OpenSuSE Buildsystem

[Mike McGrath]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Andreas Thienemann wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Mike McGrath wrote:
>
> > I've been talking with some of the SuSE guys and we agree there's some
> > overlap or at least coordination between their buildsystem and ours.  The
> > first obvious low hanging fruit is common macros.  For those who wonder
> > "why would we help OpenSuSE?"  the answer is common goals, and better user
> > experiences.
>
> You sure about there being much overlap and thus a certain incentive to
> develop common macros?
>
> The last time I was paid to look at SuSE was around 2003 or so and back
> then there was not much common except the .spec suffix.
> BuildRequires weren't used at all (admittedly, Red Hat was rather frugal
> wrt BRs) and I haven't seen much use of %macros at all.
>
> AFAICS BuildRequirements were implemented by parsing #-commented lines and
> adding the named packages to the dependency list.
>
> Has this behaviour changed?
>

Don't know, we'll need someone committed to look at issues like this.

> On the other hand: Is the buildsystem the right place to work on common
> goals? I'd assume that specifically for macros, rpm.org is a better place.
>

Possibly but we don't have any control over rpm.org, we do, however, have
control over our buildsystems.

	-Mike