Linux Tools Project/SpecfileEditor/User Guide/Create New Spec

Start editing

Starting editing should be as simple as double click on any of the spec files in your projects or going through the File/Open File procedure and select your spec file.

Note: It is strongly recommended that you always have your spec file in a project inside Eclipse workspace to take the most of the editor. Rpmlint integration, some auto-completion and hyperlink are not available when you are editing external (for the workspace) file. At this stage you should see something nice looking like this:

Create new spec file

Part of the plugin is a wizard for creating new specfile. It can be invoked from the menu File/New/Other which should bring the following dialog where you can select "New specfile based on a template".

Dialog providing options and interface for filling the data in the spec file should appear at this stage.

Description of the fields:

   * Project: This is simply the place where generated spec file will be stored and this should be a project in this workspace. For convenience it is auto-filled with the active project when you started the wizard.
   * Select a template: Template functionality is based on the templates provided by rpmdevtools. Check its home page or just try the provided templates to see whether they suits you. The names are clear enough to not need further explanations - perl, ruby, python, etc.
   * Version: The version of the software the spec file is for.
   * Summary: One line description of the packaged software.
   * Group: Drop down menu for selecting the RPM Group this package belongs to. The values in this drop down are filled from the GROUPS file which is part of the RPM documentation package. This file usually resist in a place like /usr/share/doc/rpm-*/GROUPS.
   * License: The license of the packaged software.
   * URL: The URL pointing to the home page of the packaged software.
   * Source0: The name of the source archive the package is builded from.