Breaking Barriers: Cross-Distro CI/CD with Packit and OBS
summary
Packit now creates a source RPM from upstream and triggers OBS builds via XML API to run openSUSE builds and image/container outputs; a Google Summer of Code contribution carries most of the integration and a live demo shows builds starting successfully on build.opensuse.org. Current limits: change‑log handling uses regex, OBS’s custom VCS forces the source‑RPM shortcut, and Packit cannot yet push distro updates (no automatic package merge into openSUSE). Future work targets proper merge requests once OBS migrates to git.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Cross-distro CI/CD intro
- 1:05Linux distro build infrastructure
- 4:39Packit bridging upstream/downstream
- 7:50OBS architecture challenges
- 14:52Packit-OBS integration history
- 17:26Packit integration with OBS today
- 22:47Git migration future impact
- 24:37Closing & Q&A
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