ISO for Packaging

[scoundrel]

Download Building RPMS. It is a 15-page wiki-format, easy-to-import-in-zim, based on the very first documentation we've had (from Gettinther) that I adapted for my own personal notes.

The file includes:

• 01_Introduction.txt
• 02_Setting_up_your_system_to_build_rpms.txt
• 03_Looking_at_SPEC_files.txt
• 04_Spec_file_overview.txt
• 05_Overview_of_build_section.txt
• 06_The_FILE_section.txt
• 07_Compiling_your_first_RPM.txt
• 08_Splitting_the_RPM.txt
• 09_Building_RPM_from_multiple_sources.txt
• 10_Patching_an_RPM.txt
• 11_Creating_a_menu_entry.txt
• 12_Testing_RPMs.txt
• 13_Creating_Meta-Packages.txt
• 14_Official_PCLinuxOS_XDG_Package_Categories.txt
• 15_Legacy_package_categories_(non_XDG_compliant).txt
• notebook.zim

You need to read and understand Pages/Chapters 4, 5 and 6. Of course, any help we can provide is just a post away.

Have fun!

this package zim, brings with it quite a few dependencies .. is that good for the build base ?

[scoundrel]

now having problems with my repo .. looks right..here is what it shows.

URL: file:/home/scoundrel/src/apt/
Distribution: pclinuxos/2010
Section: athlon i586 noarch

can anyone see what the problem is.. the error it gives is that it file not found ??

[Archie]

now having problems with my repo .. looks right..here is what it shows.

URL: file:/home/scoundrel/src/apt/
Distribution: pclinuxos/2010
Section: athlon i586 noarch

can anyone see what the problem is.. the error it gives is that it file not found ??

Before you can use your repo, you need to run the following command:

genbasedir --flat --bz2only --progress /home/scoundrel/src/apt/pclinuxos/2010/

This will create the package lists for your three sections for use with apt-get and Synaptic.

[Neal ManBear]

Each time you add/remove from your local repo you need to run the genbasedir script.     

[Archie]

You should update /home/scoundrel/src/apt/pclinuxos/2010/ to /home/scoundrel/src/apt/pclinuxos/2012/ then make sure the changes are also done in Synaptic.

[scoundrel]

thanks guys.. will do the changes..and update thing..

the dependency's that get installed while building a package.. do the get installed to my root ? hence corrupting my build setup ?

[Archie]

thanks guys.. will do the changes..and update thing..

the dependency's that get installed while building a package.. do the get installed to my root ? hence corrupting my build setup ?

Yes, the packages will be installed on your system. Which is why it is best to keep a log of what packages a BuildRequires would install. After a package is successfully built removing the logged packages will revert your system back to how it was.

I learned this the hard way when my build environment was infested with so much development packages.