Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (60 mails)

[Ludwig Nussel <ludwig.nussel@xxxxxxx>]

Guillermo Ballester Valor wrote:
> 1) I assume that in a SuSE 10.0 we can build environments for 10.0 and 9.x 
> distros. Could we build future distros, i.e. 10.1?. Can I build 10.0 rpms in 
> a 9.3 base system?

Likely. You need to either use a newer y2pmsh or create the config
files for the new distro manually.

> 2) We can point every dist to their net instalation sources. So y2pmbuild  can 

I'd use local repositories.

> build the proper environment. But, how can we apply the updates and patches 
> of that base packages?. Should we build in a non-patched-since-release 
> environment?

Mirror the update tree locally and run createrepo on it.

cu
Ludwig

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