Feel free to ping me on freenode #fedora-devel, or #fedora-bigdata.
We've been doing a fair amount of packaging lately, and could offer up tips where
needed.
I often find the best starting point is here:
From: "Tako Schotanus" <tschotan(a)redhat.com>
To: devel(a)lists.fedoraproject.org
Sent: Friday, November 22, 2013 6:58:03 AM
Subject: Introduction
Hi,
I read that somebody wanting to be a package maintainer should introduce
themselves, well here goes.
I'm Tako, a Software Engineer for Red Hat working on a new language, Ceylon
(
http://ceylon-lang.org), that runs on top of the Java and Javascript VMs.
We just published out first 1.0.0 and although we already had RPMs (and
ZIPs and DEBs) that could be downloaded from our website for a while now
we'd like to add the package to the official Fedora repositories now that
we're at 1.0.0 (also because Ubuntu is working on getting the package into
their repos and as a RedHat sponsored project it would be weird if we didn't
do the same for Fedora, right?)
So I'm completely new to this packaging business, I managed to piece together
a SPEC file that results in an actually working RPM for our project and even
Koji seems to accept it, but there's so much information to absorb that I'm
feeling a bit out of my depth. (Our project being a programming language
we're dealing with some difficult issues with respect to versioning and
such, for now I've copied Java's with alternatives and such which might or
not be a good idea). So if there are some friendly people here that can
guide me through my first real submission that would be great!
Cheers,
Tako Schotanus
Senior Software Developer
Ceylon Language Project
www.ceylon-lang.org
RedHat
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