[Mageia-dev] A question about BuildRequires and other RPM questions.

Fri Mar 8 12:33:18 CET 2013

On 08/03/13 11:18, Robert Wood wrote:
+> Even as a programmer/electronics engineer (admittedly down at an
+> embedded level most of the time) some of this is going so far over my
+> head, it's a vapour trail in the sky.
+> 
+> There are far too many acronyms of stuff I've not come across, for me to
+> even get the vaguest grasp of what's been talked about.
+> 
+> I'm not sure what the answer is really, I thought maybe a you tube
+> tutorial might be a good idea, but even then, how do you know what level
+> to talk down to.
+> 
+> No idea, for example. what iurt, mock are or do; how to make a minimal
+> install and keep making the system go back to minimal install when
+> creating the next RPM; what a btrfs subvolume is and other things.
+> 
+> I still don't get this whole trial and error thing. It seems that you
+> might submit something to the repositories that someone finds doesn't
+> install because of a missing dependency and you redo it. Then you can
+> retry that for up to five goes before it finally works? That seems
+> crazy. I must have misunderstood.
+> 
+> I have no problem learning stuff, I do it every single day in my work
+> and it's what makes it so enjoyable, but maybe I need to take smaller
+> steps first? No idea where to start or how to go about doing that
+> though. As I might not have any work in a week's time it would
+> potentially be an ideal time to learn, but maybe I'm just not the right
+> person to do this?
+
+
+There is a great mentoring programme Robert and we're always short of
+packagers. Have a read here and find yourself a mentor:
+https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager
+
+Claire
+