[maemo-developers] openSUSE Online Build System

[From: Karl Eichwalder]

Jeremiah Foster <jeremiah at jeremiahfoster.com> writes:

> On Feb 16, 2009, at 8:52 AM, Quim Gil wrote:

>> Build maemo-apps with openSUSE BuildService ? - It works !
>> http://lizards.opensuse.org/2009/01/27/build-maemo-apps-with-opensuse-buildservice-it-works/
>>
>> http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/

> This is a very cool idea. It doesn't yet support maemo though, perhaps  
> we can have a Summer of Code project with them to fully support maemo  
> package builds. It also does not seem to provide source code when you  
> build a package, not a big deal since presumably you have the source  
> code yourself, but others will not get the source.

Sources are always offered for download packaged as .src.rpm.

> It also has limited architecture support, though it does support
> common architectures.

And cross-platform development is possible.

> It does not support dh-make-perl which is too bad because debian uses  
> a lot of perl tools as essential base packages.

You can add all packages you need for building.

-- 
Karl Eichwalder