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Thank you! Yes, I was referring to my work on lightsd.

I didn't know about Suse's OBS until this thread, I guess I need to look into it. I have been building my own CI/CD pipeline on top of Buildbot so far. It's a PITA, but leaves a lot of room for creativity, hopefully it will be rewarding down the road.

I don't know about the -git thing for PKGBUILD, what's the syntax/documentation?

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SUSE's OBS is in my biased opinion (I work at SUSE), probably one of the better ways of solving this problem for ISVs. You don't need a build infrastructure, you can get feedback from distribution maintainers and submission to the main distribution is surprisingly painless. Actually you can build packages for non-SUSE distributions on OBS as well, so it's even more versatile than just the openSUSE community's distributions.

It is briefly mentioned in the manpage, https://www.archlinux.org/pacman/PKGBUILD.5.html, but basically a pkgbuild can use a git repo as a source directly. Here's an example:

https://aur.archlinux.org/cgit/aur.git/tree/PKGBUILD?h=pacma...

Compare it to pacman's release-based pkgbuild:

https://git.archlinux.org/svntogit/packages.git/tree/trunk/P...

The major differences are the "git" url in the sources, the provides/conflicts metadata and the dynamic pkgver() function.

Nice, maybe I'll consider this for dogfooding, thank you for the explanations!

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