Fedora packaging workshop
On 17th and 18th this month, we'll have a local Linux conference here. As part of this, I'll give a short introductory workshop on packaging. The following series of posts helps me, to sort things for me and to provide a short reference for others and myself as well.
Prerequisites
In order to package and build packages for Fedora and EPEL, you'll need a few packages installed
- @development-tools
- @fedora-packager
- rpmlint
You'll install those packages via
dnf group install development-tools dnf group install fedora-packager dnf install rpmlint
You'll find several warnings about not to create packages as root user. Take them serious. There's absolutely no reason to build as root user, it's plainly risky and dumb to do so.
To separate your user account from the user building rpms a bit more, add a new user to your system:
useradd makerpm
Finally, your user account should become a member of mock user group.
usermod -a -G mock makerpm
The whole process is documented on Fedora Wiki.