Building rpms for FC3 ?

Michael Schwendt fedora at wir-sind-cool.org
Sat Nov 13 19:04:42 UTC 2004


On Sat, 13 Nov 2004 11:44:00 -0700, Kim Lux wrote:

> I use a number of packages that don't ship with FC3: qcad, xcircuit,
> etc.  The suppliers of these packages usually offer rpms for certain
> distros.  I've never built an rpm before.  Is it worthwhile for me to
> build an FC3 RPM and share it with the package suppliers ?  Or should I
> leave this for the package developers to do, if and when they get FC3
> installed ?

It is common practice for some software projects to accept contributed
distribution-specific packages and either link them in the download
section of a web site or declare them official builds. Many projects
want their software to be available for as many distributions as
possible without that users need to compile source code.

However, not seldomly a packager stopped improving a package as soon
as it seemed to build in his specific environment. And then the binary
builds install, but lack desktop menu entries or other integration
work. Or the packager didn't build on a clean Fedora Core system and
doesn't mention where to get required dependencies.

Alternatively, you could also help with [and gain experience with] the
qcad package for Fedora Extras and tell the upstream project about it
when it's ready: https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=848
 
> Is there anything I need to watch out for if I do build rpms ? 

Find some packaging hints and guidelines here:
http://www.fedora.us/wiki/FedoraDocuments

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