Good Tutorial On RPM Creation?

[Todd Zullinger]

Kelly wrote:
> I was going to offer to maintain some of the packages in Fedora, but
> to be entirely frank I am completely unfamiliar with the process of
> creating an RPM (outside of using checkinstall).  Is there a good
> tutorial that can explain the process?  I do know how to write Bash
> scripts, if that's any help (I believe most of the spec file is Bash
> scripts).

I think the following resources would make a decent starting point and
reference:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Docs/Drafts/BuildingPackagesGuide
http://rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/drafts/rpm-guide-en/

There are also many good things to learn about packaging (both how and
why) in reading:

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

and the docs linked within that.

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