awesome-package-maintainer

How to become a packager
https://github.com/jubalh/awesome-package-maintainer

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quilt
- Example
More tools
- Example
  - notes
  - What is That Process Doing?
ltrace
- Extensions
ldd and libtree
- Using ltrace to trace both userspace library calls, syscalls, and collect stack traces
Arch Linux
- Using ltrace to trace both userspace library calls, syscalls, and collect stack traces
What are packages?
- RPM Packaging Tutorial - based distribution this will serve as a good introduction.
- RPM Packaging Tutorial - based distribution this will serve as a good introduction.
Staying up to date
- watch file
- nvchecker
- maintainer.opensuse.org
- urlwatch
- fresh code
- newreleases
- release monitoring
- repology
- newsboat - u ~/watchedprojects.rss`.
Bugs
- Gentoo
- Arch Linux
- openSUSE
- Bugzilla
- Fedora
- Ubuntu
- GitHub
- NixOS
- GitLab
- Alpine
- Homebrew
Updates
- openQA
- openQA
wiggle
- Misc
  - wiggle - wise diffs.
meld
- Example
  - Meld
  - openSUSE OBS
Security
- MITRE
- Heartbleed - 2014-0160](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2014-0160) assigned.
grep, ack, ag, rg
- Example
  - grep
  - ack
  - ag
  - ripgrep
  - comparison
magic-trace
- Example
Coredump
- Linux core dump analysis
- Debug a crash after it happened – without knowing about it upfront
- Per service ulimits
- Arch Linux Wiki on Coredumps
- Using systemd-coredump to debug application crashes - SP3/html/SLES-all/book-tuning.html) guide which describes how to use [systemd-coredump](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd-coredump.html) and [coredumbctl](https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/coredumpctl.html).
- coredumper - - without terminating.
- How to get a core dump for a segfault on Linux
Reproducibility
- Reproducible builds
Debuginfod
- Debian
- Debuginfod - code from servers to clients such as debuggers across HTTP.
gdb
- Example
  - seer
  - How does gdb work?
- Extensions
  - gef - engineers when using old school GDB. It provides additional features to GDB using the Python API to assist during the process of dynamic analysis and exploit development. Application developers will also benefit from it, as GEF lifts a great part of regular GDB obscurity, avoiding repeating traditional commands, or bringing out the relevant information from the debugging runtime.
lsof
- Using ltrace to trace both userspace library calls, syscalls, and collect stack traces
  - lsof
  - lsof Tutorial
strace
- Using ltrace to trace both userspace library calls, syscalls, and collect stack traces
ftrace
- Using ltrace to trace both userspace library calls, syscalls, and collect stack traces
  - ftrace
  - ftrace: trace your kernel functions!
readelf and objdump
- Using ltrace to trace both userspace library calls, syscalls, and collect stack traces
  - release-notes-scraper - grab the release notes for projects from GitHub that do not keep a CHANGELOG, but publish their release notes via the releases page.
  - changesgen
  - autoup
  - mgornys Gentoo dev scripts
Buildroot
- Using ltrace to trace both userspace library calls, syscalls, and collect stack traces
  - Contribute
Debian
- Quickstart
Fedora
- Quickstart
  - Packaging Tutorial: GNU Hello
  - RPM Packaging Guide - about the basics of RPM packaging
  - Fedora Packaging Guidelines
  - mock - a simple chroot build environment manager for building RPMs.
  - koji - Fedoras build system.
  - copr - buildsystem that allows contributors to create packages, put them in repositories, and make it easy for users to install the packages onto their system.
  - pagure - code hosting.
Gentoo
- Quickstart
  - Gentoo devmanual
  - Proxied Maintainer FAQ
  - Contribute via Pull Requests
  - portage with git
  - pkgdev
  - pkgcheck
  - equery
  - portageq
  - iwdevtools - tools to aid with Gentoo development, primarily intended for QA
  - ebump - ebuild revision bumper
  - sam-gentoo-scripts - [sams](https://github.com/thesamesam) Gentoo development scripts
- Creating a new ebuild
openSUSE
- Find out which package owns a particular file
  - Open Build System
  - Build Service Tutorial - follow along style introduction
  - openSUSE Packaging Guidelines
  - Packaging documentation on the openSUSE wiki - bookmark this
  - Build Service Tips and Tricks - learn useful tricks
  - How to contribute to Factory - learn the workflow and some more tricks
  - this
- Setup
  - grc
  - spec-cleaner - cleaner`) to clean the spec file according to the style guide.
- Services
- Useful scripts
  - openSUSE-helpers
- Blog(posts)
RPM
- Blog(posts)
  - SUSE documentation on rpm and rpmbuild
  - Spec file format
- Snippets and tricks
  - lintian
  - rpmlint
rpmlint
- rpmlint filtering
  - rpmlint doc
  - pkgdiff

Programming Languages

Python 6 Shell 2 C 2 Perl 1 C++ 1 OCaml 1 Rust 1

Categories

openSUSE 21 Gentoo 14 Bugs 11 Staying up to date 9 Coredump 7 strace 7 Fedora 7 Debian 6 magic-trace 6 grep, ack, ag, rg 5 readelf and objdump 4 ldd and libtree 4 RPM 4 quilt 4 ltrace 3 Arch Linux 3 gdb 3 More tools 2 Debuginfod 2 Updates 2 ftrace 2 lsof 2 meld 2 What are packages? 2 Security 2 rpmlint 2 wiggle 1 Reproducibility 1 License 1 Buildroot 1

Sub Categories

Quickstart 24 Using ltrace to trace both userspace library calls, syscalls, and collect stack traces 23 Example 21 Blog(posts) 10 Find out which package owns a particular file 7 Extensions 4 Services 3 Creating a new ebuild 3 Setup 2 Snippets and tricks 2 rpmlint filtering 2 Misc 1 Useful scripts 1

Keywords

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