Archive for the ‘openSUSE’ Category

openSUSE build service automation

Sunday, April 18th, 2010

A few weeks ago I've hacked together some scripts to use the openSUSE build service as platform for nightly builds. The build is kicked off every hour when something new can be build. Additionally I've created a small PHP client which queries the openSUSE RESTful API and shows packages, binaries, the ...

openSUSE madness

Monday, March 1st, 2010

Just in case you wonder why a simple sudo zypper install sometimes loads dozens or more unneeded, but possibly related packages, its not a bug, its a feature! While Debian by default only hints you to these additional packages during the install phase, openSUSE installs them all by default. Try it ...

openSUSE build service client ported

Saturday, December 12th, 2009

I used to create packages for a couple of open source projects for the openSUSE Linux distribution. They have this really nice build service running on build.opensuse.org, on which you can - despite of its name - also build packages for other Linux distributions like Fedora, Gentoo or Debian. While the ...