Build Infrastructure/Packagers Developers

Latest revision as of 08:29, 14 September 2011

These pages are in preparation - contributions welcome.

Note: See the OBS wiki page for explanation of the different OBS services MeeGo offers.

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 OBS works at the upstream project's own instance http://build.opensuse.org .

In this track, you'll learn how to use the web interface, 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 (which in turn first requires having a MeeGo account).
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 web interface

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

How to use the commandline client

• Part 1 - initial setup
• Part 2 - checkout and branch
• Part 3 - commit & request
• 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

Troubleshooting

• I'm getting "error: Package already exists: %package debuginfo" — Disable the debuginfo flag for the repo/arch that gives you this problem. You will probably still get a debuginfo package. This appears to happen when OBS creates debuginfo packages by default, and so this flag causes a sort of doubling-up of the debuginfo package.

IRC / mailinglists / contact

If you need help, you can join #meego 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.