Hello Fedora Devs, Over the last few weeks, I spent a lot of time review and amending the Ingres (a highly scalable, full-featured open source RDBMS) building and packaging process with the intention of submitting it for inclusion in the Fedora distribution. We've had binary RPM support for a while but was far from being LSB compliant and violated other packaging standards. The focus of the work has largely been based on information found at: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:ReviewGuidelines & http://proton.pathname.com/fhs/ and I am now at a point where I can build 3 binary RPMs (ingres-client, ingres-server, ingres-devel) which comply with the above guidelines and which cause rpmlint to return very few errors. However, one major thing that is still missing is the ability to build an SRPM for the source tree and crafting an SPEC file for this is the next thing on my task list. As I think this will be a fairly substantial undertaking and something I'm not very familiar with, I'm keen to get some advice and guidance with the project in the hopes of getting things done right (or at least more right) the first time. Also, there are a few issues that have arisen from building the binary RPMs that I would like to get clarification (i.e. how much of a problem are they) on before starting on the SRPM spec: * Ingres requires that the server executable is setuid (non-root) * Current build process uses $ORIGIN for relative RPATH linking. * Executable stack code If the best approach is "write the spec, follow the guidelines, create a Bugzilla issue and we'll go from there", then that is what I will do. If I can gain experience by assisting in with the packaging of other software for fedora then I'm happy to do this too. If this is the wrong list for this posting, apologies and please direct me to the appropriate forum. Thanks in advance, Jay Hankinson Senior Developer Ingres Emerging Technologies Team -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
