[fedora-india] Becoming a Fedora package maintainer, easier than ever

[Praveen Kumar]

1.You can reuse spec file if you think it save your time.
2.You can get source code and srpm some fedora mirror site like
http://legunix.mirrorservice.org/sites/fedora.redhat.com/development/rawhide/source/SRPMS/

Thanks and Regards,
Praveen Kumar
http://kumar-pravin.blogspot.com

On 3/14/11, Ashwin <ashwin.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> On 03/14/2011 06:37 PM, Ashwin wrote:
>> On 03/13/2011 07:56 PM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
>>> On 03/13/2011 03:11 PM, Ashwin wrote:
>>>> I tried,
>>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_a_GNU_Hello_RPM_package and
>>>> it works. The step on "mock" is still downloading the bits @ 256Kbps.
>>>> Anyway other way to do it instead of downloading so much bits for the
>>>> mock environment ?
>>>
>>> Koji scratch builds
>>>
>>> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_the_Koji_build_system#Scratch_Builds
>>>
>>>
>>
>> Tried now. It is Great. It works.
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers is
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> yet to incorporate this new arrangement of "co-maintainer" registration
>>>> etc. Is there any other page created for this purpose ? How do I
>>>> register / join as a "co-maintainer" ?
>>>
>>> I have described the steps in my previous mail.
>>
>> Now I have a fedora account - "ashman" and hopefully all ready for
>> packaging.
>> Tell me *one* simple :) package which needs packaging.
> Oh yes, one more thing.. Being a "co-maintainer" -
> Do I write a new spec file or I have to reuse one created by you ?
> Is there any specific place to obtain the source code ?
>
> with Regards,
> ASHWIN
>


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Praveen kumar
Information Technology(Final Year)
NIT Durgapur
Blog: http://kumar-pravin.blogspot.com
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