Version 2.1 of the openSUSE build service

[Posted October 19, 2010 by corbet]

The openSUSE build service 2.1 release is out, with a number of new features. "Users of the Build Service may now access a new concept called 'source services'. Source services allow, for example, the automatic checkout of source code for a package from a remote server via Git or Subversion, building a tar ball from these checked out sources, and using them for building a package. It also enables direct download of tar balls from remote sites. This allows packagers to work with external sources without downloading them to their own workstations, and makes it easy to rebuild packages after upstream changes with a single click."

Version 2.1 of the openSUSE build service

Posted Oct 19, 2010 21:06 UTC (Tue) by garloff (subscriber, #319) [Link] (1 responses)

Cool stuff.
I wonder how long it will take before we see a lot of upstream projects use this to provide binary packages for lots of Linux distributions.

Version 2.1 of the openSUSE build service

Posted Oct 20, 2010 11:49 UTC (Wed) by whitemice (guest, #3748) [Link]

You are implying they don't already? Take a look. The repositories are loaded with packages, and have been for quite some time.

Version 2.1 of the openSUSE build service

Posted Oct 20, 2010 4:45 UTC (Wed) by alison (subscriber, #63752) [Link]

Nokia should buy Novell and merge it with its Meego and Qt efforts. The resulting entity would have great tools, deep pockets, instant community credibility and lots of great engineers.