On Mon, May 21, 2012 at 12:29 PM, .. ink .. <mhogomchungu@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi everyone, first time here so my advance apologies if i am breaking any rules i am currently not aware of in posting to the list.

I have a project named zuluCrypt at https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home%3Amhogomchungu and i cant seem to get it to build.

The repository i have selected have "excluded" mark to them and its been weeks now i have tried to work past them to no avail.I must be doing something wrong but i cant seem to see what is it.

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Hi, you can't use *.spec to build for a deb OS. without the five essential elements(debian.changelog, debian.control, debian.rules, *.dsc, tar.gz, ), the build process will not even be triggered. that's why it's called "excluded". because *.spec and tar.gz can only build for RPM based OS like openSUSE 12.1 or Fedora... I know less about building deb packages. you may have to take a look at Debian packaging chapters on Debian wiki. or here: http://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_Debian_builds our wiki is not full documented. to me, it's just an OBS deb introduction, if you know nothing about deb packaging before, you'll get nothing from it. you can use openSUSE to package deb locally, then upload them onto OBS. we have fakeroot. dpkg, dpkg-dev, debhelper, devscripts are all in a standalone package name deb.(I branched it and plan to add dh_make and dh_autoreconf to it.) hope it helps. marguerite -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+owner@opensuse.org