Hi, today I tried accessing the buildservice backend directly with osc. It *should* be possible now, since the requests are mostly (all?) passed through unaltered to the backend. It seemed to work well. This means that, for a local buildservice instance, one could get by without the api/frontend, if the permission and user handling is not needed. Might be handy for a simplified single-user setup. (It won't work for the openSUSE buildservice, because the backend is not publicly exposed.) Peter -- Allen Gewalten zum Trutz sich erhalten. SUSE LINUX Products GmbH Research & Development