RPM/Yum database question

[Paul Howarth]

On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 11:07 -0600, Jack O'Quin wrote:
> Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org> writes:
> 
> > Instead of making manual edits to the RPM database (which are likely
> > to be error-prone), I prefer to roll my own RPMs for anything I build
> > locally and then install the RPM. Of course, this requires the
> > knowledge of how to build RPMs, which is quite a big thing to learn.
> 
> Any pointers on how to get started?

Good introduction:
http://freshrpms.net/docs/fight/

Fedora packaging guidelines:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingHints

Paul.
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Paul Howarth <paul at city-fan.org>