[Mageia-dev] A question about BuildRequires and other RPM questions.

[Claire Robinson]

On 08/03/13 11:18, Robert Wood wrote:
> Even as a programmer/electronics engineer (admittedly down at an
> embedded level most of the time) some of this is going so far over my
> head, it's a vapour trail in the sky.
> 
> There are far too many acronyms of stuff I've not come across, for me to
> even get the vaguest grasp of what's been talked about.
> 
> I'm not sure what the answer is really, I thought maybe a you tube
> tutorial might be a good idea, but even then, how do you know what level
> to talk down to.
> 
> No idea, for example. what iurt, mock are or do; how to make a minimal
> install and keep making the system go back to minimal install when
> creating the next RPM; what a btrfs subvolume is and other things.
> 
> I still don't get this whole trial and error thing. It seems that you
> might submit something to the repositories that someone finds doesn't
> install because of a missing dependency and you redo it. Then you can
> retry that for up to five goes before it finally works? That seems
> crazy. I must have misunderstood.
> 
> I have no problem learning stuff, I do it every single day in my work
> and it's what makes it so enjoyable, but maybe I need to take smaller
> steps first? No idea where to start or how to go about doing that
> though. As I might not have any work in a week's time it would
> potentially be an ideal time to learn, but maybe I'm just not the right
> person to do this?


There is a great mentoring programme Robert and we're always short of
packagers. Have a read here and find yourself a mentor:
https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager

Claire