Archive talk:BuildingPackagesGuide

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Thoughts:

• Add 'rpmlint' checks ?

• Add where you can find 'valid' licenses and groups ?

• Suggest that if it has an Obsoletes: tag, it should also have a Provides: tag to match ?

• These are good items to reference:

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/NamingGuidelines

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/ScriptletSnippets

• Show an example where a user/group is created on install, checked on upgrade, and removed on uninstall ?

• Show how to gpg sign the package after it's been created ?

• Show how to clean up after building a package - rpmdev-rmdevelrpms ?

• Demonstrate the use of %ghost ?