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by mapleoin 4622 days ago
Meanwhile, the best package building and hosting site that no one has ever heard of: http://openbuildservice.org/ https://build.opensuse.org/

supports all major distros: openSUSE, Fedora, Debian-based, even Arch.

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As no one ever heard of this, it is probably not going to last for long, especially if its existence is 100% based on funding by SUSE / The Attachmate Group.

Don't get me wrong but such tools should be vendor-independent unless it targets only the vendor-specific distribution and have a clear business model so it can operate profitable.

Last time I tried to use this. I got annoyed just reading the install docs for running my own 'private' server & gave up.

To Attachmate/Novell/SUSE: Make your software easier to install. Otherwise no one will use it. And you will have to do all the work, which makes me wonder why you bothered open sourcing it at all.

Last time I checked it was very much an RPM-oriented build service, with only very basic support for Debian packages.