Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-packaging (284 mails)

[Adrian Schröter <adrian@xxxxxxx>]

Am Montag, 21. Februar 2011, 17:14:46 schrieb Sascha Peilicke:
> On Monday 21 February 2011 16:58:15 Kim Leyendecker wrote:
> > Hello geeckos!
> >
> >   I created a little project because I want to getting around with OBS.
> >   So, I tried to create a standard-Kernel-package of linux 2.6.32.29. I
> >   created the project:
> >
> >
> >       Project home:openLHAG:kernel, Package kernel-default
> >
> >
> >
> >   and then I wanted to load up the source code.... I downloaded the
> >   tar.bz2-file from kernel.org, and tried to upload it to OBS. But the
> >   uploading-screen doesn?t go away. It still stays after a few minutes. Am
> >   I just too impatiant or is this a general issue?
>
> Several issues with that. First of all, the web server behind the webui is 
> not 
> capable of streaming uploads. Therefore, uploading such a big tarball takes 
> time.

The webui function should use the source service. So it should happen quite fast
and the download should happen in the background ...

> As a solution, you should use the command line client (osc) to upload 
> files. But why do you create a new kernel package from scratch? I'd say you 
> could save a lot of work by branching from one of the already existing 
> packages (like for example, in the project Kernel:HEAD). This way, 
> collaboration will be much easier in the long run.

true ...

-- 
Adrian Schroeter
SUSE Linux Products GmbH
email: adrian@xxxxxxx

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