Workflow and Usage
One can either run the Open Build Service as a private installation, or utilize public instances such as the openSUSE Build Service located at build.opensuse.org, hosted by Novell. The latter offers up to 400 build slots, but naturally, external services may impose limitations as to what packages are allowed to be hosted, so private installations are usually chosen when proprietary or legally problematic software is to be hosted.
Each packager has a "home" project by default where they can upload sources and definitions on how to build RPM or Debian packages. Commits outside the home space is possible given permissions have been granted to a developer. After each upload, the Build Service schedules the changed packages to be rebuilt. On completion, the resulting binary packages are published instantaneously to the download server, which makes them available to the public.
The Build Service provides a public API which is implemented in several user interfaces:
- a web interface at build.opensuse.org
- a command line interface called osc
Furthermore, a plug-in for integrating the Build Service into Eclipse is developed as a Google Summer of Code project. As well as a plugin for Qt Creator.
Instances can be linked, such that sources and packages from a remote host can be reused, thereby eliminating the need to bootstrap/import dependencies manually for preexisting projects.
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