How do I become a Fedora Extra maintainer

[Arthur Pemberton]

Michael Schwendt wrote:

>On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 19:49:15 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
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>>Ralf Corsepius wrote:
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>>>On Sat, 2005-07-02 at 01:47 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
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>>>>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.
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>>>http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras
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>>I checked there out. I was hoping for HOWTOs and tutorials on the 
>>subject. As I said, currently all I have is the will.
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>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.
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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.