an introduction and a question

[Patrice Dumas]

On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 10:06:53PM -0500, Scott Berry wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> under the BSD license that I would like to get packaged for Fedora.

If you want to become a fedora packager, you should certainly read
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers

> The name of the program is Webmin.  I have spoken to the author and he has
> okayed for me to do this.  I have a question though.  Actually a few of
> them.  I am brand new to packaging so these may sound kind of silly.
> 
> 1.  I tried creating an rpm of Webmin from the newest sources at
> www.webmin.com.

Maybe you could have a look at this submission:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=184080

A quick reading shows that the spec submitted wasn't really up to the
packaging standards in fedora.

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Pat