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Sourav Basu

25 Oct 2012 25 Oct '12

11 p.m.

Hi,

Can anyone please tell me how to learn to read spec files? I mean any documentation regarding it where I can get more info. Regards,

Sourav

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Mike

25 Oct 25 Oct

11:06 p.m.

Sourav,

There is documentation, although slightly dated, at tldp: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/RPM-HOWTO/build.html

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From Fedora, there is:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package

Thanks

Mike

On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Sourav Basu sourav.tumu@yahoo.com wrote:

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Hi,

Can anyone please tell me how to learn to read spec files? I mean any documentation regarding it where I can get more info.

Regards,

Sourav

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Ankur Sinha

26 Oct 26 Oct

1:18 a.m.

On Thu, 2012-10-25 at 14:06 -0700, Mike wrote:

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Sourav,

There is documentation, although slightly dated, at tldp: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/RPM-HOWTO/build.html

From Fedora, there is: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package

Thanks

Mike

Hi folks,

The wiki has multiple pages on spec and rpm packaging. Some of them:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_a_GNU_Hello_RPM_package?rd=A_Sh...

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ReviewGuidelines

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Package_Maintainers?rd=PackageMainta...

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Using_Mock_to_test_package_builds

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Join_the_package_collection_maintainers

and quite a few more :)

You also have other sources:

http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ch-rpm-inside.html