[RFC] A change to the way packages are built

[David Lang]

On Thu, 5 May 2016, Michal Hrusecky wrote:

> David Lang - 18:20  4.05.16 wrote:
>> Debian has ...
>
> Just for the sake of discussion and inspiration, how openSUSE does it's rolling
> release. We have OBS, which is server software, connected to multiple builders.
> It has projects and in those projects packages. Packages can have sources
> somewhere in the git and git hook can trigger rebuild. Builds are done in new
> cleanly installed environment (there is option to have some precached) which is
> afterward thrown away. When package is built, all packages in the project that
> depends on it are rebuild, unless there is no change to the package - it is
> binary same as the last one (somebody fixed coding style?).
>
> When package is send to Tumbleweed (rolling distro) it has to first build in
> the project it is submitted from, then it is put into staging project where it
> is built against clean Tumbleweed and packages depending on it from Tumbleweed
> are rebuild.  Once done, staging project is run through automatic test and if
> it passes, it is merged.
>
> One more side note, OBS is opensource, it can build packages for multiple
> architectures and distributions (openSUSE, SUSE, RHEL, Debian, ...) and they
> accept patches to support more distributions :-)

can it do cross-compiles?

David Lang