[packagekit] Install rpm similiar to livnarepo forpackagekit for f8

[Justin Haygood]

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From: "Richard Hughes" <hughsient at gmail.com>
Sent: Saturday, November 10, 2007 12:19 PM
To: "PackageKit users and developers list" 
<packagekit at lists.freedesktop.org>
Subject: Re: [packagekit] Install rpm similiar to livnarepo	forpackagekitforf8

>> > On Sat, 2007-11-10 at 10:50 -0600, Christopher Desjardins wrote:
>> > Ken, Elliot, could you create a pre-release/rpm somewhere on the server
>> > pls, and also give me write access on it please? I also see no problem
>> > with other people with commit uploading .deb or .emerge files there.
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Richard.
>> >
>>
>> Have you considered the openSUSE build service? They can generate 
>> packages
>> for:
>>
>> Fedora 6, 7, 8
>> Mandriva 2006, 2007
>> Ubuntu 6.06, 7.04, 7.10
>> Debian Etch
>> openSUSE
>>
>> all using a single spec file
>
> Sounds pretty cool. I'm just not sure that all those have all the deps
> needed for PackageKit, in fact I think only F8 has a new enough
> PolicyKit and DBUS for it to work correctly.
>
> Also, I tend to build several rpm's automatically per day, and just ssh
> them to an area - it takes literally seconds. Resubmitting a build 3
> times a day isn't that much fun  :-)
>
> Richard.
>
>
> _______________________________________________

It's as simple as "osc up" on the .spec and .tar.gz for the source, and the 
OBS will build the package for you on x86, x86_64, and I think ppc.