[X2Go-Dev] Why are we not adding packages.x2go.org to mock and obs?

[Mihai Moldovan]

Hi

The subject pretty much sums it up. We are currently not adding our
packages on packages.x2go.org to mock and obs builds. Is there any
specific reason, why not?

To build cleanly?

This is a deal breaker for packages that require x2go packages at build
time when downstream does not have official x2go* packages.

For instance, any package depending on x2goserver at build time will
fail to build for OpenSUSE, because OpenSUSE is not providing any x2go
packages.

Another incarnation is the issue I mentioned here:
http://lists.x2go.org/pipermail/x2go-dev/2015-March/009739.html

On Fedora (possibly EPEL, too), x2goserver-extensions does not exist as
a special package, but the functionality is merged into the "x2goserver"
package.

A more general description: our builds for packages.x2go.org will fail
whenever there is a build dependency on x2go packages, that may have
been edited by distribution maintainers. We have no control over this.

Adding the x2go repositories will, though, make sure we control this aspect.

Furthermore, Debian builds always* add our own package repository.


I will go ahead and add our repository to obs and mock builds, if the
reason is merely "because nobody implemented it so far".



Mihai

*) No rule without an exception. In this case the exception is
"x2go-keyring".

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