Hi Brendan,

----- "Brendan Jones" brendan.jones.it@gmail.com wrote:

On 10/21/2010 08:10 AM, Severin Gehwolf wrote:

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Hi Fedora Packagers,

<pitch> I would like to bring a new Eclipse plug-in to your attention: Eclipse Fedora Packager[1]

Feedback, testing, bug reports, contributions are very much appreciated. Our Trac instance is here (use your FAS to login): https://fedorahosted.org/eclipse-fedorapackager/

If you have questions, run into problems or would be interested in contributing please let me know:

I wanting to package something new. Is this the right kind of tool or

does it require the package to exist in git? In any case I'll have a crack at it and let you know how I go.

That's great! If you'd like to package software which is not yet in Fedora and you haven't packaged anything for Fedora before, you need to get yourself sponsored and get a Git repository created for you.

Follow instructions here: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/Join

Eclipse Fedora Packager would come into play once the Git repository has been created (Section 2.1.15 onwards - "Check out the module"). I think, Eclipse Fedora Packager would be a great tool if you are new to Fedora Packaging. Instead of following sections 2.1.15-2.1.20 you could use the Eclipse plug-in. It's a substitute for fedpkg (at least for the most part).

As Alex mentioned, since you would be creating an RPM-spec-file from scratch while following the above process, eclipse-rpmstubby would be a great tool to generate some RPM-spec-file templates to build upon for you. More info here: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Linux_Tools_Project/SpecfileEditor/User_Guide#Creati...

Let us know if you have more questions.

Cheers, Severin