questions about packaging on fedora

[_lorenzo87_]

hi... i just got back to fedora after some months on debian sid and archlinux and i have some questions about making rpms from sources without having alredy a specfile... i googled on it but i found so few interesting howtos... so can someone give me some informations about making custom spec files and how to make rpms for fedora? i was used to dh_make and packagebuilds and i know nothing about rpms

thanks in advice

[RahulSundaram]

Hi

Have you looked at

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to...an_RPM_package

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_RPM_packages_(20090405)

If you have questions, feel free to ask

[_lorenzo87_]

thank you very much Rahul the second link is broken but the first one is great goin' to read

[PabloTwo]

Hello, and welcome to the forum- First thing, make sure you have installed:

yum install rpm-build rpmdevtools redhat-rpm-config rpmlint

In Fedora, you build rpm packages as a regular user, not as root. After installing the above, in your regular user home directory, give the command: rpmdev-setuptree
That will create the directory rpmbuild with the appropriate sub-directories:

BASH:~/-> ls rpmbuild/
BUILD  BUILDROOT  RPMS  SOURCES  SPECS  SRPMS

You can 'cd rpmbuild/SPECS' then: rpmdev-newspec [appname.spec] If you omit the appname.spec option, it will create a basic spec file template using the name "newpackage.spec", which you can rename to suit your needs. You can find a lot of very useful information by reading the files located under these varios directories:

BASH:~/-> ls /usr/share/doc/rpm <hit TAB key twice>
rpm-4.7.2/       rpmdevtools-7.8/ rpmlint-0.95/    rpmrebuild-2.4/

For guidance on the official Fedora way of building rpm packages, go to:
Packaging Guidelines
RPM Guide
How To Create an RPM Package

There are many other helpful guides on the Fedora Project wiki site for guidance on building rpm packages. But this should be enough to get you started.

[_lorenzo87_]

thanks Pablo another great answer i'll try to use your links and Rhaul's for starting with small packages..

[PabloTwo]

Glad to help. You might also want to read through the 2 page thread on this "Packaging" forum, I think titled "How do I join Fedora Project". The discussion there evolves into packaging help and Leigh123 gives a lot of good links to info in that thread.