On Montag 19 Januar 2009 23:25:14 Tomáš Čech wrote:

Hi,

I'm occasionally using OBS and it is great. I have not much time for that so don't blame me if I'm completely wrong. I was thinking about some package template support and library of such templates. With such feature adding packages should be easier and more correct. For example I want to add KDE4 Plasmoid. I would just select appropriate template in library, add sources and easily add missing package specific dependencies. Similar templates can be done for Xwindows application, KDE3, KDE4, GNOME, special plugins etc. If I think it further, that can be done quite easily without major modification to current system. That template can be empty package from a special project which can be copied into user's project. That means few packagers would create and maintain several packages and it would be checked by others. In future it could store only diffs and could be changed massively.

Thanks for reading down here

Yes, there was even attempt to implent this. You can find the source in https://forgesvn1.novell.com/svn/opensuse/trunk/buildservice/src/template- system but it has not been continued since 2007. Michael Marek works on a wizard system and he has considered templates also AFAIK. bye adrian -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, GF: Markus Rex, HRB 16746 (AG Nürnberg) email: adrian@suse.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+help@opensuse.org