be believe 
> that some magic update logic will happen once upstream releases a new 
> tarball. 
> Just to make this clear, this won't happen!
>
> The only thing that changes is that the source tarball is not stored 
> alongside 
> your spec but downloaded on-demand instead (speak, with every rebuild). And 
> it 

with every local rebuild (unless you use --no-service or --noinit switch).
The server side rebuilds don't re-download it.

> is not (yet) cached and you still have to update stuff (by changing that 
> URL). 
> As a packager, you have to download the tarball anyways because you want to 
> look at new documentation files or update your local patches.
>
> However, this may make sense if you use it together with some more source 
> services (like re-packaging or checksum checks), but I consider it unfriendly 
> to change someone else's packages to use source services without asking. 
> Please don't do that.

IMHO we require to build up trust in the used source files we use. Just
started a discussion regarding this on opensuse-factory mailing list.

bye
adrian

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Adrian Schroeter
SUSE Linux Products GmbH
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