Latest revision as of 15:36, 13 July 2011

How to use the MeeGo / OBS Command Line Tools, Part 2

You've used the set up the 'osc' tool in Part 1 and now it's time to check out your project for local editing and build.

Find the project to checkout

You can list projects you can check out using 'osc ls'. You will see your home project you created in the Web UI listed too:

$ osc ls
Trunk
Trunk:Testing
devel:base
...
home:<login>
...

Change to your OBS area

Create a directory for doing work and change directory into it:

$ mkdir ~/obs
$ cd ~/obs

Check out the desired project

This is a lot like using Subversion or CVS as the model is 'checkout' and 'checkin' (abbreviated 'co' and 'ci', respectively):

$ osc co home:<login>
A home:<login>
A home:<login>:bash
A home:<login>:bash/Makefile
...

You will now find your checked out project ready for modification and rebuild under home:<login>/<packagename>

Branching a package to your home project

If using MeeGo OBS:

$ osc branch Trunk:Testing <packagename>

Tips, use 'bco' subcommand alias will make osc checkout the branched package meanwhile:

$ osc bco Trunk:Testing <packagename>

Summary and next steps

This guide gave an introduction on how to use the osc tool to checkout sources. The next page will cover building your project. Click here to open the 3rd part.