After running my laptop for some time already on openSUSE Factory, I decided to update my workstation now as well to openSUSE Factory – thus upgrading it to openSUSE 11.2 Milestone 8.
Instead of the “old” but still working way of burning a media, booting from it and upgrading my system, I did the “new” way of openSUSE 11.2: Updating in place with “zypper dup”.
Sunday morning of the openSUSE conference I took part in the Lightning Talks which were short talks on a variety of topics. I’ve took some brief notes of these:
I found so far the following galleries of photos from the openSUSE Conference (osc09):
The flickr photos are also shown on the osc09 twitterwall.
Please tell me about further galleries and I’ll update this blog post.
Update 2009-09-23: Add Coly Li’s photos
Today at the openSUSE Conference I took the notes of the governance session. We will continue the discussion tomorrow but let me just publish the raw notes as I took them at the meeting without much editing.
Notes below:
I stumbled upon a little series of articles at the LinuxFoundation Developer Network explaining the openSUSE Build Service.
The articles are:
Ben Martin gives a short overview of the Build Service and then explains step by step how to build a binary package. If you’re interested in building binary packages, I advise to read his articles.
Magnus started recently a discussion on the openSUSE packaging mailing list (thread start is archived here) where he stated that it takes very long for him to build packages for openSUSE’s Factory distribution since the packages are only build once the complete distribution has been built.
The solution that was proposed – and which should be used in general – is to build against the snapshot repository of openSUSE:Factory. (more…)
I talked yesterday with Coolo about the openSUSE Build Service and mentioned that I have now a lot of branched projects in my home project since I looked at many different packages that have different devel packages. He showed me his script and also gave another hint that I wanted to share (thanks Coolo for sharing this with me!).
With many packages, it’s easy to test that the package itself builds after a major change, e.g. a version update. But once you add the package to your devel project or to factory, you notice that other packages do not build anymore due to your new package.
So, what can you do? You can create your own project in the openSUSE Build Service that contains your package and create links for those packages that need your package during build. That way you can find out which packages fail and fix them – instead of submitting your package to the devel project or factory and get lots of failures.
Do you have other tips about the Build Service? Please post them!
Today the SUSE Appliance program was launched by Novell. The interesting part for openSUSE is the launch of SUSE Studio. SUSE Studio is a web-based tool to build complete software appliances based on SUSE Linux Enterprise and also openSUSE. A software appliance is a ready-to run image that you can copy on your harddisk and start directly – or it comes packaged as a virtual image that you can boot using e.g. Xen. Normally software appliances are custom made for a specific purpose, e.g. a database server.
I just build on top of openSUSE 11.1 a git server appliance. The interface is very intuitive so that most of the time used was waiting for the image to be created – and building the images is extremely fast (the LiveDVD image took 4:21min to build, the hard disk image only 2:35mins)! The SUSE Studio folks have created a great product – congratulations!
I’ve blogged already about the work done by Coolo and Michael on reducing the size of factory updates. Looking into some of the packages that did not get filtered out due to timestamps, I decided to use that as my hackweek project – and learn some more about the openSUSE Build Service.
Coolo told me that I could create a small project in OBS with packages I wanted to look at and with my testing version of build-compare. So, I created a project and set it up to build against openSUSE:Factory and linked some packages from factory into the project.
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