[SailfishDevel] OBS questions

[Andrew Branson]

Hi,

On 26/07/17 09:24, rinigus wrote:
 > Hi,
 >
 > I am working on getting ported packages to OBS and facing few problems,
 > as probably most of the beginners do. Maybe someone here can help me out?
 >
 > Problem 1: I have a bunch of packages that have external source and rpm
 > spec written in a small separate project. Let's take rrdtool as an
 > example with my github repo https://github.com/rinigus/pkg-rrdtool . Its
 > spec contains source as a full URL. Now, I would like to download it
 > from that URL by OBS either during building or as a part of its
 > _service. Unfortunately, unlike in several other CI servers, network
 > seems to be disabled. So, the snippet in RPM as
 >
 > %setup -q -n %{name}-%{version}
 > curl -O %{REMSOURCE0}
 > tar zxvf rrdtool-1.5.6.tar.gz --strip-components=1
 >
 > doesn't work (ifconfig returns only loopback device). We also don't have
 > download_files among allowed _service APIs, as returned by osc api
 > /service. Maybe this can be enabled on OBS? As far as I understand, it
 > should download all sources specified in the spec file. Personally, I
 > find it rather disturbing putting .tar.gz into github project and would
 > prefer getting the upstream package from the upstream source.

We reference external sources as git submodules. The 'tar_git' service 
will clone those along with your main repo. Our basic pattern is this 
plus patch files in the rpm folder to apply any specific changes we need.

Here's an example: https://git.merproject.org/mer-core/augeas
And the _service file:
https://build.merproject.org/package/show/mer-core:devel/augeas

 > Problem 2: When creating package from github source (like for proj.4 in
 > my case), I get as a version of packaged RPM the version that I
 > specified together with (what looks like) git's latest commit signature
 > together with the corresponding branch name leading to package names
 > like
 > 
proj-4.9.3+sailfish.20170726042718.6.ge9a0f09-10.20.1.jolla.armv7hl.rpm 
. How can I make it shorter to proj-4.9.3.armv7hl.rpm ?

OBS takes the version string from the latest git tag. Create a tag with 
your desired version string, e.g. '4.9.3'. You can copy this behaviour 
in mb2 with the '-x' switch.

Hope that helps,

Andrew