Re: [Xlog-discussion] Appology

[Karl F. Larsen]

Hi Ben, thanks and I too did a search and found that page. I am trying 
to find out what a spec sheet reallly is. I have Maximon RPM the book 
and it's in there.

Ben Coleman wrote:

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> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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> >   To that end I will go to the Red Hat web page and see if I can learn
> > what it takes to offer an RPM to yum.
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> I went looking, too, and the description of becoming a Fedora Extras
> contributor is at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Extras/Contributors
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> - From what I see there, you don't offer an RPM to Fedora extras.  You offer an
> SRPM (Source RPM) and a spec file (which defines how to build an RPM from the
> SRPM).  The naming of the files and the contents of the spec file have to
> conform to Fedora conventions.  Someone has to review them to make sure you've
> correctly conformed to those conventions, approve your submission, and sponsor
> you.  Once sponsored, you get access to Fedora's cvs repository, and are able
> to cause RPMs for the package to be built within the Fedora Extras build system.
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   Yes every time you make a RPM you also make a SRPM which is just a 
wrapper around the tar ball the author wrote and you made the RPM from. 
It will be educational to learn what the person you must pass through is 
looking for.

> I can see why OH2BNS mentioned not only the skills necessary for this, but
> also the time.
>
> If this seems like a bit much, you might want to go with OH2BNS's suggestion
> and try to hunt up whoever maintains the hamlib packages in Fedora Extras and
> see if they're willing to handle gmfsk and xlog also.
>
>  
   Well Tomi will look for him and he might well find him. But then he 
could be you or me who just took the time because we percieved a need. 
Tomi made it child's play to make a RPM and if I can figure out the spec 
sheet part it might be the simple to apply to Fedora and see what happens.

   I got Fedora Core 5 downloaded and used it to upgrade my laptop. It 
worked fine and didn't loose anything it appears. I will do a compile 
and see if that still works :-)

> Ben
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