openSUSE's Open Build Service 2.7 Adds Better Integration of External Resources

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  • Post Updated: April 3, 2024

openSUSE Project, through Henne Vogelsang, announced on June 6, 2016, the general availability of the version 2.7 of the project’s Open Build Service (OBS) software distribution solution.

Think of Open Build Service like Canonical’s Launchpad website, where application developers can create software repositories to distribute automatic updates to users. Something very similar to a PPA (Personal Package Archive), but designed to work with multiple GNU/Linux distributions.

The new version, Open Build Service 2.7, has been in development for the past few months, during which the openSUSE developers and members of the community worked together to add many new useful features and improvements. In numbers, there were over 2000 commits, with 9.000 additions and 16.000 deletions.

“The latest OBS version version is always deployed to our reference server,” said … (read more)

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