2013-04-30T04:31:53-07:00 OBS Team Copyright (c) 2012 OBS Team 2013-04-30T00:00:00-07:00 /2013/04/30/version-2.4//

After one whole year of hard work, toil, tears and sweat from all our awesome contributors the latest release of the Open Build Service(OBS) is ready for you. Version 2.4 adds support for yet another package format, secure boot signing and appstream app stores. It also brings a constraint system to better match build hardware to build jobs and includes a lot of speed improvements. OBS 2.4 is the latest, greatest and rock solid release...

2013-04-05T00:00:00-07:00 /2013/04/05/Hackweek_9_OBS_projects//

Next week is Hackweek! At least twice a year all SUSE engineers are free to work for one week on projects of their passion. They can choose to contribute to an existing open source project or try something new, nobody has tried before. One whole week of innovation, collaboration, and learning. If you want to know more check the great hackweek.suse.com. As very integral building block of the openSUSE/SUSE universum the Open Build Service will...

2013-01-09T00:00:00-08:00 /2013/01/09/in_case_of_emergency//

Let's be honest, you might think differently but you and us are not perfect yet. From time to time we make mistakes that end up as bugs in the Open Build Service (OBS) and it's also not unheard of that you need help to wrap your head around something. But don't despair, as Free Software project we're commited to work together and collaborate. Here is how we do that. We help each other out There...

2012-10-24T00:00:00-07:00 /2012/10/24/oSC12-trip-report//

In October we went to the openSUSE conference/Linuxdays at Prague in the Czech republic, here is the trip-report for the OBS community. The program of the first two days was more focused on things that are only loosely connected to OBS like FOSS/commons/freedom in general, user workshops and applications. Monday and Tuesday on the other hand where focused solely on openSUSE and here the OBS, naturally, played a bigger role. All in all it was...

2012-10-17T00:00:00-07:00 /2012/10/17/obs-%40-osc//

Next weekend the 4th openSUSE Conference is going to kick-off in the beautiful city of Prague, Czech Republic. Around 600 Free and Open Source Software enthusiasts come together for four days to learn, hack and to have a lot of fun together. As the Open Build Service (OBS) is developed under the hood of the openSUSE project our team will also represent. Coolo and Henne will join the track east to help run the event...

2012-10-13T00:00:00-07:00 /2012/10/13/version-2.3.6//

This release brings some bug fixes which could be considered privacy fixes depending on your setup and expectations. Please find details below. OBS 2.3.6 is published in the openSUSE:Tools project and appliances can be used as usual. Feature backports: none Changes: api: run the rescale of build monitor statistics hourly api: a package created by submit request took over group roles. Does not happen anymore. Bugfixes: webui: fixed default config for api port (https now)...

2012-09-27T00:00:00-07:00 /2012/09/27/osc-0.136.0-release//

osc 0.136.0 release We are happy to announce the osc 0.136.0 release. This release is mostly a bugfix release and contains the following changes: prefer TLS v1.1 or v1.2 if available declined is considered to be an open state (that is “osc rq list” also shows declined requests) added support to move files across packages via “osc mv” (fixes issue #10) show source package name when running “osc se –binary …” fixed encoding detection fixed...

2012-09-10T00:00:00-07:00 /2012/09/10/arch-linux-support//

We are happy to announce that the Open Build Service (OBS) is now able to build the package format used by Arch Linux! With this new format you can deliver automatic, consistent and reproducible builds of your software to your users and customers for yet another Free and Open Source Software distribution. In total the OBS now supports 10 base distributions in more than 20 flavors and versions. Last years Google Summer of Code marked...

2012-05-25T00:00:00-07:00 /2012/05/25/the-open-build-service-team-at-suse-looks-for-a-new-member//

You always wanted to join the Open Build Service Team at SUSE? In case you like OBS and think you could help to improve it, please send us your CV. Extra bonus points are made by any experience with web stacks, ideally with Ruby On Rails. Also any involvement with open source communities would help. We would also be highly interested if you could implement something, for example from the Junior Jobs. You can find...

2012-05-03T00:00:00-07:00 /2012/05/03/version-2.3//

The Open Build Service(OBS) version 2.3.0 brings new features especially in the Maintenance and Release Management area and is the latest stable maintained version. It is recommended to update to this version to get improved security protections. It is also the first version which comes with official support offerings from B1-Systems backed by SUSE. Major Features OBS 2.3 brings the functionality to maintain a released software product in an efficient and transparent way. This includes...

2012-04-14T00:00:00-07:00 /2012/04/14/obs-developers-visit-tizen-developer-conference//

Just a quick note. You can meet OBS developers Michael Schröder and Adrian Schröter at the Tizen developer conference. There will be a talk on Thursday about the state and future of OBS development.

2012-04-12T00:00:00-07:00 /2012/04/12/version-2.1.17//

Yet another OBS 2.1 release is out there. 2.1.17 brings compatibility with OBS 2.3 instances and has an extra protection layer against programming errors on the rails level. Changes enforce rubygems < 1.6.0 to avoid runtime errors update to version 2.1.17 Support linking to remote OBS 2.3 package which contains links with vrev attribute Added new default targets for SUSE Linux Enterprise SP1 and SP2 builds Removed RHEL-4 default target (EOL) Additional protection layer against...

2011-05-26T00:00:00-07:00 /2011/05/26/opensuse-renames-obs//

The Build Service Team at openSUSE has decided to rename its cutting-edge packaging- and distribution build technology to Open Build Service. The new name, while maintaining the well-known OBS acronym, signals its open and cross-distribution nature. The history The Open Build Service started out as an internal SUSE technology. In 2006 it was decided to open its source code and development process. From that point on, the scope of the Open Build Service started to...

2011-03-02T00:00:00-08:00 /2011/03/02/version-2.0.8-and-2.1.6//

The Open Build Service team has released verison 2.0.8 and 2.1.6. of OBS. Both versions are fixing a critical security leak which can be used to modify projects or packages without having write permission to them. We highly recommend to update your instance of OBS as soon as possible to these new versions. Version 1.7 is not affected by this issue. Thanks to Marcus Hüwe for reporting this issue. Other Fixes in OBS 2.1.6 Additionally...

2011-01-18T00:00:00-08:00 /2011/01/18/open-build-service-books-project//

The Open Build Service (OBS) has a problem. It is horrible powerful, but no one knows. Or if they know that it is, they don't know how to make use of it. Our documentation exists only in the wiki so far. While the wiki will remain a documentation resource, several of us OBS users and developers think we need something more structured and edited. A real book in short, which you can read to get...

2010-10-19T00:00:00-07:00 /2010/10/19/version-2.1//

The Open Build Service (OBS) - is  now officially at release 2.1. We're delighted with the improvements in this release, including an enhanced web interface, integration with online code management systems and better access controls. Key Features Enhanced web user interface This iteration has enhanced the web user interface of Open Build Service  with features that were previously only in the osc command line client. It now allows submitting of packages to other projects, showing...

2010-09-20T00:00:00-07:00 /2010/09/20/easily-building-software-for-multipe-distributions-and-platforms//

In a little over a month, the openSUSE conference 2010 will start with the title "collaboration accross borders". This article highlights one of the main topics at this conference — a truly border-crossing technology called the Open Build Service. This technology helps developers target many different linux distributions with their software quickly and easily, and the openSUSE conference offers the perfect opportunity to get some "inside information" and share ideas towards fast-tracking the software packaging...

2010-06-09T00:00:00-07:00 /2010/06/09/version-1.8-and-2.0//

The openSUSE Project is proud to announce the 1.8 and 2.0 releases of the Open Build Service (OBS). The Open Build Service (OBS) is a generic system to build and distribute binary packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way. You can release packages as well as updates, add-ons, appliances and entire distributions for a wide range of operating systems and hardware architectures. It is developed by a talented team of developers as...

2010-05-25T00:00:00-07:00 /2010/05/25/version-2.0-beta-1//

The Open Build Service (OBS) is a generic system to build and distribute binary packages from sources in an automatic, consistent and reproducible way. You can release packages as well as updates, add-ons, appliances and entire distributions for a wide range of operating systems and hardware architectures. It is developed by a talented team of developers as Free Software and is used by many Free and Open Source software projects, companies and researchers. Including but...

2010-04-19T00:00:00-07:00 /2010/04/19/open-build-service-meego-developer-meeting//

OBS Developers from MeeGo project visited the OBS Team in Nürnberg on friday and saturday. Not everybody managed to come due to the ash over europe, but at least Anas Nashif from Intel Alexander(Sasha) Kanevskiy from Nokia Martin Mohring from Linux Foundation Jan-Simon Möller from Linux Foundation Andreas Jaeger from Novell/SUSE Michael Schröder from Novell/SUSE Adrian Schröter from Novell/SUSE spoke about a lot of features and wanted design changes in OBS. The MeeGo project uses...