Hello, a couple of IRC meetings back, we talked about advertising the buildservice as a tool for upstream KDE developers to package their applications. As a part of this, I have packaged a simple KDE app in home:llunak:kde (taskbarswitch) that with the same .spec file builds also for Fedora and Mandriva (where same .spec file means there is no conditional stuff per distribution). So it looks like it shouldn't be that difficult to make it simple for most kde-apps kind of apps, where their developers would just create one .spec and get it built for all RPM distros, instead of adjusting it per-distro (which, of course, would be an option too, but that's more complicated). The trickery can be done in macros and in project config (right now 'osc meta prjconf home:llunak:kde'). Does this make sense, or do you think it would be better to have something that would create the .spec with per-distro code? In order to continue, I'd like to do some changes and I have some questions. - The first question is: What is %kde4_runtime_requires actually good for? I would like to know the exact purpose, since it doesn't quite make sense to me. As far as I understand it, it is a minimal KDE version requirement, but this way it is specified by the repository, instead by the application itself. Which doesn't make sense to me for most apps, if I build an app with 4.2, it should work with 4.3 too. - In order to avoid people copy&pasting the KDE macros all around, I would like to split them out of kde4-filesystem into kde4-macros. Then people wanting to use the unified way could just link this package to their KDE repository. This would provide an easy way to adjust the macros as necessary. I don't see any big problem here, except for the mentioned %kde4_runtime_requires needing the KDE version of the repository. - And then, of course, there is Debian/Kubuntu with a completely different packaging system :(. I'm still investigating, but it looks like packaging something for both rpm and deb is a big mess. Is here somebody who has any experience with packaging debs, preferably in the buildservice? -- Lubos Lunak KDE developer -------------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX, s.r.o. e-mail: l.lunak@suse.cz , l.lunak@kde.org Lihovarska 1060/12 tel: +420 284 084 672 190 00 Prague 9 fax: +420 284 028 951 Czech Republic http://www.suse.cz -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-kde+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-kde+help@opensuse.org