[Mageia-dev] So, you want to become a mageia packager

Sun Feb 20 23:49:24 CET 2011

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