User:Quaid/Packaging How-to (draft)

There is a lot of information scattered across this wiki that teaches how to do packaging. This page is an attempt at pulling together links to all of that content, organized in a useful manner. A step-by-step overview is included to guide a new packager through the process.

Draft status

 * Overview step-by-step - NEEDED
 * Background "Big Picture" - IN PROGRESS
 * Spec file how to - IN PROGRESS
 * Organized Packaging pages links:
 * Language specific
 * Tutorials, tips, and how-tos

The big picture
This content is must-read or highly useful relevant to packaging.


 * PackagingGuidelines -- the big guide
 * Packaging/FrequentlyMadeMistakes
 * Special:Prefixindex/Packaging -- every page with the word Packaging in the title

Spec file how-to
The content in this section is from a presentation by Tom 'Spot' Callaway, last updated from the Red Hat Summit 2008.

Perl

 * PackagingTips/Perl

Python

 * Packaging:Python
 * Packaging:Python Eggs

PHP

 * Packaging:PHP

Java

 * Packaging:Java

Other

 * Packaging:OCaml
 * Packaging:Mono