adding a package to Fedora's EPEL

[Ranjan Maitra]

Hi,

I am the packager for pdf-stapler in Fedora. I would like to make this available on EPEL so that CentOS, etc users may benefit. How do I do that?

Many thanks,
Ranjan

[stan]

On Sat, 24 Sep 2016 14:48:25 -0500
Ranjan Maitra  wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am the packager for pdf-stapler in Fedora. I would like to make
> this available on EPEL so that CentOS, etc users may benefit. How do
> I do that?

I don't know the answer.  But if you don't get an answer here, you
should try the devel list, where the packagers hang out.

You can subscribe by sending an email to
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with subscribe in the subject line, and from the email address you wish
to subscribe with.  I'm not sure how well it will work for an ignored
email address, since there is a confirmation email to that address.

[Matthew Miller]

On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 02:48:25PM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> I am the packager for pdf-stapler in Fedora. I would like to make
> this available on EPEL so that CentOS, etc users may benefit. How do
> I do that?

We have a general page on this for *users* who would like to request a
package be added to EPEL, which I'll point to since this is the users
list:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_a_Fedora_package_in_EPEL

But since you are a packager, I'll save you a little bit of trouble and
quote this part:

If you are already a Fedora contributor, for your own package use the
  standard procedures for PackageDB admin requests.

... which points to:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageDB_admin_requests#Additional_branches_...

and to

https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Mon, 26 Sep 2016 16:07:28 -0400 Matthew Miller  wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 02:48:25PM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > I am the packager for pdf-stapler in Fedora. I would like to make
> > this available on EPEL so that CentOS, etc users may benefit. How do
> > I do that?
>
> We have a general page on this for *users* who would like to request a
> package be added to EPEL, which I'll point to since this is the users
> list:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_a_Fedora_package_in_EPEL
>
> But since you are a packager, I'll save you a little bit of trouble and
> quote this part:
>
> If you are already a Fedora contributor, for your own package use the
>   standard procedures for PackageDB admin requests.
>
> ... which points to:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageDB_admin_requests#Additional_branches_...
>
> and to
>
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb

Thank you for this: this information was very useful.

I have put in my request: while I was at it, I also put in a bunch of requests for EPEL 7 packages for some of my favorite light-weight software. We shall see what happens with the requests.

Best wishes,
Ranjan

[Ranjan Maitra]

On Mon, 26 Sep 2016 16:07:28 -0400 Matthew Miller  wrote:
> On Sat, Sep 24, 2016 at 02:48:25PM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> > I am the packager for pdf-stapler in Fedora. I would like to make
> > this available on EPEL so that CentOS, etc users may benefit. How do
> > I do that?
>
> We have a general page on this for *users* who would like to request a
> package be added to EPEL, which I'll point to since this is the users
> list:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Getting_a_Fedora_package_in_EPEL
>
> But since you are a packager, I'll save you a little bit of trouble and
> quote this part:
>
> If you are already a Fedora contributor, for your own package use the
>   standard procedures for PackageDB admin requests.
>
> ... which points to:
>
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageDB_admin_requests#Additional_branches_...

Hello,

It has been a couple of days since the epel7 branch was created for my package (pdf-stapler). I am a little confused: how does the build get created now? What do I have to do?

I could not find much from the webpage above beyond what I have done to create the branch.

Thanks,
Ranjan

[Matthew Miller]

On Tue, Oct 04, 2016 at 06:08:00PM -0500, Ranjan Maitra wrote:
> It has been a couple of days since the epel7 branch was created for
> my package (pdf-stapler). I am a little confused: how does the build
> get created now? What do I have to do?

In the dist-git checkout, do:

fedpkg switch-branch epel7

if that's empty, do

git merge master

(uh, I think, offhand... I haven't tested that).

and then

fedpkg push
   fedpkg build