Build Infrastructure/Packagers Developers

Revision as of 18:29, 15 April 2011

These pages are in preparation - contributions welcome.

This track will give you a brief introduction to the features and capabilities of the OBS instance hosted at build.meego.com. Note: You need an account to access build.meego.com. If you have no account, you can still learn how the openSUSE Build Service works at the upstream project's own instance http://build.opensuse.org .

In this track, you'll learn how to use the webinterface, the commandline client and create your first package. The packaging guidelines and more advanced topics are also covered.

How to get started

You need an account on build.meego.com. To request an account:

1. Go to MeeGo bugzilla.
2. Click New in the upper navigational bar to begin filing a bug.
3. On the next page, click MeeGo Community Infrastructure.
4. On the following page, click Build Service and file your bug.

How to use the webinterface

A series of pages will make you familiar with webinterface basics. It's divided into several subpages:

• Part 1 - Login and first steps
• Part 2 - Creating a link and adding a repository
• Part 3 - Your first own package

OBS - User Home

• How to use

How to use the commandline client

• Part 1 - initial setup
• Part 2 - checkout of projects, commit
• Part 3 - branch, edit, localbuild, commit, submitreq
• part 4 - more commands: localcheckbuild

MeeGo Packaging guidelines and Howto

• Packaging
• Packaging Guidelines
• Packaging Tutorial

QA Processes around the OBS

See the Quality page.

Verifying Your Package Changes Locally and Online

• Using OBS chroot for development

IRC / mailinglists / contact

If you need help, you can join #meego or #meego-dev on irc.freenode.net . See also this page about all MeeGo IRC channels.

You can join MeeGo-dev and MeeGo-packaging mailing lists over here.