On Thu, Jun 09, 2011 at 10:19:42AM -0700, Greg KH wrote:
But I'm getting the build system error "services only work on branches" when trying to link in a package that contains a branch (i.e. the osc package itself into openSUSE:Tumbleweed).
Is this just a side-affect of a package link that I shouldn't do for source packages, or a bug somewhere else?
That's a limitation of the way source services are implemented currently. Source services run on the commited files. Unlike branches with contain the complete filelist, links just contain the _link element and some patches. That's not enough to run a source service, so they are forbidden for links.
This limitation existed since source services were added, it has nothing to do with the recent change.
Cheers, Michael.