Fedora Packager For Eclipse User Guide
		Getting Started as Maintainer for a New Fedora Package

What is Fedora Packager for Eclipse?

Fedora Packager for Eclipse is a plug-in for Eclipse that has been available for Fedora users since F14. It helps Fedora packagers, to package their Fedora RPMs from within Eclipse without needing to resort to the command line (at least for the most part). Think of Fedora Packager for Eclipse as a GUI for fedpkg, although it does not use it under the covers.

First, install Fedora Packager for Eclipse:

Some features included in Fedora Packager for Eclipse are:

• Conveniently clone Fedora Git projects
• RPM .spec file editor with syntax highlighting, auto-completion of package names for Requires/BuildRequires templates, %changelog support (Ctrl+Alt+c keyboard shortcut), etc.
• Download source files and upload new source files
• Prepare local builds (execute %prep section of your .spec file only)
• Create source RPMs based on current .spec file
• Perform local builds
• Push builds to Koji (the Fedora build system)
• Mock builds
• Push Bodhi updates
• Create a local Fedora RPM Project to ease the process of introducing a new Fedora package
• Eclipse Git support (via EGit, please refer to EGit documentation)

Feel free to skip to the "Using Fedora Packager" section if you are an existing maintainer and know how to package new software for Fedora.

		Getting Started as Maintainer for a New Fedora Package