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This tutorial is a quick introduction to mandriva package maintaining, intended to be used as the base for a short interactive course by existing packagers mentoring new ones.

Contents 1 Prerequisite checking 2 Mandriva setup 3 Home setup 4 RPM 4.1 perl-IO-Null 4.2 perl-Getopt-Long 5 Build System 5.1 Cooker package manual update 5.2 Cooker package automatic update 5.3 Maintainer database 5.4 QA reports

Prerequisite checking

First questions:

• are you running cooker?
• are you familiar with ssh and ssh agent?
• are you familiar with rpm?
• are you familiar with urpm*?
• are you familiar with subversion?
• are you familiar with rpm building?

Mandriva setup

Given the lack of user account setup automation, and the multiple authentication backends available, a few manual steps are needed in order to initialize account with a single identity:

• register any mail adress to maintainers@mandriva.com ML
• ensure your login@mandriva.org email address redirect to your regular email address
• ensure your bugzilla identity is login@mandriva.org
• my.mandriva.com account
  • ensure your my.mandriva.com identity is login@mandriva.org
  • test same credentials for connecting to wiki (https://wiki.mandriva.com)
  • test same credentials for connection to maintainer database (https://maintainers.mandriva.com)
• cluster access
  • test ssh connection to kenobi
  • test connection from kenobi to the node hosting your home directory
  • test connection to subversion from the node hosting your home directory

See also:

• See Cluster overview
• See Account overview

Home setup

Needed packages installation:

• The package rpm which is our patched version of Red Hat's.
• The package rpm-build which holds scripts used to build packages.
• The package spec-helper which is a tool to minimalize the specfiles by doing automatic things such as stripping the binaries and compressing the man pages.
• The package libtool which is used by some configure scripts to build shared libraries.
• The package rpmlint which is used to check the validity of the generated src.rpm.

Files creation:

• ~/.rpmmacros file
• rpm build tree

   mkdir -p ~/rpm/{BUILD,BUILDROOT,RPMS/{$ARCH,noarch},SOURCES,SRPMS,SPECS,tmp} 

Replace $ARCH with the architecture(s): i586 / x86_64

RPM

perl-IO-Null

http://merlin.mongueurs.net/pub/rpm1/

• study spec file
• create rpm
• create source rpm

perl-Getopt-Long

http://merlin.mongueurs.net/pub/rpm2/

• correct errors
• create rpm

Build System

Cooker package manual update

Working locally

• mdvsys co perl-IO-Null / perl-GetOpt-Long / ncmpc
• cd $1
• svn info
• svn up
• update %mkrel
• bm -l
• rpm -Uvh
• svn di
• svn ci -m 'update mkrel to test'

Working on the cluster

• ssh kenobi.mandriva.com
• mdvsys co perl-IO-Null / perl-GetOpt-Long / ncmpc
• cd $1
• bm -ls SPECS/... ==> error
• bm -ls --nodeps
• OU repsys getsrpm perl-IO-Null
• ssh n1 / celeste
• sudo iurt ./perl-IO-Null-1.01-1mdv2008.0.src.rpm
• $HOME/iurt/...
• logout
• mdvsys submit
• mdvsys submit perl-IO-Null
• checking http://kenobi.mandriva.com/bs/output.php

Cooker package automatic update

• mdvsys update perl-IO-Null
• mdvsys update perl-IO-Null $newver )

Maintainer database

• adopt packages

http://maint.mandriva.com/listpkgs.php?scount=4000&owner=1

• see self packages

http://maint.mandriva.com/listpkgs.php?owner=85

QA reports

Youri demo http://youri.zarb.org/demo/mandriva/

• age: last build > 1 year ago
• missing: discrepancies between source and binaries
• orphans: no maintainer
• rpmcheck: dependency issue
• updates: new version available

http://youri.zarb.org/demo/mandriva/jquelin@mandriva.org/index.html ==> for my own packages use the rss + mdvsys update mdvsys mass-update