[Mageia-dev] Need mentor(s) to become a Mageia packager

Fri Jul 22 08:24:56 CEST 2011

On 21 July 2011 22:14, Vincent <vincent.hervieux at gmail.com> wrote:
+> Hi All,
+>
+> I am still trying to pack ZoneMinder for Cauldron.
+> Now rpms are generated and rpmlint is not complaining, but I am still
+> sure, it's not OK :) , that's why I need help.
+> Attached is the spec file, if somebody could have a look.
+>
+> Here are my questions:
+> - where should go the installed files? (Zoneminder provides perl
+> modules, the site itself, CGI services , doc and conf).
+> - some files have no path's variable:
+> /usr/share/man/lib/perl5/5.14.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/perllocal.pod.xz
+> /usr/local/share/man/man3/ZoneMinder.3pm
+> ...
+> Any idea, what it should be?
+> - what should be the permissions for the site under the apache server?
+> - should the %install section creates the database table/permissions
+> for ZoneMinder? If so, is there any example how to achieve this?
+> - should the %install section creates the service launcher scripts? If
+> so, is there any example how to achieve this?
+>
+> Thanks in advance for you help!
+>
+> Vincent
+>
+>
+
+FWIW, Fedora has a zoneminder package
+http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=zoneminder.git
+
+They've had it for a long time, so you should find loads of clues over there.
+
+-- 
+Ahmad Samir
+