Re: Building gambas on OBS

[Benoît Minisini <benoit.minisini@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Le 11/11/2024 à 16:22, munix9 a écrit :
> Take a look at the result:
>
> https://build.opensuse.org/project/monitor/home:munix9:gambas
> https://software.opensuse.org//download.html? 
> project=home%3Amunix9%3Agambas&package=gambas3
>
> I don't know right now why Arch isn't showing up in the downloads - 
> maybe a cache thing, so it might take a while.
>
> This was created relatively quickly, so it may still have a few rough 
> edges.
>
> I stole the PKGBUILD for arch from their build-system and adapted it, as 
> well as the Debian/Ubuntu config from their build-system.
>
> And of course it's still not always easy to find the right setup for the 
> different distributions - especially with Debian/Ubuntu, as the format 
> of the build instructions is not as flexible as with rpm (my opinion).
>
> The project configuration also sometimes needs to be adjusted:
> https://build.opensuse.org/projects/home:munix9:gambas/prjconf

Great, thanks!

Now I understand the following:

The "package" in OBS does not mean "one package", but a git repository 
that includes all the files needed to make one or many packages for all 
the distributions you want.

I guess that OBS is clever enough to take the configuration file(s) 
according to the target distribution of the packages being built.

Your 'home:munix9:gambas/gambas3' sub-project actually builds the latest 
stable Gambas.

Do we have to create one sub-project for each version of Gambas?

Do you think that I could put inside the Gambas sources all the 
configuration files needed to make all the packages, for all 
distributions, and that files could be taken automatically from the 
sources for OBS to be able to build the packages?

I really want to centralize these information files and update it 
according to the changes in Gambas components, without having to fix 
configuration files in OBS or anywhere else.

Moreover, it will allow any distribution packager to package Gambas 
easily and correctly: for example, ubuntu was never able to package 
Gambas correctly by following the instructions on the wiki, and the 
official Gambas ubuntu packages do not work correctly. I guess it's the 
same in Debian, I didn't check.

Last question: is it possible to download automatically the Gambas 
source packages from gitlab?

Anyway, thanks again for helping me in some stuff that is not easy for 
me, and very time consuming!

Regards,

--
Benoît Minisini.