HOWTO package and submit new software

[James Wilkinson]

Sam Tregar wrote:
> I just installed Devil's Pie
> (http://www.burtonini.com/blog/computers/devilspie).  I had to do it
> by hand since there's no RPM for it on the YUM servers I'm using.

Thanks!

> I'm interested in fixing this, presumably by creating an RPM and
> submitting it to a YUM repository.  
> 
> So how do I do that?  Is there a manual somewhere I should read?

One way of doing it is to get it into Fedora Extras. Probably the best
way of doing this is to subscribe to fedora-extras-list at redhat.com and
ask: at the moment, the procedures seem to be in a state of flux...

James.

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