Changes between Version 7 and Version 8 of RpmHowToPackagers

Timestamp:

Sep 10, 2010, 12:44:10 AM (14 years ago)

Author:

Yuri Dario

Comment:

More packager information's

RpmHowToPackagers

@@ -26 +26 @@
 
 == Prepare source code ==
-This is done in the ''%prep'' section. Here the ''%setup'' macro will expand your source package (the one in the ''Source:'' line) and write the files by default in the %HOME%\rpmbuild\BUILD\{name}-
-{version} directory. You can change this with ''-n'' parameter for %setup macro.
+This is done in the ''%prep'' section. Here the ''%setup'' macro will expand your source package (the one in the ''Source:'' line) and write the files by default in the %HOME%\rpmbuild\BUILD\{name}-{version} directory. You can change this with ''-n'' parameter for %setup macro.
 
 If you need to extract more source files, use the ''-a'' parameter.
@@ -40 +39 @@
 %patch001 -p1 -b .base
 }}}
+Note that rpmbuild defaults expectes to find source tarball and patches in the SOURCES directory.
 
 == Build source code ==
@@ -102 +102 @@
 
 All output files will be written in the %HOME%\rpmbuild tree, regardless of current directory and drive.
+
+== OS/2 specific notes ==
+While the syntax of .spec files is the same used under Unix, not everything is currently working in the OS/2 port. Also many packages are already built and manually installed: this means RPM is not aware of their presence.
+
+Many Unix .spec files have a (or multiple) ''BuildRequire:'' rules: if the package is not already built with RPM, the line should be commented until the required package will have a RPM install. The same applies to ''Requires:'' rules.
+
+Another missing feature is the automatic detection of required DLLs or packages: Unix rpm does this analyzing the ELF binaries and adding the required DLLs on the fly; the same is done for python or perl scripts, the required abi level is added by parsing scripts and querying python/perl modules.[[BR]]
+Under OS/2 these requirements must be manually added using a ''BuildRequires'' or ''Requires'' rule.
+Example:
+{{{
+Requires: python
+Requires: python(abi) = 2.6
+}}}
+