On Tue, Apr 30, 2019 at 7:02 AM Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com> wrote:
On Tue, Apr 23, 2019 at 10:46 AM Henne Vogelsang <hvogel@opensuse.org> wrote:
Hey,
On 21.04.19 18:37, Neal Gompa wrote:
I still want to do it, but it's very hard, and it's difficult to get support or assistance from the OBS developers to make this work.
What would you say was difficult about it? What stopped you from doing it?
So there are a few major issues that block me from progressing (even with my slow-and-steady bottom up approach):
* A good chunk of the OBS source services are missing the appropriate licensing data. I've filed issues on all the ones that are "necessary" for the basic OBS functionality to work. This makes it very difficult to ship in Fedora due to being unable to fulfill the compliance requirements.
* OBS sysvinit scripts are not Red Hat/Fedora compatible. Full stop. This means that even though the systemd services don't quite work correctly, they are the only way I can do this. Which is fine, except...
* OBS makefiles, packaging, and ruby code are tricky to fix to avoid requiring installing into /srv. This is not allowed in Fedora. Historically, I've received complete apathy over this issue and this is not easily fixable without support from OBS developers. There's also the small matter of different users for web content, but that's not so bad.
* The OBS packaging is insane. This part I'm slowly working on fixing by completely rewriting the spec. I will probably contribute a variant of this upstream once it is done, because hopefully it'll be cleaner and saner to maintain.
I also forgot to point out an issue that puts a damper on Fedora community usage: the OBS API isn't good enough for me to write a DNF plugin for enabling, disabling, or searching for compatible repositories to use on a build service instance (like the dnf COPR plugin does). I have two issues open for this: * https://github.com/openSUSE/open-build-service/issues/3153 * https://github.com/openSUSE/open-build-service/issues/3154 And for actually building Fedora packages, this is an important issue: https://github.com/openSUSE/open-build-service/issues/1935 -- 真実はいつも一つ！/ Always, there's only one truth! -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-project+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, email: opensuse-project+owner@opensuse.org