Once upon a time Stephan Hermann wrote:
Or you can tell some people what you want to package and they create a debian package for you, including the debian/ dir.
Of course, but I can do that without OBS as well. I thought OBS bridges the gap between deb and rpm distributions a bit by making it easier to build for both types, but I was wrong there at least for the current situation.
Right. OBS can't "cross create" package build descriptions for different distros, even rpm based distros are different.
Ok, thanks for the answers so far. I think I first try to build some simple packages for Ubuntu/Debian for testing purposes and to get a feeling for it and afterwards import that stuff to the OBS.
I could imagine that it is possible to do that. Finding out the similarities for a global xml package build description and handling the differences with different xml namespaces. Creating the different files for different build environments with xslt then is just a matter of time and testing ;) At least that would be a feature what I would like to see in the future
Yes, that idea would be awesome: just entering all needed information into an xml and let the OBS do the rest. Roland -- Never argue with an idiot. They will bring you down to their level and beat you with experience.