<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"/> <title>Development Questions</title> </head> <body> <a name="top"></a> <h2>Development Questions</h2> <ul> <li><a href="#16">Packaging Scribus rpms,debs or plug-ins - What should I do ?</a></li> <li><a href="#12">I have a great idea for adding something to Scribus. How can I write a plug-in?</a></li> <li><a href="#18">I am interested in contributing. Is there documentation on coding style or other reference?</a></li> </ul> <h3>Answers</h3> <ul> <li><a name="16"></a> <p class="faqquestion">Packaging Scribus rpms, debs or plug-ins - What should I do?</p> <p>Downstream packagers are asking for and may soon demand GPG signed tarballs. For Fedora, this is not a requirement, but does ease acceptance of packages. It also shows we are doing "The Right Thing". md5sums are not foolproof.</p> <p>To create a gpg signed tarball: <br/> <code>$gpg -u packager@foo.net --armor --output tarball.sig --detach-sig tarball.tar.gz </code></p> <p>To verify : <br/> <code>$gpg --verify ./tarball.asc ./tarball.tar.gz</code></p> <p><strong>Packaging plug-ins:</strong></p> <p>Plug-ins should be named <i>scribus-something</i>. This helps packagers deal with revisions and obsoletes when upgrading.</p> <p><strong>Signing your package,deb,tar etc.</strong></p> <p>First, you need to have a public/private keypair. This can be generated with GPG using <code>gpg --gen-key</code></p> <p>To add a signature to an existing package, use the command <code>rpm --addsign /path/to/package.rpm</code> To sign in the process of building a package, use <code>rpmbuild -bb --sign</code></p> <p>To check the signature on a package, use <code>rpm --checksig</code></p> <a href="#top">Back to top</a><hr/> </li> <li><a name="12"></a> <p class="faqquestion">I have a great idea for adding something to Scribus. How can I write a plug-in?</p> <p>Thanks to Petr Vanek, there is nicely done article: <a href="plugin_howto.html">Scribus Plug-in Howto</a> online.</p> <a href="#top">Back to top</a><hr/> </li> <li><a name="18"></a> <p class="faqquestion">I am interested in contributing. Is there documentation on coding style or other reference?</p> <p>Glad you asked. There is a <a href="codingstandards.html">Scribus Coding section</a> which outlines coding style and recommendations for code submissions.</p> <a href="#top">Back to top</a><hr/> </li> </ul> </body> </html>
