On Tue, 08 Sep 2015 15:17:14 +0200, Richard Brown wrote:
On 8 September 2015 at 15:08, Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> wrote:
I was under the impression that I pointed him in the direction of Coolo, DimStar, and Max and the opensuse-factory IRC channel, and as far as I know, he hasn't' taken that suggestion so far
Even if he didn't try it yet: any reason to keep the recipe so secret? That is, if any other people stands up, he/she needs to do this same procedure from the beginning again? If there were *any* documentation, you can just point to it...
Takashi
This is a non-trivial topic - akin to someone asking 'how do I develop my own branch of the linux kernel'
Documentation that I would assume Per would need to be fully comfortable with would include
https://doc.opensuse.org/projects/kiwi/doc/
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Packaging_guidelines https://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Packaging
https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_Tips_and_Tricks https://en.opensuse.org/openSUSE:Build_Service_Tutorial
Thanks. This is already useful information.
But, rather than bombard him with a huge pile of learning that would take him a long time, I do think the quickest way of Per to start is by speaking to the people who currently do it. He's more likely to get help that way rather than general emails in long threads which are more likely to get lost.
I understand it, but the transparency and knowledge sharing are important factors for the whole process, OTOH, too.
Other suggestions would be to do stuff like maintaining a major project in OBS before hand (eg. something of the size of GNOME or KDE) especially one that produces it's own disk images (like GNOME does) - but those are also not quick solutions..
One of my concerns so far is that the lack of documentation in this area. We seem to have lots of KIWI documents and package documents. But do we have any document about managing _product target? In other words, if we consider "move i586 image to Ports" as a viable option, the guidance "how to add an architecture to Ports" would be the exactly required knowledge. thanks, Takashi -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org