OpenSuse Build Service Notes

Great tutorial here: http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/Tutorial

Below are just my notes - don't expect success ;-)

Get an  account at https://build.opensuse.org/

A home:username project has already been created -  'Create Subproject' if you want subprojects

Install the osc command line client (available here: http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tools/) For example:

wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/openSUSE:/Tools:/Unstable/Fedora_9/i386/osc-0.112.5681S-1.1.i386.rpm
sudo rpm -ivh osc-0.112.5681S-1.1.i386.rpm

Create a local directory for your project files and 'cd' into it.

mkdir openbuild_projects
cd openbuild_projects

Checkout the project you want

osc co home:todd_zimmerman
cd home:todd_zimmerman


Import in the src rpm as required. Before doing so, if this is a public package, you may want to check if it already exists on the build service (search at http://software.opensuse.org/search)  If it does, you can do an osc aggregatepac to have your project automatically source that build - else there is also the idea of 'linking' although I haven't yet investigated it.

To import src in src.rpm format:


osc importsrcpkg /tmp/ag/myproject.src.rpm
cd myproject
osc addremove
osc ci


Check-In's automatically request builds on the build service.  Else, you can retrigger the build request on either the web interface or via command line (osc rebuildpac <project> <package> [<repo> [<arch>]]

Check the build during or after the build via 'osc bl <platform><architecture>' For example:

osc bl openSUSE_11.0 i586