Thanks for the advice, I will be getting to this as soon as my exams are over.<br>
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Peace<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 11/28/05, <b class="gmail_sendername">Michael A. Peters</b> <<a href="mailto:mpeters@mac.com">mpeters@mac.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 02:32 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:<br>> Are there any recent HOWTOs around on RPM building? I would really<br>> like to contribute to Fedora, at least by maintaing packages to<br>> software that I use regularly on my own FC4 install. However the
<br>> HOWTOs I've found seem busy and complicated. I consider myself to be<br>> fairly Linux competent, and so I believe that I have the capabilties<br>> to help.<br>><br>> Please advise, thank you.<br><br>
As mentioned - the Fedora Packaging Guidelines are an excellent<br>resource.<br><br>You can also read the Fedora Extras list - and look at the spec files<br>submitted in the Bugzilla (they are on the extras list) and see the
<br>comments packagers make about them.<br><br>The "Red Hat RPM Guide" by Eric Foster-Johnson is an excellent book - a<br>free version of which I believe is what Aurelien Bompard linked to.<br><br>It's a good book.
<br><br>Best thing to do imho - install fedora-rpmdevtools , take the<br>spectemplate-minimal.spec and use it as a template to package something<br>and submit it to extras (referencing the packaging guidelines in the<br>Extras wiki).
<br><br>You will also want to install mock - so that you can make sure your<br>package builds cleanly before submitting.<br><br>--<br>fedora-devel-list mailing list<br><a href="mailto:fedora-devel-list@redhat.com">fedora-devel-list@redhat.com
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