Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (322 mails)

[Stephan Kulow <coolo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Community, :)

Perhaps you have noticed or you haven't, but last week Novell  R&D had an 
event called hackweek, where we were free to sidestep our normal jobs and 
work on something we always wanted to try without having an urgent need to
as Novell.

So being experienced with both Debian's and SUSE's build tools, Richard 
Günther and me decided just to try compiling Debian sources using SUSE's 
tools and see what problems we face.

It turned out, most problems we were facing could be easily solved or worked 
around (e.g. debian has a completely different concept of lib64, so we had to 
package debian's amd64 libs under */lib - so it's impossible to have a -32libs 
version of ithem. But that doesn't really matter for the kind of packages 
we're aiming for).

Now the problem is a problem of success: I have not really an idea what to do 
with the huge pool of debian packages (substract those that provide files we 
already have - those are failing and won't be in that pool).

The original idea was to only distribute packages that look worth it, but with 
> 10000 packages, picking those is a job hard enough and we could use help 
with it.

The current list of selected packages is under
http://software.opensuse.org/download/Ports:/DebianBased/ - if someone has an ;
idea how to pick more or how to group them, I'm glad to hear it.

Greetings, Stephan

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