From Mandriva

Everything you need to know about packaging

This page is the entry point for all informations related to packages creation and management. If you have additional content to add, please try to keep it balanced, and link it under a suitable section below.

Contents 1 Guides 2 Resources 3 Subsystems 3.1 Init scripts 3.2 Menus 3.3 Alternatives 4 Policies 5 Tools 6 Reports. 7 Problems 8 Others

Guides

• Submitter guide, for peoples submitting packages for inclusion
• Maintainer guide, for people maintaining Mandriva packages

Resources

• Groups list
• Licenses list
• Red Hat's rpm-list: send a mail to [email protected] with subscribe in the subject line.

Subsystems

Init scripts

• Working with initscripts

Menus

• Migrating menus to XDG format
• XDG Menu System

Alternatives

• Alternatives Policy

Policies

All Mandriva policies are specifically noted on the Policies page. Most part of the Mandriva packaging policy is found in the RPM Howto and in the Advanced RPM Howto. There are also some additional topics covered in additional pages. General policies apply to any packages, whereas specific policies only apply to specific package categories.

Tools

• Packaging Tools
• rpmlint

Reports.

• Packaging Reports

Problems

• Packaging Problems

Others

• RPM Howto
• Advanced RPM Howto
• Packaging an application in an LSB compliant manner
• Implementing Build Policies with Spec-Helper
• Arch Synchronization Level
• Building DKMS binary packages