On 08/03/13 11:18, Robert Wood wrote: > Even as a programmer/electronics engineer (admittedly down at an > embedded level most of the time) some of this is going so far over my > head, it's a vapour trail in the sky. > > There are far too many acronyms of stuff I've not come across, for me to > even get the vaguest grasp of what's been talked about. > > I'm not sure what the answer is really, I thought maybe a you tube > tutorial might be a good idea, but even then, how do you know what level > to talk down to. > > No idea, for example. what iurt, mock are or do; how to make a minimal > install and keep making the system go back to minimal install when > creating the next RPM; what a btrfs subvolume is and other things. > > I still don't get this whole trial and error thing. It seems that you > might submit something to the repositories that someone finds doesn't > install because of a missing dependency and you redo it. Then you can > retry that for up to five goes before it finally works? That seems > crazy. I must have misunderstood. > > I have no problem learning stuff, I do it every single day in my work > and it's what makes it so enjoyable, but maybe I need to take smaller > steps first? No idea where to start or how to go about doing that > though. As I might not have any work in a week's time it would > potentially be an ideal time to learn, but maybe I'm just not the right > person to do this?
There is a great mentoring programme Robert and we're always short of packagers. Have a read here and find yourself a mentor: https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Becoming_a_Mageia_Packager Claire
