OBS Mailing List Summary, Week 22

by Nathan Cutler posted on 30th May 2014

Here is a summary of activity on the opensuse-buildservice mailing list during week 22:

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Benedikt is using ownCloud debian packages from OBS, but the Release.key public key file for these is self-signed. Would it be possible to provide verifiable repo keys?

  • In the ensuing discussion, it came to light that the public key of the Open Build Service itself has a signature that expired in 2008. An extended and signed version was uploaded.

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The Sphinx index engine bit Brian when he mistakenly branched a package in the web UI. A new subproject was created under his home project, and now he cannot delete either the package or the subproject.

  • This is a bug in Sphinx, occurring in special situations and not easy to reproduce.

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Willy is having problems getting his built packages to publish. He has five packages building successfully for Debian 7.0, but only two show up on the download page.

  • Adrian noted that depending on the momentary load on the server, it can take quite some time to create a new repo, so there’s no other option except to wait and check periodically the web UI or osc -r -v

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Johannes has built some packages in subprojects and would now like to move them into his “main” project. How to move packages?

  • A lively discussion ensued. There are ways to accomplish what Johannes wants to do, but osc currently lacks a straightforward move command.

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Carsten ran into some errors updating his OBS instance from 2.4.6 to 2.5.3. The errors are “/srv/obs/configuration.xml: No such file or directory” and “rake aborted! Don’t know how to build task ‘ts:index’”

  • Adrian: The first error will fix itself – the file will get written by a delayed job, after Carsten runs the database migration.
  • The second issue was caused by an incomplete zypper up run (obs-api was not updated).

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In this thread started by Eric, the list denizens discussed an OBS bug that caused unresolved errors like “have choice for libxml2.so.2(LIBXML2_2.5.2) needed by ???: libxml2-2-32bit libxml2-2”

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Rens can’t get a kiwi project to build on his private OBS instance – it does build on the public OBS, however.

  • Guillaume noted that Rens was missing ‘openSUSE.org:’ in his source path attributes. This openSUSE.org project provides the link to the public OBS.