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We are looking for packager and tester for openSuse
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stefanogrini wrote:
> We are looking for packager and tester for openSuse
i wonder if a hacker (or three) will inspect the source (for snares
and horses) prior to packing??
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palladium
Just built it locally with the standard configure options.
As it looks like being forked from psi, it made me wonder why there was no GPG-encrytion available.
The preferences were not really ārichā, missed something about how to check if SSL is really used or enable it if not, but maybe I overlooked something as I only had a quick look into documentation to just get all required devel-packages installed.
Without GPG or OTR this is a show stopper for me, but if somebody else would like to package it, it seems to build quite fine against recent Qt 4 (I have qt 4.6.2 installed).
There is A LOT of software which has not been packaged yet. I guess nobody will be interested to package an application which has active developers and who are simply lazy.
I think we should not have this view.
Compared to organizations who create closed source (and mostly Windoze only) packages, these guys seem to be better.
It would be neat to have a regular (maybe quarterly) 2 or 3 hour session on some IRC chat channel where an experienced packager teaches new (new to packaging) users how to package. Presumeably before any such session there would be some pre-requisite material that must be read by the new users.
I know many think that one should only read the documentation and nothing else should be required, but sometimes good documentation reading plus an interactive training session can make a world of difference.
Good idea.
It would be neat to have a regular (maybe quarterly) 2 or 3 hour session on some IRC chat channel where an experienced packager teaches new (new to packaging) users how to package.
Very good idea. The SUSE documentation for packagers is slightly suboptimal.
Well, this reminds me of the old saying: Software documentation is like sex. When itās good, then itās very good and when itās bad, itās better than nothing. lol!
OK guys, when do you start your workshop?
Honestly, packaging is not something you can learn in a 2-3 h session, but getting an OBS account takes a few minutes and this is the real problem.
There is lots of documentation about packaging RPMs (and we ware not talking about OBS at all atm), still, most of the OPs in this forum obviously start packaging in OBS and quite a few seem to have no knowledge about packaging at all.
A very good example is Mr. ācalling out loud and calling other people lazyā Ansus here, if you take a look at āhisā home project
https://build.opensuse.org/project/show?project=home%3AAnsus
it only consist of working packages he linked or copied from other projects while his āownā stuff constantly fails because of absolutely no knowledge (which is not the real problem) combined with no ambition in doing some reading himself (see his threads to get more confirmation on that).
OBS certainly was not meant as a place to throw **** at other people (or even better, throw it at other people and let them fix it for you), but sadly it has become that kind of thing.
Learning how to package openSUSE-RPMs should be started locally, a very good ālearning by doingā way is to get a few src.rpms, unpack them and start reading the spec files combined with a tutorial (there are lots of them, just use $SEARCH_ENGINE and enter āRPM tutorialā or maybe āRPM tutorial $NAME_OF_DISTRIBUTIONā as query string) to read what each option is doing.
Also, even with OBS you can start locally, you just have to use the client āoscā and read a little how it works.
Interestingly, there are lots of threads like āmy build on OBS fails with $messageā but nearly none about some detailed questions about how to operate osc, which indicates either that it is very easy to use (and thereby everybody could build locally before uploading stuff to OBS) or nobody is using it locally to test his builds before uploading (which then arises the question, why most threads are exactly about what should not really happen if you do so, at least not so often).
Just to give you an idea how it should be done.
NEVER upload anything to OBS before your local builds work, if it fails locally, it will NOT start many builds on the OBS server thereby wasting a lot of runtime which could be used for more important tasks, mainly builds for projects with working packages.
ALWAYS start building locally, if your build fails you get the same build log as in OBS, you even donāt have to wait until your build is scheduled because itās on YOUR machine, so itās even more effective at least to get something that might be close to getting uploaded with a good chance of being useful.
P.S.
Jabbin has been packaged in Packman now.