> Should that tutorial work? Is it perhaps obsolete? I'd say the opposite of obsolete - it's been updated to suggest using fedpkg all along the way, instead of the old rpmbuild tools. But it looks like it wasn't tested enough to make sure everything works. > My newbie understanding is that fedpkg should get the source from the > Source0 location and then follow the build instructions. > Is that even close? This is a bit complicated. When the package is being built, the list of files is taken from the Source: tags in the spec file. However, fedpkg keeps a separate file, "sources" (no extension), where it lists files uploaded to the Fedora build cache. The justification is that keeping source tarballs in the repository is a bad idea, since these files can be really large (1GiB+ for game packages), so they're stored in a cache instead, and the repository contains only this "sources" file with references to said cache. (That being said, you totally can store source files in the repo - this is often done with stuff like non-standard Fedora configs.) As for the "get the source from the Source0 location" bit - no. fedpkg will not download stuff from Source: tags for you, only the files listed in the "sources" file. Since my impression is that you want to start experimenting with RPM packaging in general, and not specifically fedpkg - I'll do a bit shameless self-promotion and link to an article on RPM packaging that I wrote some time ago: https://blog.svgames.pl/article/basics-of-rpm-packaging In this article, I show how to build RPM packages using the traditional rpmbuild workflow. If you're just starting out with writing specs and such, it should get you started enough to make switching to fedpkg later down the road a no-brainer. A.FI. _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Do not reply to spam, report it: https://pagure.io/fedora-infrastructure/new_issue
