Re: [Denemo-devel] Help Needed

[Edgar Aichinger]

Am Dienstag, 10. Dezember 2013, 09:30:23 schrieb Richard Shann:
> On Fri, 2013-12-06 at 17:56 +0100, Andreas Schneider wrote:
> > but on master the Debian package is now built without
> > problems 
> 
> Could someone educate me about what this means? Does this mean that we
> could post up a Debian package which anyone on a compatible distro could
> apt-get install and have a chance of getting something working?
> 
> What is the procedure for generating the Debian package. (And, what
> about the OpenSuse package that has been built, how is that different
> and could we usefully host it?).

openSUSE uses RPM as package format, which is organized a bit differently: 
with rpm itself you collect what's needed - the source tarball, patches, 
possibly icon and .desktop files, and put them to specific places in a 
directory 
SOURCES/ under /usr/src/packages(SUSE) or /usr/src/redhat (Fedora). Then 
you have to write a text file that controls the package build, call it 
<packagename>.spec and put that into SPECS/ in that same tree. 
Running "rpmbuild -ba" on a .spec file will then result in binary/noarch 
and source .rpm files

I'm using the Open Build Service though, because it gives me many advantages.
It builds on the remote build farm, can deliver packages for all supported 
openSUSE 
versions, even for several other distributions, and anyone using my home 
repository
can update using his/her distro package management tools, as soon as the build 
service publishes the binaries.

Edgar

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