I didn't mean that Fedora should use openSUSE's packages. I just meant to simply inform that there is a GPL tool out there (Build Service) that is capable to grab snapshots from a SVN and compile them for various distros, incl. Fedora. Markus Am Sonntag 20 Juni 2010, 01:08:57 schrieb Kevin Kofler: > Markus wrote: > > openSUSE uses Build Service to automatically generate packages from > > KDE-Trunk once per week. > > Those packages are mostly vanilla, missing most of openSUSE's many patches. > We want our packages to have our patches. They're all there for a reason. > It takes work to rebase those patches. > > The packages also don't even come close to conforming to the Fedora > packaging guidelines. > > > Build Service can also generate packages for Fedora. > > A build system is not what we're missing. > > And I strongly recommend against using Fedora-targeted packages out of the > openSUSE Build Service for something as central as KDE, it's bound to cause > many incompatibilities, unless we just use it to build the same kind of > packages we do now, and then the service doesn't help us much, since > building is not where most of the work is in, rebasing stuff and fixing > stuff which doesn't build is. > > Kevin Kofler > > _______________________________________________ > kde mailing list > kde at lists.fedoraproject.org > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/kde > New to KDE4? - get help from http://userbase.kde.org
