openSUSE

openSUSE Tumbleweed is one of the mainstream rolling release linux distributions.

The system is built by doers using a shared, global open build service instance.

openSUSE geekos come from all over the world to help build software validly and from scratch.

Developments

My own developments which I use for local builds and rote package management duties.

• suserpmutil: used for packaging Rust and Go

Resources

Using openSUSE:

• openSUSE wiki (my profile)
• SBD:Zypper usage (See also: Wiki:ZYpp)
  • zypper is a frontend to rpm

Concerning the maintenance of packages:

• RPM packaging guide (Source)
• openSUSE:How to Contribute to Factory
  • openSUSE:OSC - osc is key command line tool for interacting with OBS
• openSUSE: Packaging guidelines
• bmwiedemann/openSUSE on GitHub
  • It is a readonly public mirror of openSUSE package repositories, refreshed regularly
  • clone it locally, and use tools like grep to find patterns for building software.
• Repology - package repo aggregator (Linux, FreeBSD, others)

About Open Build Service

In addition to supporting Factory builds of the flagship Tumbleweed project, OBS supports builds for multiple Linux distributions. Namely:

• Fedora/RedHat
• Debian/Ubuntu
• Arch Linux

As well as several CPU architectures:

• x86_64
• ARM32
• ARM64
• i386
• riscv64

It is written primarily in a codebase using Rails, Javascript, Ruby and Perl and has been in active development since 2006.

Package maintainers primarily use the command line tool osc, written in Python, to interact with the build service.

Known issues

See also: NVIDIA driver issues