Post ready for review: How RPM packages are made

[Ankur Sinha]

Hello,

This is a follow up post to the "RPM Packages explained" post. It covers
how they are made.

Public preview link:
https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=29190&preview=1&_ppp=dbc689780a

It is slightly longer than I'd like, but one cannot really explain the
build process without touching on the spec file. I also wanted to
include enough code snippets so that readers could try the commands out.
Hopefully, it'll help them get a little comfortable with the process and
think about joining the package maintainers :)

While long, it's quite simple to follow though (or so I hope).

[Adam Samalik]

That looks really good! I'm sure we'll get it scheduled tomorrow during the
meeting.

Cheers!
Adam

On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 12:53 PM Ankur Sinha  wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is a follow up post to the "RPM Packages explained" post. It covers
> how they are made.
>
> Public preview link:
> https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=29190&preview=1&_ppp=dbc689780a
>
> It is slightly longer than I'd like, but one cannot really explain the
> build process without touching on the spec file. I also wanted to
> include enough code snippets so that readers could try the commands out.
> Hopefully, it'll help them get a little comfortable with the process and
> think about joining the package maintainers :)
>
> While long, it's quite simple to follow though (or so I hope).
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Regards,
> Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" (He / Him / His) |
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
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[Clement Verna]

On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 at 15:56, Adam Samalik  wrote:
> That looks really good! I'm sure we'll get it scheduled tomorrow during

the
> meeting.

Hi Ankur,

We have discussed your article during today's editor's meeting.
We felt that your article could benefit from being 2 separate articles, is
that something that you think you could do? If not that's fine with us and
we will publish it as it is ☺

Thanks
Clément
> Cheers!
> Adam
>
> On Tue, Aug 20, 2019 at 12:53 PM Ankur Sinha

wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > This is a follow up post to the "RPM Packages explained" post. It covers
> > how they are made.
> >
> > Public preview link:
> > https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=29190&preview=1&_ppp=dbc689780a
> >
> > It is slightly longer than I'd like, but one cannot really explain the
> > build process without touching on the spec file. I also wanted to
> > include enough code snippets so that readers could try the commands out.
> > Hopefully, it'll help them get a little comfortable with the process and
> > think about joining the package maintainers :)
> >
> > While long, it's quite simple to follow though (or so I hope).
> >
> > --
> > Thanks,
> > Regards,
> > Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" (He / Him / His) |
> > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
> > Time zone: Europe/London
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>
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[Ankur Sinha]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 14:24:46 +0200, Clement Verna wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 at 15:56, Adam Samalik  wrote:
> > That looks really good! I'm sure we'll get it scheduled tomorrow during
>
> the
> > meeting.
>
> Hi Ankur,

Hi Clément,
> We have discussed your article during today's editor's meeting.
> We felt that your article could benefit from being 2 separate articles, is
> that something that you think you could do? If not that's fine with us and
> we will publish it as it is ☺

Sure. How would you suggest it be split? I had originally thought I'd
limit the first post to the src rpm only, and then cover the spec file
in another, but somehow they feel incomplete that way. :/

[Paul Frields]

One way to split it would be after Step 1 of the spec file section.
Everything up to this point is informational (and well done!). So the first
part would thus be informational about RPMs, and the second part would be
all about the building of RPMs.

How does that sound?

Paul

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 at 9:19 AM Ankur Sinha  wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 14:24:46 +0200, Clement Verna wrote:
> > On Tue, 20 Aug 2019 at 15:56, Adam Samalik  wrote:
> > > That looks really good! I'm sure we'll get it scheduled tomorrow during
> >
> > the
> > > meeting.
> >
> > Hi Ankur,
>
> Hi Clément,
> > We have discussed your article during today's editor's meeting.
> > We felt that your article could benefit from being 2 separate articles,
>
> is
> > that something that you think you could do? If not that's fine with us
>
> and
> > we will publish it as it is ☺
>
> Sure. How would you suggest it be split? I had originally thought I'd
> limit the first post to the src rpm only, and then cover the spec file
> in another, but somehow they feel incomplete that way. :/
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Regards,
> Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" (He / Him / His) |
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
> Time zone: Europe/London
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[Ankur Sinha]

On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 13:44:37 -0400, Paul Frields wrote:
> One way to split it would be after Step 1 of the spec file section. Everything
> up to this point is informational (and well done!). So the first part would
> thus be informational about RPMs, and the second part would be all about the
> building of RPMs.
>
> How does that sound?

Thanks---that works. I broke the article into two. The first stops at
source RPMs, and the second goes on to look at spec files:

- source RPMS: https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=29190&preview=1&_ppp=2a56b0ba68
- spec files etc: https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=29207&preview=1&_ppp=1126aa4f06

They are both ready for review.

[Adam Samalik]

On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 4:29 PM Ankur Sinha  wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 22, 2019 13:44:37 -0400, Paul Frields wrote:
> > One way to split it would be after Step 1 of the spec file section.
>
> Everything
> > up to this point is informational (and well done!). So the first part
>
> would
> > thus be informational about RPMs, and the second part would be all about
>
> the
> > building of RPMs.
> >
> > How does that sound?
>
> Thanks---that works. I broke the article into two. The first stops at
> source RPMs, and the second goes on to look at spec files:
> source RPMS:
>
> https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=29190&preview=1&_ppp=2a56b0ba68
> spec files etc:
>
> https://fedoramagazine.org/?p=29207&preview=1&_ppp=1126aa4f06
>
> They are both ready for review.

Nice, that looks good.

I've reviewed the first one and scheduled it for today. I think we could
plan the other one for next Monday.

Thanks again!
Cheers,
Adam
> --
> Thanks,
> Regards,
> Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" (He / Him / His) |
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
> Time zone: Europe/London

[Ankur Sinha]

Hello!

Thanks for publishing the spec file post. I made a mistake that seems to
have slipped through and may confuse readers:

The command snipped:

```
$ cd ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES
$ rpmbuild -bs fpaste.spec
```

should be:

```
$ cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS
$ rpmbuild -bs fpaste.spec
```

Would someone be able to correct this please when you have a minute?

[Paul Frields]

Done.

On Mon, Sep 2, 2019, 5:41 PM Ankur Sinha  wrote:
> Hello!
>
> Thanks for publishing the spec file post. I made a mistake that seems to
> have slipped through and may confuse readers:
>
> The command snipped:
> $ cd ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES
> $ rpmbuild -bs fpaste.spec
>
> should be:
> $ cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS
> $ rpmbuild -bs fpaste.spec
>
> Would someone be able to correct this please when you have a minute?
>
> --
> Thanks,
> Regards,
> Ankur Sinha "FranciscoD" (He / Him / His) |
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Ankursinha
> Time zone: Europe/London
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[Ankur Sinha]

On Mon, Sep 02, 2019 19:51:46 -0400, Paul Frields wrote:
> Done.

Thanks! :)