Hi Gavin,
(If this message is inappropriate for this list - I apologies, and please let me know this.)
It's not inappropriate, but most list members have no experience with packaging software for a Linux distribution, or even know about how software is normally maintained in the open-source community, what separates an author from a maintainer etc. Do you have a pointer to a short introduction into this? Until now, we (the authors) did all the end-user releases for various platforms on our own, so this is new land for most of us.
Thank you for taking this on!
- Bert -
My name is Gavin Romig-Koch, I've been working on creating Squeak and EToys RPMs that are (hopefully will be) usable and acceptable to both the Fedora and OLPC distributions. I have posted my first draft of these packages and would appreciate a review by anyone who is interested in such things.
http://code.google.com/p/squeak-fedora/
This consists of .spec files, .patch files, and a Makefile to download upstream "sources" and build packages from them. There is also a TODO file listing the things I think/know need to work on before these are ready for Fedora or OLPC.
If you find issues contact me.
-gavin...