Description:

I have been working on packaging few python software as a part of my Fedora's Google Summer of Code project

After this talk everyone will be able to understand packaging and can package a standard python software into RPM format

Here is the preview of talk

• Introduction to packaging
  • Why do we need packaging?
  • Why RPM?
  • Alternatives
    • Deb format and others.
    • Universal formats
      • Using Containers
      • Sand box and Shared Libraries
• Packaging
  • Installing the tools required
  • rpmbuild directory structure
  • Sources
  • Spec
    • Macros
    • Naming, Version
    • Licence and source
    • Build Requirements and Requirements
    • Building, Installing, Checking
    • files and changelog
  • SRPM directory
  • BUILD directory
• Package Testing
  • Mock
  • Copr
• Submitting package
  • Fedora
  • Red Hat

Prerequisites:

Familiarity with command line interface and software versioning

Content URLs:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Python https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines https://github.com/fedora-python/pyp2rpm

Speaker Info:

• Security Enthusiast and FREEdom software lover
• Fedora contributor currently doing my Google Summer of Code project at the same
• Mozilla contributor helping to make the web more open
• Active member of FOSS@Amrita profile club's contributions
• Author of few articles at Open Source For You

Speaker Links:

• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Dhanvi
• https://dhanvi.fedorapeople.org
• https://www.dhanvi.org/
• https://github.com/dhanvi