<html><head><style type="text/css"></style></head><body><div style="font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">Hi Scott, Please go through the link: <a target="_blank" href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/drafts/rpm-guide-en/ch11s02.html">http://docs.fedoraproject.org/drafts/rpm-guide-en/ch11s02.html</a> Btw, your tarball is missing spec file i think. <div style="font-family: times new roman,new york,times,serif; font-size: 12pt;">----- Original Message ---- From: Scott Berry <sberry@northlc.com> To: fedora-devel-list@redhat.com Sent: Thursday, June 7, 2007 8:36:53 AM Subject: an introduction and a question <div>Hello, My name is Scott Berry. I am located in the United States in Minnesota up toward the Canadian border. I am totally blind and found a program covered under the BSD license that I would like to get packaged for Fedora. The name of the program is Webmin. I have spoken to the author and he has okayed for me to do this. I have a question though. Actually a few of them. I am brand new to packaging so these may sound kind of silly. 1. I tried creating an rpm of Webmin from the newest sources at <a target="_blank" href="http://www.webmin.com">www.webmin.com</a>. 2. I have the program on my server and I did the following command with errors: "Rpmbuild -ts webmin-1.350.tar.gz" and I got the following errors: error: Name field must be present in package: (main package) error: Version field must be present in package: (main package) error: Release field must be present in package: (main package) error: Summary field must be present in package: (main package) error: Group field must be present in package: (main package) error: License field must be present in package: (main package) 3. What is the spec file and do I need to build this myself or how is it built and where should it be put? Again I apologize if these sound like simple questions but I would like to give back what I have been freely given by Fedora. Scott -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@redhat.com <a target="_blank" href="https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list">https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list</a> </div></div> </div></div> <hr size=1>Be a better Heartthrob. <a href="http://us.rd.yahoo.com/evt=48255/*http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/_ylc=X3oDMTI5MGx2aThyBF9TAzIxMTU1MDAzNTIEX3MDMzk2NTQ1MTAzBHNlYwNCQUJwaWxsYXJfTklfMzYwBHNsawNQcm9kdWN0X3F1ZXN0aW9uX3BhZ2U-?link=list&sid=396545433">Get better relationship answers </a>from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers - Check it out. </body></html>