On Mon, Oct 28, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Magnus Therning <magnus@therning.org> wrote:

I've once again lost access to the server I use to build [haskell-core], this time it's entirely my own doing :( So I'm once again looking around to see if there are any generally available build servers, but the only one I find is OBS[1] (in particular OpenSUSE's server[2]).

Does anyone on the list have experience of using OBS for building packages for Arch Linux?

Would OBS scale to building and maintaining about 200 Arch Linux packages?

Are there any other options out there?

Hi, I've personally never used OBS to build Arch packages, but I used it to build OpenSuSE packages (and I tried some Fedora packaging, too). In my opinion OBS is quite nice project. You just upload files needed for build (in my case it was a spec file and sources) and go do something else. In the meantime it will build and it will be published unless there was a problem with build. The only problem is that it always run some king of lint on the resulting package and it has always been really picky about problems (no matter if it was intentional), so be prepared that it may run namcap on the package and explode on every warning. But once all you packages are just perfect, it is great to use. You can easily rebuild many packages by just clicking an icon, you can build for multiple distributions etc. I suggest you to try it. Lukas