Hmmm... I just wanted to help cross-compile Gnome Text Editor for Windows... but all this seems to be too much of a burden to just start working... And I'm actually a Debian user, so I don't have experience or a working Fedora instance... Is there an alternative way to get packages updated/added within Fedora?
On Wed, Jun 22, 2022 at 12:04 AM Michael Cronenworth <m...@cchtml.com> wrote: > On 6/21/22 2:39 PM, Sim Tov wrote: > > First question is - how far is what I've found from what is needed? Can > it be > > uploaded as is or not? > > Hi Sim, > > No. Fedora compiles its packages from source code. It's a hard > requirement. Other > distros like Arch or Ubuntu are a little more lenient if you are coming > from them. > > The links you provided are to binary (already compiled) packages, but you > could use > their PKGBUILD file as a pointer to translate into a RPM SPEC file. > > Before you continue any further you will need to become a Fedora packager > to import > the packages. This requires a sponsor to approve you to become a packager. > Once > approved you can look for approval of a review request for a new package. > After the > package has been reviewed you can then import it into Fedora, build it, > and push it > out to the Fedora repos. > > See the packager documentation for more information: > > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/package-maintainers/Joining_the_Package_Maintainers/ > > Thanks, > Michael > _______________________________________________ > mingw mailing list -- mingw@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to mingw-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/mingw@lists.fedoraproject.org > Do not reply to spam on the list, report it: > https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure >
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