Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (256 mails)

[Troy Telford <ttelford.groups@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 2011-08-17 08:26:25 +0000, Adrian Schröter said:

> Am Dienstag, 16. August 2011, 14:02:06 schrieb Troy Telford:
> > I've got a number of packages I'm using the source service for.
> >
> > I'm downloading both the tarball and specfile using the source service.
> >
> > There is a problem, however:  I need a few changes to the specfile to
> > be able to actually build in OBS.  (Things like %setup -n %{name} vs
> > %setup -q)
> >
> > Is there currently a way to have OBS apply a patch to a specfile before
> > running the build?
>
> no, there isn't atm.
>
> You may want to write such a service which allows to apply patches :)

I suspected that would be the case, and that is in fact what I did.

> However, in this case I think it is better to modify the upstream spec file
> or to work on a copy.

The problem is we have to support multiple build systems, and it's not 
desirable (at this time) to have every specfile updated to support 
both; instead, the plan is to have a patch necessary for OBS builds, 
and store the specfile alongside the original specfile.

> --
Troy Telford


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