[Novalug] Idea for Meeting Topic - Novell OpenSuse Build Service
James Ewing Cottrell 3rd
JECottrell3@Comcast.NET
Tue Feb 17 13:18:48 EST 2009
How about they fix their own install problems first?
The Software Management past of YAST, the component that selects which
packages to install (Add/Remove Programs in RedHat, synaptic in Debian)
is TOTALLY UNUSABLE!
Yeah, it's Prettier, but Critical Functionality is Missing ad it's SLOW.
I used to zip around the versions from SuSE 6 up to 10, but 11 is Terrib;e.
If it's not Fun To Install and Maintain...
It won't be Fun To Use.
I'm spending my efforts elsewhere.
JIM
Bud Roth wrote:
> Very interesting concept. On the plus side, if I understand correctly,
> it would allow you to pull in the newest version of cutting edge
> programs and build a binary for your architecture for your distro.
>
> I guess the risk is that you'll be more likely to get hit by errors than
> you would using the package that was developed and tested for your
> distro.
>
> It'd be interesting to find out more.
>
> Bud
>
>
> On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 09:15 -0500, John B. Holmblad wrote:
>> All,
>>
>> I just learned about a www service that has been introduced as a part
>> of the Opensuse project, which provides the capability for the user of
>> the www service to build/package applications for any of a wide
>> variety of Linux distributions and do so for a number of different
>> processor architectures. Here for those interested is the url to the
>> www page that introduces this service:
>>
>> http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/
>>
>> In addition to working with Opensuse, it is designed to work with,
>> Novell Suse, Fedora, Redhat, Centos, Debian, Ubuntu, and several other
>> distributions.
>>
>> I became aware of this service due to a posting on the maemo
>> developers email group. Here is the url to a www page that describes
>> the use of this service to build an existing app (csync) to run on
>> Maemo:
>>
>>
>> http://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/01/27/build-maemo-apps-with-opensuse-buildservice-it-works/
>>
>> From what I can tell it is possible to localize the Opensuse Build
>> Service by downloading the "toolkit" onto a server that is under the
>> control of the user. In other words the user has the option to either
>> a) use the www service to perform the build process, or b) create
>> his/her own private instance of th service.
>>
>> Perhaps one of our members with contacts at Novell could get someone
>> associated with Suse Linux to give a Novalug presentation on this
>> service and, specifically, a tutorial on how to use it..
>>
>> --
>> Best Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> John Holmblad
>>
>>
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