5 The openSUSE Build Service (OBS) is an open and complete distribution
6 development platform designed to encourage developers to compile packages for
7 multiple Linux distributions including openSUSE, Red Hat, Mandriva, Ubuntu,
8 Fedora and Debian. It typically simplifies the packaging process, so developers
9 can more easily package a single program for many distributions, and many
10 openSUSE releases, making more packages available to users regardless of what
11 distribution they use.
17 The openSUSE Build Service consists of several parts, namely the backend, the
18 api and the webui. The backend implements all the core functionality (i.e. the
19 business logic), whereas the webui provides a neat browser interface. The api
20 forms the glue between those components and also serves as the integration
21 point to other external tools (hence it's name). Therefore the source code is
24 dist/ - Helpful scripts and utilities
25 docs/ - Documentation and examples
26 src/api/ - Api code (Ruby / Ruby on Rails)
27 src/backend/ - Backend code (Perl)
28 src/webui/ - Webui code (Ruby / Ruby on Rails)
29 shared/ - Stuff shared across the different parts
35 Please refer to the INSTALL file
41 The OBS source code is released under the terms of the GPL, except where noted.
42 Additionally, 3rd-party content (like, but not exclusively, the webui icon
43 theme) may be released under a different license. Please check the respective
46 Further documentation for the Build Service can be found here:
48 http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Build_Service
50 The running build service web interface can be accessed here:
52 http://build.opensuse.org/
55 Your openSUSE Build Service Team