Slightly OT: Updated RPM building howto?

Arthur Pemberton pemboa at gmail.com
Tue Nov 29 03:33:54 UTC 2005


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 at mac.com> 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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