openSUSE Build Service expands support to Red Hat and CentOS

[Posted January 24, 2008 by cook]

Novell, Inc. has announced an expansion of the openSUSE Build Service. "The openSUSE(R) Build Service, an innovative framework that provides an infrastructure for software developers to easily create and compile packages for multiple Linux* distributions, has extended its support to now build packages for CentOS and Red Hat* Enterprise Linux. The openSUSE Build Service already supports several Linux distributions including openSUSE, Ubuntu, SUSE(R) Linux Enterprise, Debian and others."

openSUSE Build Service expands support to Red Hat and CentOS

Posted Jan 24, 2008 18:11 UTC (Thu) by epa (subscriber, #39769) [Link] (2 responses)

Cool, all we need now is a kind of 'fat RPM' that contains all the necessary stuff for twelve
different Linux distributions, built automatically and with the system detected by rpm at
installation, and people who want to distribute binary packages of software will have an end
to their headaches.  Who cares if the package becomes 1200 megs big, it will probably be
distributed on DVD anyway.

openSUSE Build Service expands support to Red Hat and CentOS

Posted Jan 24, 2008 21:44 UTC (Thu) by kripkenstein (guest, #43281) [Link]

Actually most of the data would be shared between the various distributions, so when
compressed the file might not be that excessively large.

openSUSE Build Service expands support to Red Hat and CentOS

Posted Feb 1, 2008 16:48 UTC (Fri) by mvidner (guest, #40070) [Link]

You may be misunderstanding the part "packages for multiple Linux* distributions". That does
not mean big one-size-fits-all "fat RPMs", but rather multiple RPMs compiled from a single set
of sources, each for a different distro and release. For an example, see here:
http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Application:/Geo/

openSUSE Build Service expands support to Red Hat and CentOS

Posted Jan 24, 2008 23:58 UTC (Thu) by mrdocs (guest, #21409) [Link]

Cool, all we need now is a kind of 'fat RPM' that contains all the necessary stuff for twelve different Linux distributions, built automatically and with the system detected by rpm at installation, and people who want to distribute binary packages of software will have an end to their headaches. Who cares if the package becomes 1200 megs big, it will probably be distributed on DVD anyway.

Actually, OBS is a great tool and each distro builds rpms in its own Xen instance, so its building in its native environment. Moreover, the build server then kicks out the packages to a worldwide mirroring system which has rpm metadata, so native tools like yum, yast and smart can be used.

For developers its a huge asset and the OBS team is very helpful. I blogged about it a while ago: Push Button Packages