[OT] Advice wanted on packaging a program I wrote.

[Paul Howarth]

On Sun, 2005-07-10 at 15:43 -0400, Tony Nelson wrote:
> Where should I ask for help and advice on packaging a Gedit plugin I've
> been writing?  I think that the packagers on this list mostly, umm,
> "repackage" things.  I've looked at some of the relevent documentation, but
> it will probably take several weeks of study that I can't afford for a
> while.
> 
> I need to make source and binary RPMs for FC3 (that should also work on
> FC4), and the source RPM should be able to install in the gedit-devel area
> and also into a regular Gedit source tree, such as the
> gedit-2.8.1-1.src.rpm I got from the FC3 source rpms.  (The best one can
> say about Gedit documentation is that it is inadequate, and I don't think
> anyone could develop a plugin without having the full Gedit source.)  AIUI
> it will involve choosing the right files to package, making a config file,
> making a tarball (?), and then building and testing the RPMs.

The usual references for RPM building offered on this list do actually
cover building RPMs from scratch rather than just rebuilding them.

Try:

Guru guide:
http://www.gurulabs.com/GURULABS-RPM-LAB/GURULABS-RPM-GUIDE-v1.0.PDF

Maximum RPM:
http://rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>