Novell Delivers openSUSE Build Service 1.0

Published: July 22, 2008

by Timothy Prickett Morgan

Commercial Linux distributor Novell created a build service for putting together custom distros over two years ago, and has been adding features to it for that time. And last week, the company finally put out the 1.0 release of the service, which means it is ready for production-level use.

The openSUSE Build Service, as it is called, is available at the openSUSE project where Novell and various contributors to the project help put together the openSUSE development releases that are eventually the foundation for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server and SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop, the commercially supported variants of SUSE Linux.

With openSUSE Build Service 1.0, the service has complete access to the code repository behind openSUSE development releases, which means that it is easier for programmers to get code and contribute to the project. And as previously reported, the openSUSE Build Service is not just for creating spins of openSUSE Linux. The service also can be used to create spins of Red Hat's Enterprise Linux commercial releases and Fedora development releases, Canonical's Ubuntu variant of Debian as well as the plain vanilla Debian, the CentOS clone of RHEL, and Mandriva Linux as well. The service has been enhanced with a more streamlined package search, branch handling for creating branches of distros that can be maintained into the future, quality assurance integration, a submission handling and notification system for managing code submissions and the integration of those mods into projects, and much-improved handling of source code.

Joe Brockmeier, the openSUSE community manager at Novell, says that the openSUSE Build Service is now feature complete and that Novell is looking for feedback on making it better.

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