I'd be open to any advice how we can make our build system work a bit better. I was not able to find any examples of RPM spec files for NWJS based applications in which there really isn't anything to compile but rather just pulling in the artifacts from the NWJS-Phoenix-Builder and telling RPM where everything should live on the user system.

If there are any sponsors interested, particularly anyone that has the time to help us with the build system and produce all the needed packages that would be needed by Fedora and downstream systems.

On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 11:10 AM Matthew Chambers <nr0q@gridtracker.org> wrote:

Hi

I'm new to this email group and am wanting to look at including a ham
radio software program that our team is working on in future versions of
Fedora (and eventually other RHEL based distros).

Welcome!

 

What I'm not finding easily is what the actual requirements to have
software included in the Fedora repos?

https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/packaging-guidelines/  and links there are a great place to get started.  If you've not packaged anything before, you'll need to follow the process and obtain a sponsor as well.

 

The program in question is GridTracker (licensed under the BSD 3-Clause
license) with source code and RPM files available.

The spec files in the upstream will need a bit of cleanup work to meet the packaging guidelines reference in the link above.. The Makefile for installation is pretty light so the spec file is having to do a good bit more than typical 'make install'.

Thanks,

Matt