OBS: Introducting the “refresh_patches” source service

As you know, RPM (and DEB and ...) package building is a repetitive process and you would want to automate it as much as possible. In the context of the Open Build Service(OBS), source services can help you with exactly that. Over the time, the OBS community has implemented a whole range of source services. …

OBS 101: How to treat packages with multiple spec files

If you have an OBS package containing multiple spec files, you may have discovered that OBS only builds the spec file matching the OBS package name. If you want to have the other(s) spec file(s) built, you should use a link, don't use copypac! For example, devel:languages:python / python-nose is a OBS package containing four …

Braindead Python packaging

As you all know, distributing and building packages with the openSUSE Build Service is easy and fun. The only party pooper is that you have to write a spec file to get your RPMs out there. Thanks to darix, we have a decent solution at least for Ruby packages: gem2rpm, a script which auto-generates RPM …