I was interested in knowing how I can become a packager for openSUSE. I’m not planing to maintain hardcore packages, instead some options packages that take some origins in Ubuntu and deliever a nicer experience for GNOME users. Also because I want to use them through SUSE Studio to a personal project.
I feel there is no need to maintain another repository away from the distro itself and maybe I can do it from within the distro.
The packages I’m planing to package (successfully built them already on my machine and got working specs) are:
Notify OSD + leolik patch (allows configuration)
notifyconf - tool to conf notify-osd.
Nautilus Elementary
Upcoming Unity.
Anyone can point me in the right direction and the docs like openSUSE packing rules and stuff ?
Thanks in advance
Keth.
PS: I have some experience packaging for Fedora and Red Hat.
Hi
Use the openSUSE Build Service, you can the push them through to contrib then maybe they will end up in the openSUSE distro All the work can be done in your home repository, which you can also link too in SuSE Studio.
Yes, Fedora 13 is interesting… but for the time being I’m only focused in openSUSE 11.3 to cross this with my merc stuff that will be done using SUSE Studio.
This is quite an interesting combo for launching small stuff… I’ve actually decided to go openSUSE for this because of the nicer dependencies on several packages… The more I look into the lower levels of openSUSE, the more I like what I see
For now my Fedora 13 builds will still be done using mock on my machine and made available on my fedorapeople space.
I’m only building eye candy stuff like Murrine (git) GTK Engine, Notify-OSD, Nautilus Elementary, soon Unity and other things. Not planning to add features, only doing patches for packaging and not planning bringing nothing new, just making some cool stuff available for my 2 elected distributions.
This is actually the first time I’m packaging for distributing to people who might want such packages and I’m learning a lot from it. People on Fedora are awesome and share a lot of knowledge, same on openSUSE. It’s nice when you start up surrounded by so many people that help you on things that otherwise one would take hours searching docs and reading forums.
I have to say, those two platforms (Build and Studio) are quite awesome… I hope they can do great things for openSUSE.
Hi
You might also want to check out the mailing lists and IRC Channels. If
you want to get known I suggest you look at the current standard
packages and if there a fixes or enhancements, branch them, make
changes and offer them back.
All the work can be done in your home repository, which you can also link too in SuSE Studio.