Build Service

In browsing the Ubuntu forums I stumbled across this.

Kudos and thanks to RedDwarf who ever you may be
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=709346

Main bits here...

- First
Go to https://build.opensuse.org/ and open a openSUSE Build Service account. Here you can create RPM packages for software not packaged in openSUSE (you can also create packages for other distros).
- Second
Install package "osc"
- Third
Even if you don't know how to create a RPM. Just execute

 osc linkpac "openSUSE:Factory" mkvtoolnix "home:<yourUserName>"

This way you will create a backport from the mkvtoolnix Factory package to openSUSE 10.3 (or previous versions). This package will not be available just to you, anyone that search mkvtoolnix in http://software.opensuse.org/search will find your backport.
If openSUSE Factory updates to mkvtoolnix 2.1.1 your backport will be also updated automatically. And if you add your home repository the updated packages will be installed automatically in the next update with your favorite package manager.

So you can have a backport of any package available in openSUSE Factory.[/b]

More about the build service http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/CLI
http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service_Tutorial

Perhaps making rpms is getting easier

This is great.