RPM

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Nov 1 15:19:42 UTC 2007


Karl Larsen wrote:

>    My opinion is the book is just as good today as it was 10 years ago. 
> The updates have been to solve bugs and make the code better at doing 
> what it does. And the way to make a rpm file has not changed in 10 years.

Does the book cover the split in functionality between the rpm and 
rpmbuild programs that happened some time ago? 'man' will show what each 
does now.

Also, you really want to understand 'yum' before trying to do much with 
the lower level rpm commands.  If you are trying to install something 
that exists in a yum-compatible repository, you should use yum instead 
of touching rpm directly, and if you are building rpms yourself for more 
than one machine you'll probably want to put them in a yum repository 
that all machines can access.

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   Les Mikesell
    lesmikesell at gmail.com




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