Open Build Service

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Open Build Service

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Basic data

Maintainer openSUSE project
operating system Linux
programming language Perl , Ruby
License GPL 2.0
openbuildservice.org

The Open Build Service (formerly OpenSUSE Build Service ) is an open and complete distribution development platform designed to encourage software developers to develop packages for various Linux distributions , such as SUSE Linux Enterprise Server , openSUSE , Red Hat Enterprise Linux , Mandriva , Ubuntu , Fedora , Debian and Arch Linux .

Typically, it simplifies the packaging process so that developers can easily build a package for different distributions.

The Build Service software is licensed under the GPL .

The Linux Foundation has announced that the project will be added to the Linux Developer Network (LDN) . It is also used in development in various companies, such as the MeeGo project and Tizen . It is also used by the VideoLAN project, the United States Postal Service , Collabora , cPanel , the Erlangen Regional Computing Center , Cray Inc. , Dell and Open-Xchange .

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The obs Open Source Project on Open Hub: Languages ​​Page . In: Open Hub . (accessed on September 21, 2018).
  2. GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE Version 2, June 1991 , GitHub
  3. openSUSE renames OBS. news.opensuse.org, May 26, 2011, accessed November 6, 2012 .
  4. Open Build Service adds support for Arch Linux. openbuildservice.org, September 10, 2012, accessed April 15, 2015 .
  5. Complete openSUSE Build Service under GPL available. lists.opensuse.org, January 24, 2007, accessed November 6, 2012 .
  6. News from the Summit: Linux Foundation to Make the openSUSE Build Service Available Through Linux Developer Network. (No longer available online.) Linux Foundation, archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; accessed on March 14, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.linuxfoundation.org
  7. openSUSE: Build Service installations. opensuse.org, January 27, 2009, accessed November 6, 2012 .