How do I become someone who helps build and maintain packages that others can enjoy? Every now and then I end up compiling a program and I believe it would be a lot cleaner on my system as an rpm, and that others might find it usful. Currently all I have is the will , a little bash and python knowledge, my LUG, and this list.
Please advise.
Thank you
On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 01:47 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
How do I become someone who helps build and maintain packages that others can enjoy? Every now and then I end up compiling a program and I believe it would be a lot cleaner on my system as an rpm, and that others might find it usful. Currently all I have is the will , a little bash and python knowledge, my LUG, and this list.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras
Ralf
On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 07:53:35 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 01:47 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
How do I become someone who helps build and maintain packages that others can enjoy? Every now and then I end up compiling a program and I believe it would be a lot cleaner on my system as an rpm, and that others might find it usful. Currently all I have is the will , a little bash and python knowledge, my LUG, and this list.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras
Ralf
Plus, if any of the pages raises any questions, please don't hide but join fedora-extras-list and ask, or even reply off-list.
Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 07:53:35 +0200, Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 01:47 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
How do I become someone who helps build and maintain packages that others can enjoy? Every now and then I end up compiling a program and I believe it would be a lot cleaner on my system as an rpm, and that others might find it usful. Currently all I have is the will , a little bash and python knowledge, my LUG, and this list.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras
Ralf
Plus, if any of the pages raises any questions, please don't hide but join fedora-extras-list and ask, or even reply off-list.
I joined the list pre startign this thread. However the traffic there seemed to be trictly business.
Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 01:47 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
How do I become someone who helps build and maintain packages that others can enjoy? Every now and then I end up compiling a program and I believe it would be a lot cleaner on my system as an rpm, and that others might find it usful. Currently all I have is the will , a little bash and python knowledge, my LUG, and this list.
I checked there out. I was hoping for HOWTOs and tutorials on the subject. As I said, currently all I have is the will.
Ralf
On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 19:49:15 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 01:47 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
How do I become someone who helps build and maintain packages that others can enjoy? Every now and then I end up compiling a program and I believe it would be a lot cleaner on my system as an rpm, and that others might find it usful. Currently all I have is the will , a little bash and python knowledge, my LUG, and this list.
I checked there out. I was hoping for HOWTOs and tutorials on the subject. As I said, currently all I have is the will.
Hmmm, if you could expand a little bit, please, on what you'd like to know, I promise to reply with more than 2-3 lines, too. :-) The aforementioned page links several howto/faq-like documents.
Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 19:49:15 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
Ralf Corsepius wrote:
On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 01:47 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
How do I become someone who helps build and maintain packages that others can enjoy? Every now and then I end up compiling a program and I believe it would be a lot cleaner on my system as an rpm, and that others might find it usful. Currently all I have is the will , a little bash and python knowledge, my LUG, and this list.
I checked there out. I was hoping for HOWTOs and tutorials on the subject. As I said, currently all I have is the will.
Hmmm, if you could expand a little bit, please, on what you'd like to know, I promise to reply with more than 2-3 lines, too. :-) The aforementioned page links several howto/faq-like documents.
I would like to learn , basiaclly, how to build RPMs first and foremost. I would also like to learn how to submit packages to Fedora Extra, although that part seems to be documented adequately.
I would also appreciate an RPM for checkinstall that works in FC4. I seem to be segfaulting with the one available in Extras. I understand that there is a patch out for it.
On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 22:40 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
I would like to learn , basiaclly, how to build RPMs first and foremost.
There is a very good guide at: http://www.gurulabs.com/GURULABS-RPM-LAB/GURULABS-RPM-GUIDE-v1.0.PDF
Paul.
On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 22:40:27 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
I would like to learn , basiaclly, how to build RPMs first and foremost.
There have been people, who wrote entire books about RPM. An older one, "Maximum RPM" by Ed Bailey from Red Hat, is here as an online version enhanced and updated a bit with changes by community contributors:
http://rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/
A newer book, the "Red Hat RPM Guide", is this:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764549650
Paul Howarth already pointed to the recent guide published by Gurulabs. There is more documentation like that on the Internet.
I would also appreciate an RPM for checkinstall that works in FC4. I seem to be segfaulting with the one available in Extras. I understand that there is a patch out for it.
checkinstall cannot be used for Fedora Extras, however, since it creates binary rpms, not src.rpms.
Michael Schwendt wrote:
On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 22:40:27 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
I would like to learn , basiaclly, how to build RPMs first and foremost.
There have been people, who wrote entire books about RPM. An older one, "Maximum RPM" by Ed Bailey from Red Hat, is here as an online version enhanced and updated a bit with changes by community contributors:
http://rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/
A newer book, the "Red Hat RPM Guide", is this:
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764549650
Paul Howarth already pointed to the recent guide published by Gurulabs. There is more documentation like that on the Internet.
I would also appreciate an RPM for checkinstall that works in FC4. I seem to be segfaulting with the one available in Extras. I understand that there is a patch out for it.
checkinstall cannot be used for Fedora Extras, however, since it creates binary rpms, not src.rpms.
Ah. Ok. I'll get to reading then. Any suggested mailing lists that I can turn to for assistance?
On Mon, 04 Jul 2005 02:12:15 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
Any suggested mailing lists that I can turn to for assistance?
https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-packaging https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-extras-list