On Sat, 2020-06-06 at 18:11 +0100, Carlos Mogas da Silva via devel wrote: > Well, I can just put my 2 cents in here... > I've requested my first package not so long ago [1] and after I find the > documentation [2] [3] it > was rather "simple" to > learn how to do a proper spec file. I was a Gentoo dev and an Arch AUR > package and the difference > was enormous since the > other ones are basically bash scripts. RPM is whole different world. > That being said, RPM packaging is not *that* difficult to grasp, everything > is in one place and > easy to understand and > find what your looking for. > What I find that it's missing is the actual tooling that's needed and how to > use it. From fedmsg > to mockbuilds to copr- > cli you name it, let alone the actual workflow of merging a package, "forks, > versions, bodhi", are > some of the terms I > read in this ML, but since I never actually merged one, everything is just > "void" for now. > > All of this did not deter me from making a package and wanting it in the > repos (I even have a few > more to go along with > it), but yes, this part I find that the information is lacking (or maybe I > just didn't find it).
Just for the sake of completeness... [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1835958 [2] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/quick-docs/creating-rpm-packages/ [3] https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/ _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org
