Packaging Rake Tasks

This is 'packaging_rake_tasks' Ruby gem package.

This gem contains useful tasks for packaging, checking and building with Open Build Service.

Quick Start

For a quick start just add to your Rakefile:

require "packaging"

Packaging.configuration do |conf|
  conf.obs_project = "<obs_devel_project>"
  conf.package_name = "<package_name>"

All shared tasks will be found and loaded automatically, you can verify it with rake -T command.

It is recommended to check whether the defaults fit your needs and change the configuration if needed.


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Explanation of Provided Tasks


Checks if all changes to the local git repository are commited. It doesn't check if changes are sent to a remote git repository. Its main intention is to ensure that all changes are tracked before making a package.


Checks if all non-trivial files have a license header. It is needed because there are countries where implicitely everything is private unless stated otherwise and also to help License Digger check licenses. The check looks for a "copyright" notice or a prefix Source: if the file is copied from a different source. To skip some files use skip_license_check configuration option.


Checks if osc is installed and configured to allow sending to an OBS project. Its goal is to make start of developing easier with helpful error messages.


Checks syntax of all ruby files that can be found.


Runs local build using osc command. It uses separate build roots for each basesystem for more efficient caching.

An optional argument is passed as options to osc and can be used to prefer local packages: rake "osc:build[-p /var/tmp/YaST:Head/openSUSE_Factory]"


Commit current state of git tree to OBS devel project. It runs all checks and create package.


Creates a submit request to the target OBS project (specified with obs_sr_project configuration option). That includes running osc:commit.


Creates a submit request from the development project to the target OBS project. It doesn't run anything else than osc sr <params>.


Creates source files for building. It includes running all checks, tests and creating a tarball.


Creates a tarball of the local git repository without development files.


How to Remove a Task

If there is a task that doesn't make sense for you then you can exclude it from loading.

For example, to exclude the package task, replace the require

require "packaging"


require "packaging/tasks"
Packaging::Tasks.load_tasks(:exclude => ["package.rake"])

To remove check that is used also as dependency for e.g. package, it is needed to remove it also from prerequisites of task. Example how to remove check:license and do not call it when creating package.

require "packaging/tasks"
Packaging::Tasks.load_tasks(:exclude => ["check_license.rake"])

How to Add a New Check for Package

When a project requires a specific check before making a package then implement it and add it to package as dependency:

namespace :check do
  desc "Check for Y3K compliance"
  task :y3k do
task :package => "check:y3k"


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This package is licensed under LGPL-2.1.