SUSE/OpenSUSE: Open Build Service and Dr. Alex Braun

Here at SUSE we heavily use Open Build Service, and often while collaborating on a project (In my case, openQA) one has to add a new package as a dependency from time to time, or has to do a backport for an older SLE or openSUSE Leap release

It boils down to the following steps, in this case I wanted to change the project to build against SUSE:SLE-12-SPX:Update instead of SUSE:SLE-12-SPX:GM which is a build target that will get the updates while the GM doesn’t, all this, because I wanted to add openvswitch to the project, so that we could use new features in our openQA deployments.

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