Comments on: openSUSE Build Service

By: Shawn Protsman

Shawn Protsman — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 10:40:57 +0000

I’m using the SLED repository. I realized after updating that I couldn’t play all my m4a files (of which that is the format of most of my music since I use iTunes in OS X and XP). Is there a workaround for the Helix support?

By: Gilles Fabio

Gilles Fabio — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 09:41:34 +0000

Aaron, I just want to say: thank you very much! Banshee is a wonderful application that I love and promote. Great news for SUSE users!

By: AdamW

AdamW — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 19:23:28 +0000

I don’t know about the other distros you mentioned, but we (Mandriva) actually have an official repository which can be used to backport new versions of packages to the last stable release (2007). On our mirrors, it’s:

/MandrivaLinux/official/2007.0/{arch}/media/main/backports

so our banshee packager can, if he so chooses, build updated banshee packages for 2007 and provide them through this repository.

By: Mike Petersen

Mike Petersen — Fri, 10 Nov 2006 19:18:23 +0000

I have been steadily building other packages for SLED10, they are available at – http://www.pcc-services.com/sled10_rpms.html
These are built with the focus of not totally messing up a SLED10 Install and all are categorized under a “CustomBuilt” Category so you can easily see what is not from Novell. So far I only had to “overwrite” a few packages from SLED10…Totem and mpegtools, just because of idiotic patent issues.

I personally tried to install packages built for opensuse 10.1, but never had any luck… Thus these packages exist. NOTE that I am mostly converting Gentoo portage scripts into RPMs, not rebuilding other SRPMs available.