How do I become a Fedora Extra maintainer

[Arthur Pemberton]

Michael Schwendt wrote:

>On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 22:40:27 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
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>>I would like to learn , basiaclly, how to build RPMs first and foremost. 
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>There have been people, who wrote entire books about RPM. An older one,
>"Maximum RPM" by Ed Bailey from Red Hat, is here as an online version
>enhanced and updated a bit with changes by community contributors:
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>  http://rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/
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>A newer book, the "Red Hat RPM Guide", is this:
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>  http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764549650
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>Paul Howarth already pointed to the recent guide published by Gurulabs.
>There is more documentation like that on the Internet.
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>>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.
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>checkinstall cannot be used for Fedora Extras, however, since it
>creates binary rpms, not src.rpms.
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Ah. Ok. I'll get to reading then. Any suggested mailing lists that I can 
turn to for assistance?