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