[X2Go-Dev] X2Go packages for SUSE-based systems

[Mike Gabriel]

Hi Alex,

SUSE packages on packages.x2go.org are built from the 
.spec files in the Git repos on git.x2go.org. Packages get built via jenkins.x2go.org. The .spec files are maintained by X2Go upsteam devs.

The .spec files that build X2Go packages on OBS have been created by Jan Engelhardt and initially were of high quality and up-to-date. The OBS packaging had been sponsored financially by Michael Kromers company.

However, the OBS packages had various issues, some of them you have already named.

The RPM packages hosted on packages.x2go.org are IMHO more similar to our Debian packages and should be preferred.

However, I haven't tried then for a while now and I neither know if the Jenkins build jobs are up-to-date and if recent SUSE versions are already supported.

I guess this all needs some love...

Mike

On Wed Mar 2 17:28:17 2016 GMT+0100, Oleksandr Shneyder wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> Can someone explain what is the difference between RPMs in the
> 
> obs://X11:RemoteDesktop:x2go/<distr>
> 
> and
> 
> http://packages.x2go.org/opensuse/<distro-version>/main
> 
> ?
> 
> in different places on our wiki page you can found references to both of
> them:
> http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/doc:installation:x2goserver#adding_repositories
> http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/wiki:repositories:suse
> http://wiki.x2go.org/doku.php/wiki:repositories:start#open-_suse
> 
> 
> It could be very confusing for users. Some of my customers installed
> packages from OBS and they didn't work as expected. I also tried this
> packages and figured out, that they are not equivalent to the packages
> from packages.x2go.org. For example, package x2goagent has no X2GO
> branding. Agent displays "!m" splash screen and "!m" icon. Customizing
> of keystrokes.cfg didn't work neither. I don't know if there are any
> other differences, I didn't make further investigations.
> I think, we should make it clear for the users on our wiki page, which
> packages we suggesting to use. If we giving a reference to the external
> resources, we should say what is difference between "our" packages and
> packages built by other people.
> 
> regards
> Alex
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