Self Introduction / Contributing a package to Fedora

[Rahul Sundaram]

Hi


On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Derek Pressnall  wrote:

> For the Source0 URL, since this project is hosted on Github, the URL that
> leads to the tar.gz file doesn't contain the tar file name (it is "
> https://github.com/derekp7/snebu/tarball/master", which ends up creating
> the tar.gz file name on the fly through HTTP header / javascript magic).  I
> will address this by attaching an exported copy of the tar.gz file as a
> binary asset to the Github progject release.
>

Refer to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:SourceURL#Github


> Also, in the spec file, the release is "1%{?dist}" so that is uses the
> dist macro to fill in automatically.  But I'd like for the SRPM file to be
> release agnostic (so I don't have to host one for each release of Fedora).
>

Well the build system will host the SRPMS for you and you don't have to do
it separately.  Although dist macro is not mandated it is used by the vast
majority of packages in Fedora

Rahul
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