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

[Ashwin]

On 03/14/2011 08:08 PM, Praveen Kumar wrote:
> 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/

Well tried this step with "aria2" package and rebuilt it for Fedora 14 
and built it on koji again for Fedora 15. All works fine, now where can 
I put up the Fedora 14 rpm of aria2 package to allow people to download 
and test ?

with Regards,
ASHWIN

>
> Thanks and Regards,
> Praveen Kumar
> http://kumar-pravin.blogspot.com
>
> On 3/14/11, Ashwin<ashwin.lists at gmail.com>  wrote:
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>> 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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