RPM submission procedure

Michael Schwendt ms-nospam-0306 at arcor.de
Wed Jan 7 20:00:51 UTC 2004


On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 14:34:06 -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote:

> Richard June <rjune at bravegnuworld.xxx>:
> > On Wednesday 07 January 2004 10:23, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> > > Is the actual current procedure for submitting an RPM to the
> > > Fedora depository documented anywhere?
> > 
> > Here's a start.
> > 
> > http://www.fedora.us/wiki/PackageSubmissionQAPolicy
> 
> I knew about this; it's part of the reason I asked the question.
> What's there is both out of date and inadequate.
> 
> When I told Mike Johnson that I wanted to streamline the process by
> making it easy to submit RPMs via a script, he said I was aiming at
> the wrong target because that's the old (fedora.us) procedure, not the
> new one.  And I know that document is out of date in at least one
> respect; the "epoch number" is dead.
> 
> Once again, I run 37 projects which I would like to make available in the
> Fedora repository.  I'm trying to develop a way I can ship RPMS, or 
> equivalent metadata from which the Fedora project can build RPMs, 
> automatically every time I do a point release.
> 
> What do I have to do?  And why isn't this documented clearly and completely?
> Don't you want the repository to be well populated?

Official "Fedora Extras" does not exist yet. In other words, you cannot
submit your packages to a repository that doesn't exist.

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