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* [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/02/28/when-sally-met-eddie-the-fedora-package-story/ When Sally met Eddie] | * [http://www.redhatmagazine.com/2008/02/28/when-sally-met-eddie-the-fedora-package-story/ When Sally met Eddie] | ||
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* [http://docs.fedoraproject.org/developers-guide/ch-rpm-building.html Developer's guide, section on building RPMs] | * [http://docs.fedoraproject.org/developers-guide/ch-rpm-building.html Developer's guide, section on building RPMs] | ||
Revision as of 20:13, 19 June 2008
Creating Package HOWTO
This page describes the mechanics of how to create an RPM package for Fedora, and in particular, how to create a .spec file. It also gives some practical warnings about stuff that will or won't work, which may save you hours of time later.
Introduction
Nearly all Linux distributions can install and uninstall programs as "packages". Fedora, and many other Linux distributions, use the "RPM" format for packages. There are tools that make it easy to create RPM packages; the key is to write a ".spec" file that explains to RPM how to build and install the program.
For more information
This page only discusses the mechanics of creating a package. For more information about packaging, see Package Maintainers page, especially the Packaging Guidelines and How to join the Fedora Package Collection Maintainers (which explains how to become a package maintainer). The Updating Package HOWTO describes how to update an existing package you maintain in Fedora. Packaging/ScriptletSnippets Scriptlet Snippets has some useful examples of scriptlets.
For more information see: