Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-factory (549 mails)

[Dave Plater <davejplater@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 11/25/2009 10:01 AM, Dominique Leuenberger wrote:
> Hi,
>
>   
> > > > On 11/25/2009 at 6:45, "Rajko M." <rmatov101@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: 
> > > >         
> > The web page is 7 screens long, and requires as prerequisite another few 
> > books 
> > reading, learning development tools, openSUSE packaging guidelines, probably 
> >
> > one or 2 programing languages in order to fix programs that behave, in other 
> >
> > words whole semester or more of fun, full time. 
> >
> > Packaging is for a long time expert field.
> >     
> I always say: if you can do ./configure; make; make install, then you can 
> easily package it. This is of course the easiest type of package and is
> certainly not working with everything you can find upstream. But god knows, 
> I've been doing some packages by know and this very often DOES work.
>
> I also wrote an article about such a package:
> http://dominique.leuenberger.net/blog/?p=5 (shameless publicity, I know.. but 
> so be it).
>
> Just remember: a spec file is a shell script. So writing simple scripts can 
> help. but if the 'normal' configure ; make works, there is not much to
> script.
>
> Give it a try!
>
> Dominique
>   
I must add that the build service has a wizard that creates an initial
spec file that I've used to create a spec file from scratch for
rosegarden-qt4. So all you have to do to get started is register a build
service account and with the help of the osc man page and maybe ask a
bit on the build service list, download the source package, create a
package in your home project then upload the source package and use the
wizard to create your spec file and chances are you will end up with a
built package.
Regards
Dave P
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