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cromo

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From: Czestochowa, Poland

Registered: 2006-09-20

Posts: 87

openSUSE build service available for everyone

Have a look at this: http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service
This seems very interesting and might be helpful for arch devs to bring even more up-to-date packages to the repos! I can imagine that for example OpenOffice could be easly compiled this way and no longer beeing delivered as repackaged but still official i386 binary.
It would be even nicer if it was possible to somehow integrate makepkg with this facility (api is publicly available), so that avarage Joe can easly build his packages this way, speeding up the process a lot. Although I am not sure if the service itself allows such per-user compilations.

Last edited by cromo (2007-01-29 12:45:31)

mucknert

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From: Berlin // Germany

Registered: 2006-06-27

Posts: 510

Re: openSUSE build service available for everyone

That looks like a framework, more like the idea of a Metadistribution and I can not say if this concept can be applied to Arch at all. Any other opinions?

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iphitus

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From: Melbourne, Australia

Registered: 2004-10-09

Posts: 4,927

Re: openSUSE build service available for everyone

provides infrastructure for a development of the future openSUSE based distributions.

and the whole thing is for RPM's.

We already have a build service available to us. The issue with things like openoffice, is not a build service, but developers wanting to maintain it. Nobody wants it because it takes ages to build -- and if it breaks, a long time to fix.

James

cromo

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From: Czestochowa, Poland

Registered: 2006-09-20

Posts: 87

Re: openSUSE build service available for everyone

It also features services that enable compilation and packaging for the other Linux distributions, like Fedora, Debian, Ubuntu, and many more.

- so I don't think it's available explicitly for rpm-based distros. But indeed, after some more reading it seems the project is intended for software devs/packagers rather than distro devs themselves.