Am Freitag, 14. Januar 2011 schrieb Wolfgang Rosenauer:
Hi,
is there some kind of statement if source services should or should/must not be used for openSUSE:Factory packages? I cannot remember to have read anything about that before. Or does it matter at all?
The idea behind source services is that you have the server to download the tar from the original upstream, so there is some more confidence that the packager didn't make up the tar ball and inject funny things. The same could of course be implemented differently, but source service are the answer of the build service team (adrian mainly). But using source services is quite fragile - it's implementation in the build service is far from HA, so not using it surely brings advantages if all you want is to build a package. And many tools are not prepared to work with incomplete source checkouts - e.g. quilt setup or rpmbuild won't work on your osc checkout. So no, there is absolutely no requirement to use services for openSUSE:Factory, but you're free to experiment with it and also submit your experiments if you're happy with them and want to maintain them this way. What won't work at the moment are services that generate spec files out of nothing, e.g. the cpanspec service generates the spec file from the cpan tar and many tools (including the build service itself) expect a spec file. Greetings, Stephan -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org