Simon Lees - An Introduction to openSUSE Packaging using Git and OBS

This talk doesn't aim to teach you everything about packaging, but mostly tries to expose you to the basic concepts. It will also try to show what is possible so that if you'd like to package something yourself you will have a good starting point as a reference. Firstly we will look at the question of ""What is Packaging"" and what does it involve. Then we will start to look into openSUSE's tools for packaging with an introduction to RPM's with a focus on looking into the details of spec files and what they mean. We will look at both the older obs workflow and the newer git workflow. Following that I will talk about how I personally would start a new package. Finally we will look at the process of contributing your packages into openSUSE's Linux Distro's, tracking there progress through stagings along with how to submit maintenance to already released openSUSE Distros.