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<H1>[Mageia-dev] A question about BuildRequires and other RPM questions.</H1>
<B>Claire Robinson</B>
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<I>Fri Mar 8 12:33:18 CET 2013</I>
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<PRE>On 08/03/13 11:18, Robert Wood wrote:
><i> Even as a programmer/electronics engineer (admittedly down at an
</I>><i> embedded level most of the time) some of this is going so far over my
</I>><i> head, it's a vapour trail in the sky.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> There are far too many acronyms of stuff I've not come across, for me to
</I>><i> even get the vaguest grasp of what's been talked about.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I'm not sure what the answer is really, I thought maybe a you tube
</I>><i> tutorial might be a good idea, but even then, how do you know what level
</I>><i> to talk down to.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> No idea, for example. what iurt, mock are or do; how to make a minimal
</I>><i> install and keep making the system go back to minimal install when
</I>><i> creating the next RPM; what a btrfs subvolume is and other things.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I still don't get this whole trial and error thing. It seems that you
</I>><i> might submit something to the repositories that someone finds doesn't
</I>><i> install because of a missing dependency and you redo it. Then you can
</I>><i> retry that for up to five goes before it finally works? That seems
</I>><i> crazy. I must have misunderstood.
</I>><i>
</I>><i> I have no problem learning stuff, I do it every single day in my work
</I>><i> and it's what makes it so enjoyable, but maybe I need to take smaller
</I>><i> steps first? No idea where to start or how to go about doing that
</I>><i> though. As I might not have any work in a week's time it would
</I>><i> potentially be an ideal time to learn, but maybe I'm just not the right
</I>><i> person to do this?
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There is a great mentoring programme Robert and we're always short of
packagers. Have a read here and find yourself a mentor:
<A HREF="https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager">https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager</A>
Claire
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