On Jul 28, 2014, at 16:18, Derek Pressnall dere...@needcaffeine.net wrote:
I have a question about contributing a package to Fedora. Is it common for
the author of an open source package to act as package maintainer? Or is it
better to have someone else be the package maintainer
Why? Rsnapshot and AMANDA are already available, stable, and quite robust.
They seem to cover just the niches you're aiming at, and the performance and
security ramifications have already been worked out. Plus, neither requires
an SQL database, which makes them much more robust.
It's
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 09:27:12PM -0500, Derek Pressnall wrote:
The Fedora packaging process can be a bit tricky the first time
around; I'd recommend locating a member of the Fedora Sponsors who is
interested in helping you with your first package and showing you the
ropes.
Ok, where
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 08:30:10AM +0200, Matthias Runge wrote:
Ok, where do I find a Sponsor? on this list, or is there another
one? Or
is that the whole part where I have to submit the package, open up a bug
report, and reference that here? (I think that's what I got out of the
docs last
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 1:30 AM, Matthias Runge mru...@matthias-runge.de
wrote:
A few remarks about your spec given at [2]:
- Source0 should be a valid URL (if possible)
- in files section, you should use %{_bindir} instead of /usr/bin
- the same applies to your install section
- and of
Hi
On Tue, Jul 29, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Derek Pressnall wrote:
For the Source0 URL, since this project is hosted on Github, the URL that
leads to the tar.gz file doesn't contain the tar file name (it is
https://github.com/derekp7/snebu/tarball/master;, which ends up creating
the tar.gz file
On 29/07/14 15:45, Derek Pressnall wrote:
For the Source0 URL, since this project is hosted on Github, the URL
that leads to the tar.gz file doesn't contain the tar file name (it is
https://github.com/derekp7/snebu/tarball/master;, which ends up
creating the tar.gz file name on the fly through
I have a question about contributing a package to Fedora. Is it common for
the author of an open source package to act as package maintainer? Or is
it better to have someone else be the package maintainer (who is more
experienced with the Fedora build processes)? I'm the author of a backup
On Mon, 28 Jul 2014 15:18:04 -0500
Derek Pressnall dere...@needcaffeine.net wrote:
I have a question about contributing a package to Fedora. Is it
common for the author of an open source package to act as package
maintainer? Or is it better to have someone else be the package
maintainer
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On 07/28/2014 04:18 PM, Derek Pressnall wrote:
I have a question about contributing a package to Fedora. Is it
common for the author of an open source package to act as package
maintainer? Or is it better to have someone else be the package
On Mon, Jul 28, 2014 at 7:57 PM, Stephen Gallagher sgall...@redhat.com
wrote:
The Fedora packaging process can be a bit tricky the first time
around; I'd recommend locating a member of the Fedora Sponsors who is
interested in helping you with your first package and showing you the
ropes.
Hi Derek, you can view a detailed list of the available sponsors in
our Fedora accounts system, looking for the packager group and after
clicking in sponsors (there are some filters, administrators,
sponsors, users), then choose someone and send an email to him or
her.
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