Thread: Extra softwares in Sailfish using CLI, repositories, etc
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MartinK is offline MartinK
2015-08-05 , 07:58
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Originally Posted by Feathers McGraw View Post
As a general rule, is opensuse the "best" place to get upstream source from? Is there any reason to choose opensuse vs any other distro that uses rpm?
Well, OpenSuse uses OBS, so you can use cross-instance-copy to easily pull packages directly from the OpenSuse OBS to the Mer OBS and build them with the Sailfish OS target.

On the other hand the OpenSuse packaging generally doesn't seem to be that good, so I have not been using this recently, instead pulling packages from Fedora with fedpkg and importing them manually to Mer OBS.

Originally Posted by Feathers McGraw View Post
When I compiled whois I got the source from opensuse; would it have been better to get the spec file from there & adapt it to suit Sailfish, but get the source directly from github?
Compiling/packaging upstream source directly is also an option, but I would recommend, if possible, to use released/tagged versions, not just latest commit from the master/development branch. You should also note the version/tag/hash so that you know what happend since the time you did the build, if there are some new features, fixes or security fixes, etc.
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