[Mageia-dev] Need mentor(s) to become a Mageia packager

[Ahmad Samir]

On 21 July 2011 22:14, Vincent <vincent.hervieux at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I am still trying to pack ZoneMinder for Cauldron.
> Now rpms are generated and rpmlint is not complaining, but I am still
> sure, it's not OK :) , that's why I need help.
> Attached is the spec file, if somebody could have a look.
>
> Here are my questions:
> - where should go the installed files? (Zoneminder provides perl
> modules, the site itself, CGI services , doc and conf).
> - some files have no path's variable:
> /usr/share/man/lib/perl5/5.14.1/x86_64-linux-thread-multi/perllocal.pod.xz
> /usr/local/share/man/man3/ZoneMinder.3pm
> ...
> Any idea, what it should be?
> - what should be the permissions for the site under the apache server?
> - should the %install section creates the database table/permissions
> for ZoneMinder? If so, is there any example how to achieve this?
> - should the %install section creates the service launcher scripts? If
> so, is there any example how to achieve this?
>
> Thanks in advance for you help!
>
> Vincent
>
>

FWIW, Fedora has a zoneminder package
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/gitweb/?p=zoneminder.git

They've had it for a long time, so you should find loads of clues over there.

-- 
Ahmad Samir