Hi there, On Apr 29, 2013, at 6:48 PM, 赵旭 wrote:
Welcome to discuss more details to help me improve my proposal. And I still need a mentor to guide me in this project :)
OK, I am just as a beginner in this mailing list like many other folks but, perhaps I could help, playing as a) tester and b) maybe a quarter of a mentor. a) I have been using OBS for building packages for multiple distros for the following: http://fotis.web.cern.ch/fotis/QTOP/ That is just a simple script for clusters; I can only praise highly the OBS facilities for the packaging capabilities, but I wish it was a bit simpler to get started and perhaps even do it in a way that more is expandable for future targets. I wish I could do more packages; so, .bb approach looks as an attractive way to go. b) During recent FOSDEM in Brussels we had discussions over discussions about possibilities to minimize work across distros for supplying multiple packages; the direction you are walking into, seems a very viable one, it would certainly solve the needs of hundreds of bioinformatics packages and likely not only. What I would perhaps prefer to see is, that you can start from .bb and end up in any kind of OBS supported packaging format or even more exotic things like easyconfig definitions for HPC platforms: http://hpcugent.github.io/easybuild/ The opposite could also be interesting: be able to consume existing definitions of packages from other formats and generalize them for multiple distributions. Sure, it's not an easy feat but some basic things should be doable automatically! As regards the mentor role, I am currently affiliated to Univ. of Luxembourg, if that helps in any way. I can dedicate about an hour per week online for this. cheers, Fotis -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+owner@opensuse.org