On Sun 18 Sep 2016 05:32:31 PM CDT, Adam Spiers wrote:

I just submitted

https://github.com/keybase/keybase-issues/issues/2569

to try to encourage the keybase folks to work with us to package keybase properly for openSUSE, and while I was at it, I thought it would be worth trying to persuade them to use OBS to package for multiple distributions. This raised the question - which distributions can OBS currently build for?

I was slightly disappointed to find this question unanswered by

http://openbuildservice.org/about/

even though it refers to "21 base distributions on 6 architectures". Some further googling led to:

https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_supported_build_targets

which lists 5 *families* of distributions (or a few more, if you count openSUSE/SLE and Fedora/RHEL/CentOS as different families), spanning 25 different release versions.

It also says:

The OBS api also provides a list of available distributions: https://api.opensuse.org/distributions

but this URL yields a 404, despite it being documented as a valid API call:

https://build.opensuse.org/apidocs/#8

So the inevitable follow-on questions are:

• What is a "base distribution"?

• Which of these two claims about the number of supported distributions is accurate? If neither, then what's the truth?

• Why is this API call returning a 404?

Thanks!

Hi Talk to the api with osc....

osc distributions shows;

http://paste.opensuse.org/73934183

You would need to query with osc repos <project> to see the build arch available.