Testing in Mock and Koji

Mock

When testing there was only one error that kept on reoccurring indicating that SDL packages were missing from the spec file( which is BuildRequires). I had to query the first installed SDL packages to find out what was needed. In the end I had to list eight SDL packages so it could run in mock.

Oh! I had to run the command rpmbuild -bs every time a change was made to the original spec file. This was fun!

Below is the final output of the successful run.





Koji

Finally. I do not know what the problem was, but it worked. Using the commands below and Using the Koji Buid system from Fedora

- yum install fedora-packager
- /usr/bin/fedora-packager-setup

I got an error indicating that I needed a Certificate. I downloaded that certificate and the second command again. There was success.

Building the package with koji was easy to my surprise. I didn't get any errors. The command below did it

koji build --scratch dist-f10 xye-0.9.1-1.fc10.src.rpm

The got the lovely words I like to see completed successfully.

Creating RPM packages

I created the rpm package for the package xye-0.9.1.tar.gz from http://sourceforge.net. Xye is an abstract puzzle game.

The packages rpm-build, rpmdevtools and rpmlint were installed. After installing the packages the command rpmdev-setuptree was executed to setup the RPM tree. I then proceeded with creating the RPM package.

yumdownloader --source xye [was executed to download the package.]
This package was then copied to ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES where the command rpmdev-newspec xye.0.9.1.tar.gz was executed to create the spec file. The newly created spec file was then copied to ~/rpmbuild/SPECS and renamed xye.spec.

Changes and lines were added to the spec file and then the command rmbuild -ba xye.spec was executed. There was success the binary files were created. The command rpmlint was executed on the following files in the directories ~/rpmbuild/SRPMS and ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386 with no errors.

Below is a link to the spec file