RPM Packaging Workshop

Yesterday we held a workshop for RPM Packaging basic, almost 15 students took part in workshop. I started with how we can install a source without make a package and told the details of configure,make and make install. I selected the most famous GNU package hello for packaging, discuss about tools which we use for make a package and then explained about rpmdev-setuptree and all directories created under rpmbuild directory. Then we started to make the spec file for hello source, explain about build requirement and Requirement, uses of macro, find the suitable group, use of each section(description, prep, build, install, post, clean, files,change log). During compile spec file so many student got error so we checked their spec files and find out the reason (mostly due to typo). This workshop went around 3 hour in IT-Dept Lab. I hope everyone enjoyed the session and cleared all the doubts.

Material :

Fedora Packaging Guide Line http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines

Rpmbuild tutorial http://rpmbuildtut.wordpress.com/

Shakthi Kannan's packaging-red-hot-paneer-butter-masala slides.

Thanks to Navin Agrawal , Pranay Agrawal for volunteering and all the students for their interest.

Here is some shots of workshop