OBS Mailing List Summary, Week 20

Here is a summary of activity on the opensuse-buildservice mailing list during week 20:

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Damian had a problem with the tar_scm service checking out bazaar repos from launchpad, but he solved it himself after finding an example on OBS using bzr tar_scrm service. See the thread for details.

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Liquider has a subproject where he is building binaries, but he wants to have these binaries published elsewhere (in the main project, in this case).

• Roman suggested that he look at osc aggregatepac

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Rick noticed that allow_anonymous and new_user_registration were moved into /configuration API as anonymous and registration. But he cannot seem to configure these settings via the API.

• Stefan pointed him to the correct osc api incantations.

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Ruediger wants to know if it is possible to run a command from the %build section as root.

• A very lively discussion ensued – see the full thread for details. In short, it is possible via a special setting, but probably not advisable.

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Ruediger also wants to know if it’s possible to BuildRequire a package without installing all its dependencies? He just needs some headers.

• Jan and Andreas both answered that this indicates a need to split the package into subpackages. If there is a subpackage containing just the headers, this could be BuildRequired.

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Michael announced that new build repository handling has been enabled for home projects. OBS maintains an internal repo used for building (the “:full tree”). The useforbuild flag can be used to configure if built packages are copied into the tree or not.

• see the announcement for details.

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Andreas thinks something is wrong with the i586 Arch_Extra image – it is continually in “unresolvable” state with “nothing provides gcc-libs = 4.9.0-2 needed by gcc”. The 64-bit version looks fine.

• Michael found the issue and triggered a re-sync.