Slightly OT: Updated RPM building howto?

[Arthur Pemberton]

Are there any recent HOWTOs around on RPM building? I would really like to
contribute to Fedora, at least by maintaing packages to software that I use
regularly on my own FC4 install. However the HOWTOs I've found seem busy and
complicated. I consider myself to be fairly Linux competent, and so I
believe that I have the capabilties to help.

Please advise, thank you.

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[Aurelien Bompard]

Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>  Are there any recent HOWTOs around on RPM building? I would really
> like to
>  contribute to Fedora, at least by maintaing packages to software that I
>  use regularly on my own FC4 install. However the HOWTOs I've found seem
>  busy and complicated. I consider myself to be fairly Linux competent, and
>  so I believe that I have the capabilties to help. 
You could have a look at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/drafts/rpm-guide-en/
When you're comfortable with rpm building, look at the Fedora Guidelines:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingGuidelines


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[Michael A. Peters]

On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 02:32 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
>  Are there any recent HOWTOs around on RPM building? I would really
>  like to contribute to Fedora, at least by maintaing packages to
>  software that I use regularly on my own FC4 install. However the
>  HOWTOs I've found seem busy and complicated. I consider myself to be
>  fairly Linux competent, and so I believe that I have the capabilties
>  to help.
>  
>  Please advise, thank you. 
As mentioned - the Fedora Packaging Guidelines are an excellent
resource.

You can also read the Fedora Extras list - and look at the spec files
submitted in the Bugzilla (they are on the extras list) and see the
comments packagers make about them.

The "Red Hat RPM Guide" by Eric Foster-Johnson is an excellent book - a
free version of which I believe is what Aurelien Bompard linked to.

It's a good book.

Best thing to do imho - install fedora-rpmdevtools , take the
spectemplate-minimal.spec and use it as a template to package something
and submit it to extras (referencing the packaging guidelines in the
Extras wiki).

You will also want to install mock - so that you can make sure your
package builds cleanly before submitting.

[Arthur Pemberton]

Thanks for the advice, I will be getting to this as soon as my exams are
over.

Peace

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