obs-generator

KDE OBS generator is a tool that makes it simple to package applications in the openSUSE build service for multiple distributions. Using documentation (and a tutorial) at http://old-en.opensuse.org/KDE/Build_Service/Cross-distro it is possible to create .rpm and .deb packages for several versions of openSUSE, Fedora, Kubuntu and Mandriva.

Since kde-apps.org has support for providing download links pointing to the build service, kde-obs-generator can make it very easy to provide binary packages even for developers with little or no packaging experience.

Note that the tool is currently still considered experimental and work in progress, but it is usable and a number of packages have been already created using it (see e.g. http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/llunak:/kdetest).

See also http://www.kdedevelopers.org/node/4177 .

Documentation: http://old-en.opensuse.org/KDE/Build_Service/Cross-distro
(see especially the tutorial if you are new to kde-obs-generator).

0.4:
- renamed to obs-generator
- no KDE dependencies
0.3.3:
- autotools parsing fixes
0.3.2:
- handle ${KCONF_UDPATE_INSTALL_DIR}
- handle and warn about incorrect usage of ${INSTALL_TARGETS_DEFAULT_ARGS}
- handle pkg{data|lib|include|libexec}dir for autotools
- check for more disallowed characters for debian package names
0.3.1:
- make ubuntu packages be shown on kde-apps.org too
0.3:
- autotools and qmake support
- usable also for generating packages that do not require the special cross-distro setup (i.e. it is possible to create e.g. normal openSUSE packages)
0.2.9:
- try harder to detect version from tarball name
0.2.8:
- handle also the case when the developer was too lazy to create the tarball with a toplevel directory
0.2.7:
- RPM group and DEB section are set by default only for KDE apps, others now need manual setting in INFO (see http://en.opensuse.org/KDE/Build_Service/Cross-distro/Fixing_problems#Missing_substitutes)
- --analyzer option, use "--analyzer none" when the INFO file already provides all the information (allows for external analyzers)
- experimental autotools analyzer, incomplete
- several possible parsing errors fixed
0.2.6:
- improved support for installing translations (GETTEXT_PROCESS_PO_FILES with a wildcard)
- check if osc has been already set up
0.2.5:
- fixes for Ubuntu build
0.2.4:
- improved support for python-kde4
- improved support for installing translations