On 09/04/2013 12:03 AM, Dave Johansen wrote: > On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 7:56 PM, Mark LaPierre <marklapier at aol.com> wrote: >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hey All, >> >> Is there someone here on the list that has experience building RPM >> install files? I've never done it before. I'm looking for someone >> who is willing to do a little hand holding. >> >> I just built Musescore from source. I hope to build an install RPM >> from the resulting files. > > I just went through the process of learning how to package .rpms > myself, and the short version is that you need to write a "spec file" > that goes in the source rpm along with the source tarball. The spec > file is basically the list of instructions that define what's > required, how to build it, and how to package it into a rpm. > > As far as getting things setup to build from a .spec file, this is the > best source that I found: > http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SetupRpmBuildEnvironment > > There's an overview/walk through of a spec files can be found at: > http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ch-rpm-inside.html > > Those two sources with a little googling, inspection of existing spec > files, and a few mailing list posts got me up to speed pretty quickly. > > Dave > > Also, the Fedora project has some great docs on packaging: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora_Draft_Documentation/0.1/html/RPM_Guide/ -- _____________________ Phil Gardner PGP Key ID 0xFECC890C OTR Fingerprint 6707E9B8 BD6062D3 5010FE8B 36D614E3 D2F80538