Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-buildservice (124 mails)

[Adrian Schröter <adrian@xxxxxxx>]

On Mittwoch, 20. März 2013, 10:16:02 wrote Gianluca:
> Dear All,
> I'm really confused about the documentation of Links, Aggregates and
> building against more repositories... and I don't know which one fit my
> situation.
>
> I have a project on which I'm building a package named "yarp". This package
> requires the library ACE and this library has been already packaged by the
> devel:libraries:ACE:major project.
> And I want to achieve a self-contained repository for my package yarp in
> order to just tell to the users to add my project repository without also
> the need to add the ACE repository.
> If I specify in my project repositories to use also ACE repository (<path
> project="devel:libraries:ACE:major" repository="openSUSE_12.3"/>) then the
> building of yarp package goes well, but the user has to add both ACE and my
> repository in order to statisfy all requirements and install ACE.
> I cannot find a way that implicity add also the ACE repository for the user,
> or that link in some ways the ACE package without wasting space.
>
> My first option was to use aggregate, but it is really discouraged its use
> because not only waste space but there is also a risk of incompatible
> breakages :-(
> But I'm not want to use link, because it rebuild the package ... and because
> I don't need to change anything to ACE, this option will be not only a waste
> of space but also a waste of building resources
>
> So... are there some other options ??
> I wondering if there is a simple solution like a symbolic link toward the
> ACE package, in order to get all requires resolvable when the user add my
> repository. Is that possible ??

just add the repository which contains the needed package as path in your
project repository configuration?

osc meta prj -e $PROJECT

or "Project Meta" in webui.

-- 
Adrian Schroeter
SUSE Linux Products GmbH
email: adrian@xxxxxxx

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