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How to request for a package to be added to the Fedora repositories?
I am a co-maintainer of an eyestrain prevention app called SafeEyes.
The app is already available on many distributions, but not in Fedora.
What is the procedure to add a new app to the official ...
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Could not execute mockbuild: Could not download sources
When writing a .spec file for Fedora, I ran into a problem. I can't seem to be able to do fedpkg mockbuild at all. No matter what source I use, HTTPS or local, I keep running into this error:
Failed ...
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I need a package for my version of RHEL/EPEL/CentOS/Fedora, but it's only packaged for other versions of Redhatoids
I'm often in the situation where I backport some fedora-packaged software to CentOS, or forward-port something from an older version of EPEL to Fedora, or vice versa.
How can I do that with the least ...
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What is architecture specific about libtool?
Fedora packages libtool as 64-bits:
# rpm -qi libtool |grep ^Arch
Architecture: x86_64
However, a superficial look at the package contents doesn’t show any obvious
arch specific binaries:
# rpm -ql ...
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how to manage %files section in spec without environment variables
I am creating a package for a software using MPICH. The binaries must be installed on the mpich directory. This directory depends on the mpich version (/usr/lib64/mpich-3.2/ or /usr/lib64/mpich/). For ...
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How are the pkgrel, extraver, snapinfo and minorbump fields of RPM's Release tag used?
The documentation for creating RPM packages in Fedora Linux states that
There are potentially four fields which comprise the structured
Release: tag:
package release number (<pkgrel&...
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Why is the procedure for building RPMs so isolated?
I'm learning how to create RPMs for my own packages. Normally I can do everything while logged into my own account but instructions on making RPMs always seem to want you to use some other account.
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Package depends on mpich, cannot be installed because nothing provides libmpi.so.12
I have some software that uses MPI. I have created an RPM package from that.
The requirements are such that mpich and mpich-devel are included:
BuildRequires: libstdc++-devel autoconf gcc-c++ ...
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How do I fix this spec file: it keeps giving me sed errors yet the only sed is long before the error occurs?
Here is my codelite.spec file. It compiles the sources fine, but then it gives this error (and yes I am including a few extra lines to give context):
Processing files: codelite-10.0-1.fc25.x86_64
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Building RPM for Unix RuneScape Client: nothing provides perl(JSON:backportPP)
I have been building an RPM file for this program and while for the most part this spec file works:
Name: unix-runescape-client
Version: 4.3.5
Release: 1
License: GPL-2.0
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Trying to build (a)kmod package for acpi_call on Fedora, cannot be installed
I want to package a simple kernel module, acpi_call, for Fedora. For this I have followed the kmods2 instructions on RPM Fusion and got the following SPEC file:
# Copyright © 2016 Martin Ueding <...
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RPM Package naming
I am using Fedora's Copr service to build a package with Non Numeric Release according to specifications at Packaging: Naming Guidelines.
Right now there are two successfully built packages:
paper-...
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Installing generic-logos and generic-release on Fedora
The guidelines for Fedora remixes suggest to replaces packages fedora-logos, fedora-release, and fedora-release-notes with the generic-* equivalents when making a remix. Most tutorials online focus on ...
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Creating deb and rpm from the same source
Is there a standard for source packages to be able to build rpms, debs (and perhaps others) without too much customization?
I'm talking mostly about Python, PyQt programs.
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How to add packages onto a Fedora live USB
I want to create Fedora 14 live CD with additional packages. How to do it?
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