[opensuse-buildservice] Link, Aggregate and repositories... which to choose ??
Dear All, I'm really confused about the documentation of Links, Aggregates and building against more repositories... and I don't know which one fit my situation. I have a project on which I'm building a package named "yarp". This package requires the library ACE and this library has been already packaged by the devel:libraries:ACE:major project. And I want to achieve a self-contained repository for my package yarp in order to just tell to the users to add my project repository without also the need to add the ACE repository. If I specify in my project repositories to use also ACE repository (<path project="devel:libraries:ACE:major" repository="openSUSE_12.3"/>) then the building of yarp package goes well, but the user has to add both ACE and my repository in order to statisfy all requirements and install ACE. I cannot find a way that implicity add also the ACE repository for the user, or that link in some ways the ACE package without wasting space. My first option was to use aggregate, but it is really discouraged its use because not only waste space but there is also a risk of incompatible breakages :-( But I'm not want to use link, because it rebuild the package ... and because I don't need to change anything to ACE, this option will be not only a waste of space but also a waste of building resources So... are there some other options ?? I wondering if there is a simple solution like a symbolic link toward the ACE package, in order to get all requires resolvable when the user add my repository. Is that possible ?? Thanks, Gianluca. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+owner@opensuse.org
On Mittwoch, 20. März 2013, 10:16:02 wrote Gianluca:
Dear All, I'm really confused about the documentation of Links, Aggregates and building against more repositories... and I don't know which one fit my situation.
I have a project on which I'm building a package named "yarp". This package requires the library ACE and this library has been already packaged by the devel:libraries:ACE:major project. And I want to achieve a self-contained repository for my package yarp in order to just tell to the users to add my project repository without also the need to add the ACE repository. If I specify in my project repositories to use also ACE repository (<path project="devel:libraries:ACE:major" repository="openSUSE_12.3"/>) then the building of yarp package goes well, but the user has to add both ACE and my repository in order to statisfy all requirements and install ACE. I cannot find a way that implicity add also the ACE repository for the user, or that link in some ways the ACE package without wasting space.
My first option was to use aggregate, but it is really discouraged its use because not only waste space but there is also a risk of incompatible breakages :-( But I'm not want to use link, because it rebuild the package ... and because I don't need to change anything to ACE, this option will be not only a waste of space but also a waste of building resources
So... are there some other options ?? I wondering if there is a simple solution like a symbolic link toward the ACE package, in order to get all requires resolvable when the user add my repository. Is that possible ??
just add the repository which contains the needed package as path in your project repository configuration? osc meta prj -e $PROJECT or "Project Meta" in webui. -- Adrian Schroeter SUSE Linux Products GmbH email: adrian@suse.de -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+owner@opensuse.org
2013/3/20 Adrian Schröter
On Mittwoch, 20. März 2013, 10:16:02 wrote Gianluca:
Dear All, I'm really confused about the documentation of Links, Aggregates and building against more repositories... and I don't know which one fit my situation.
I have a project on which I'm building a package named "yarp". This package requires the library ACE and this library has been already packaged by the devel:libraries:ACE:major project. And I want to achieve a self-contained repository for my package yarp in order to just tell to the users to add my project repository without also the need to add the ACE repository. If I specify in my project repositories to use also ACE repository (<path project="devel:libraries:ACE:major" repository="openSUSE_12.3"/>) then the building of yarp package goes well, but the user has to add both ACE and my repository in order to statisfy all requirements and install ACE. I cannot find a way that implicity add also the ACE repository for the user, or that link in some ways the ACE package without wasting space.
My first option was to use aggregate, but it is really discouraged its use because not only waste space but there is also a risk of incompatible breakages :-( But I'm not want to use link, because it rebuild the package ... and because I don't need to change anything to ACE, this option will be not only a waste of space but also a waste of building resources
So... are there some other options ?? I wondering if there is a simple solution like a symbolic link toward the ACE package, in order to get all requires resolvable when the user add my repository. Is that possible ??
just add the repository which contains the needed package as path in your project repository configuration?
osc meta prj -e $PROJECT
or "Project Meta" in webui.
-- Adrian Schroeter
I already did it. In that way, I can successfully build the package. But then for installing the package I have to add to YAST all repositories path: my repository and the ACE repository. I don't want to force the users of my packages to also add extra repository but only my repository (to keep things simple to install). Thanks, Gianluca. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-buildservice+owner@opensuse.org
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