On Sat, Sep 11, 2010 at 01:20:47PM -0400, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote:
Back aways a kind hearted soul on this list gave me an extensive list of working repositories. Which list included several with a description that included the term "openSUSE BuildService". Which I initially presumed to be a collection of source code repositories. But since I dislike guessing I goggled around and found a wiki. Which seems to indicate that software developers can use openSUSE BuildService as a tool to package/distribute their {GPL only?} software for multiple distributions??
All kind of Open Source Software. Independent of license covering the source code. But also companies are able to use the openSUSE Build Service (OBS) software as even the infrastructure software pieces are available as Open Source Software and therefore allow anyone to install, setup and maintain on own OBS instance. Several companies do this. Where is this documented? It's all top secrect and therefore well hidden in the openSUSE wiki. ;) Open http://en.openSUSE.org/Build_Service As it is this top secret it doesn't even require an account. ;))
It said something about the resulting binary packages being made available to the public. So now I'm thinking maybe the "openSUSE BuildService" repositories like, for example: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/xfce/openSUSE_11.3/ may actually contain the resulting binary packages compiled specifically for openSUSE 11.3???
Yes!!! BTW does anyone know a vim, emacs, Microsoft Word MAcro which automatically uses the same amount of exclamation marks for an answer to a question with multiple question marks? ;) But back to the repository in question. http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/X11:/xfce/openSUSE_11.3/src/ has after build process finished the resulting src rpm. While you're able to directly access the _single_ source files (tar ball, spec, package change log, and depending on the package somethimes more) as soon as you use the OBS user interface. Either on the command line via the "Commandline client for the openSUSE Build Service" aka osc or via the web UI. Even anonyoumous access to these files is possible. None of the last two I had ever to use.
Would somebody kindly let me know if I got any of that right?
Please check the english wiki at http://en.openSUSE.org/ in particular the article quoted above. There's more that enough documentation available to fill the weekend. Lars -- Lars Müller [ˈlaː(r)z ˈmʏlɐ] Samba Team SUSE Linux, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany