The openSUSE 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 miss-used to modify projects or packages without having write permission there. 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.
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Archive for the ‘Build Service’ Category
Build Service team releases new versions fixing security problems
March 2nd, 2011 by News Team30 min downtime for build.opensuse.org and software
February 24th, 2011 by News TeamWe need a short service outage to move one of the big storages behind the openSUSE Buildservice to a new location. As result, build.opensuse.org and software.opensuse.org/search would not be available for ca. 30min.
Small server maintenance Thursday, 2011-01-20
January 19th, 2011 by News TeamWe will have a service outage (expected are 30 minutes) this Thursday morning between 09:00 and 10:00 CET.
This means the following services will not be reachable during that time:
* software.opensuse.org
* build.opensuse.org
* api.opensuse.org
OBS Books Project
January 18th, 2011 by News TeamopenSUSE Build Service (OBS) has a problem. It is horrible powerful, but no one knows. Or no one knows how to make use of it in short.
Our documentation exists only in the wiki so far. While the wiki is still and will remain as 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 an entire overview.
Therefore we started to create the infrastructure to write such books, it is part of the openSUSE documentation project. This means the documentation is written in docbook and hosted in svn.
Small server maintenance Thursday, 2011-01-13
January 12th, 2011 by News TeamWe will have a service outage (expected are 30 minutes) this Thursday morning between 09:00 and 10:00 CET.
This means the following services will not be reachable during that time:
* build.opensuse.org
* features.opensuse.org
* api.opensuse.org
The software search on software.opensuse.org might also be affected during that time.
openSUSE finished 2010 big
January 3rd, 2011 by Izabel Valverde
By somenametoforget at Flickr
Since the openSUSE Conference in Nuremberg in October, the openSUSE community has been extremely active. New projects announced there have had progress, others have emerged. One example of the latter would be Project Tumbleweed, aiming to create a rolling-release repository for openSUSE. Going in the opposite direction is Project Evergreen – the Evergreen developers want to provide longer-term support for older openSUSE releases for a core set of packages. And there is the new Virtualization:Cloud project, where a team got together to create a cloud software repository. Finally, we can’t forget to mention the new GNOME:Atayana project, bringing Unity to openSUSE! And those are new just since our last conference! (more…)
New signing key in openSUSE:11.3:Contrib
November 24th, 2010 by News TeamThe old openSUSE:11.3:Contrib signing key got deleted by an accident, so we have to generate the new one and sign all packages in this repo with it. It is safe to accept key with the following fingerprint when yast/zypper ask you to do so:
4FC8 6B50 8808 B7D7 D36C 59E3 CC9C 2F60 7296 AFB2
Sorry for the inconvenience!
openSUSE Conference big success
October 28th, 2010 by Jos Poortvliet“Collaboration Across Borders” – Under this moto the openSUSE Community received in Nuremberg several hundreds of Free Software enthusiasts and contributors. Giving a strong statement to it’s moto, the openSUSE Conference received ambassadors from the Fedora Project and Debian Project as well as people from Mandriva/Mageia, Slackware, Skolelinux and many other distributions. Moreover, many downstream projects presented their work, seeking cooperation with the openSUSE community.
Group photo
Compared to last year the openSUSE conference grew over 30% from 225 to 290 visitors and we heard many comments about how well organized it was. As Thomas Thym wrote in his blog, it was an event for and by the openSUSE community – not the kind of conference where anyone tells anyone else what to do or what has to happen. Read the Conference impression to get a little taste of the event!
We selected a few exciting things and results from the conference – obviously much more has happened, planet openSUSE and the various mailing lists are currently full of after-conference activity.
The openSUSE Build Service 2.1 released
October 19th, 2010 by Andreas Jaeger
The openSUSE 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.
OBS 2.1 Introduces New Features
Enhanced web user interface
This iteration has enhanced the web user interface of openSUSE Build Service with features that were previously only in the osc command line client. It now allows submitting of packages to other projects, showing a history of changes and who did them, with associated comments. This means that the full work flow needed to build packages, contribute them to projects and collaborate on them is available from the web interface.
Easily Building Software for Multiple Distributions and Platforms
September 20th, 2010 by Jos PoortvlietIn a little over a month, the openSUSE conference 2010 will start under the title “collaboration accross borders”. This article highlights one of the main topics at this conference — a truly border-crossing technology called the 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 process. Read on to learn more about the Build Service and what it can do for you!
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