From Mageia wiki
This page describes the packaging seminars that are run on IRC for packager apprentices.
Packaging Seminar 1
Prerequisite: a running Mageia system (current stable or cauldron) Length: ~1h
- Introduction
- rebuilding a package using rpmbuild/bm: Packagers RPM tutorial
- changing a spec file: RPM Spec file policy
- simple dependencies howto
- using rpmlint
- mgarepo checkout, rpm configuration: Packagers Howto start
- following Mageia policies
- Mageia team organisation
The video of the live cast of one of those seminars can be found on Youtube.
Packaging Seminar 2
Length: ~1h
- Mageia technical organisation
- using mgarepo as a packager
- patches howto
- updates to stable how-to
- advanced rpm (epoch, arch, conflict, obsolete)
- rpm pre/post/... scripts
- maintainer tricks