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+ <B>genomega</B>
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+ <I>Mon Feb 21 01:06:25 CET 2011</I>
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+-----Original Message-----
+&gt;<i>From: Pierre Chaland &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">pierre.chaland at tsf47.net</A>&gt;
+</I>&gt;<i>Sent: Feb 20, 2011 4:49 PM
+</I>&gt;<i>To: Mageia development mailing-list &lt;<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">mageia-dev at mageia.org</A>&gt;
+</I>&gt;<i>Subject: Re: [Mageia-dev] So, you want to become a mageia packager
+</I>&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;<i>Le samedi 19 f&#233;vrier 2011 21:18:48 Remy CLOUARD, vous avez &#233;crit :
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Hi there,
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> As the title says so, this mail is intended to all people who would like
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> to become a packager, but who don&#8217;t know where to look, what&#8217;s the path,
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> what to do.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> As you may or may not know, mentoring started a few weeks ago, with some
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> people who are already quite experienced in packaging.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> These people are making progress quite quickly, and will soon be able to
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> be full-fledged packagers. Now, many of you would like to do that too.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> So how to get started ?
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> -----------------------
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Well, there are several things you can already do.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> First, I suggest you to join #mageia-mentoring so that you can ask any
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> question you&#8217;d like to people who are already packagers. Don&#8217;t hesitate
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> to ask anything, there&#8217;s no stupid question. If you don&#8217;t get an
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> immediate answer, don&#8217;t hesitate to ping us
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> It would also be great that other mentors join the channel as well, so
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> that we can answer people. At the moment ahmad, mikala, anssi, Nanar and
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I are on the channel.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I know nothing about packaging, could you give me a pointer ?
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> -------------------------------------------------------------
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> There&#8217;s a documentation that tries to summarize how to do a rpm on this
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> page:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> <A HREF="http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=rpm_start">http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=rpm_start</A>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Don&#8217;t be afraid by the size of the page, take your time to read it.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> We would appreciate some feedbacks about this documentation. Tell us if
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> some things are not clear, so that we can rephrase it, so that we can
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> explain it to you.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> It&#8217;s not that hard really, and I suggest you to take a look at an
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> existing spec to see how it&#8217;s done.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> At the moment, many packages have been imported, but many packages are
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> also waiting for someone to maintain it. You can have a list of
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> unmaintained packages here:
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> <A HREF="http://maint.mandriva.com/listpkgs.php?owner=1">http://maint.mandriva.com/listpkgs.php?owner=1</A>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Beware, check first that the package is not deprecated, unmaintained
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> upstream, and start with a small one, not very difficult, like a small
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> console app or a game. Again, if some bits are difficult to understand,
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> please tell us :-)
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I already know some bits of packaging, would like to package for mageia,
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> what can I do ?
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Packaging policies represent a good amount of doc that might be
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> difficult to learn. You don&#8217;t have to know them by heart at first, just
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> to know that they exist, and that you should refer to them when you are
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> trying to do. For instance, if you&#8217;re interested in python packages, you
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> don&#8217;t have to know the perl packaging policy, but you should know that
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> they exist and refer to it if you have a perl dependency to your
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> package.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Package policies are listed in this page :
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> <A HREF="http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=policies-review">http://mageia.org/wiki/doku.php?id=policies-review</A>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> You might also have a look at the aforementionned rpm start page in case
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> of doubt, and ask packagers when you don&#8217;t know.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Come on #mageia-mentoring, so that you can get in touch with a mentor,
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> and if he becomes available, you will be able to start with the various
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> tools we use to build packages.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> I do hope that this mail gives you a path to start with, please tell me
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> if I am missing something, and again don&#8217;t be discouraged by the amount
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> of documentation you will read.
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i>
+</I>&gt;&gt;<i> Regards,
+</I>&gt;<i>I try to did what was writen in <A HREF="http://mageia.org/wiki/doku?id=rpm_start">http://mageia.org/wiki/doku?id=rpm_start</A>
+</I>&gt;<i>With urpmi I can load ktron rpm.
+</I>&gt;<i>But if I want to build this same package it cannot find the file.See below.
+</I>&gt;<i>[<A HREF="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-dev">pierre at sonypierre</A> rpm]$
+</I>&gt;<i> rpm -i/cauldron/SRPMS/core/ktron-4.5.95-1.mga1.src.rpm
+</I>&gt;<i>erreur: &#233;chec de l'ouverture de
+</I>&gt;<i>/cauldron/SRPMS/core/ktron-4.5.95-1.mga1.src.rpm: Aucun fichier ou dossier de
+</I>&gt;<i>ce type
+</I>
+Unless it was broken out it is probably bundled with kde games.
+
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