Small tools/scripts I use to work with the openSUSE build service (build.opensuse.org)

This script is intended to help with the process of building and testing OBS packages based on a git or mercurial repository. It takes care of creating a tarball from the repository head, updating the tarball in the OBS project checkout and building the package locally.

The script as it is makes a lot of assumptions. I'll try to list as many as I can:

• OBS project checkouts are kept in a directory tree, by default ~/build-service/obs/<repository>/<project>.

• The source code for the projects are kept separately "somewhere else".

For each build target on the OBS, a target needs to be defined in the obs.conf file used by the obs tool.

To build packages for the project crmsh from network:ha-clustering:Factory:

1. Check out crmsh from OBS to ~/build-service/obs/network:ha-clustering:Factory/crmsh:

    cd ~/build-service/obs
    osc co network:ha-clustering:Factory crmsh
   

2. Check out the crmsh source code from mercurial:

    cd ~/src
    hg clone http://hg.savannah.nongnu.org/hgweb/crmsh/
   

3. Add a target definition to obs.conf:

    [crmsh]
    branch=network:ha-clustering:Factory
    repo=openSUSE_Factory
   

4. Run the obs tool from the crmsh source directory:

    cd ~/src/crmsh
    obs run crmsh