Re: [opensuse-factory] using other projects for build

Hi Peter, For one: this is a question for -buildsrvice, not -factory. On Wed, 2016-07-20 at 08:58 +0200, Peter Czanik wrote:

Hi,

Is there an easy way to use packages from another project to build our  own? I mean, without branching the necessary packages from the other  repository (which works, but takes a lot of time, especially for big  packages, like rust). Reading the documentation I thought, that linking  projects might be used for this:

   <link project="devel:languages:rust"/> But BuildRequires anything from the other project did not work.

project linking sounds indeed right, but this is probably a huge overkill, as it rebuilds everything in this project in your project again (and I mean everything, no control over it) If it's only build dependencies, you cann add devel:languages:rust as an additional statement in your prject meta; there new packages will be picked up from; Side effect: a user adding your repo must also add rust if those are also runtime dependencies. The cleanest solution is, in most cases, still linking the couple packages you need (aggregating is a different method, which copies the binaries from one project to another) Cheers, Dominique