Thanks for the advice, I will be getting to this as soon as my exams are over. Peace <div>On 11/28/05, Michael A. Peters <<a href="mailto:mpeters@mac.com">mpeters@mac.com</a>> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 02:32 -0600, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > Are there any recent HOWTOs around on RPM building? I would really > like to contribute to Fedora, at least by maintaing packages to > software that I use regularly on my own FC4 install. However the > HOWTOs I've found seem busy and complicated. I consider myself to be > fairly Linux competent, and so I believe that I have the capabilties > to help. > > Please advise, thank you. As mentioned - the Fedora Packaging Guidelines are an excellent resource. You can also read the Fedora Extras list - and look at the spec files submitted in the Bugzilla (they are on the extras list) and see the comments packagers make about them. The "Red Hat RPM Guide" by Eric Foster-Johnson is an excellent book - a free version of which I believe is what Aurelien Bompard linked to. It's a good book. Best thing to do imho - install fedora-rpmdevtools , take the spectemplate-minimal.spec and use it as a template to package something and submit it to extras (referencing the packaging guidelines in the Extras wiki). You will also want to install mock - so that you can make sure your package builds cleanly before submitting. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list <a href="mailto:fedora-devel-list@redhat.com">fedora-devel-list@redhat.com </a> <a href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list</a> </blockquote></div> -- As a boy I jumped through Windows, as a man I play with Penguins.