On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, Karl Larsen wrote: > Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Oct 2007, William Hooper wrote: > > > It's still available now: > > > > > > http://www.redhat.com/docs/books/max-rpm/ > > > > > > > given that that book appears to have not been updated since 2000, > > i'd suggest that it doesn't have much value these days, given all > > the rpm-related developments that have happened since then. > > > > rday > > > I take rday you know of a newer book in pdf form that we can all > make a book of that was written this month i'll tell you what, karl. things will go much more smoothly around here if we have a clearly-defined separation of responsibilities. now, in *my* case, having been around fedora for years, having used rpm for quite some time, and having actually *owned* the aforementioned book in treeware form, it will be *my* job to recommend that it might not be worth the time or money to get into it given that it's seven years old and almost certainly out of date, given everything that's happened with rpm since then. similarly, it will be *your* responsibility to do stupid things to your system, complain when it breaks, then offer to write worthless, error-filled "tutorials" that will almost certainly inspire readers who take you seriously to cause untold damage to their computers. how about it, karl? are you good with that? does that work for you? rday -- ======================================================================== Robert P. J. Day Linux Consulting, Training and Annoying Kernel Pedantry Waterloo, Ontario, CANADA http://crashcourse.ca ========================================================================
