Re: RPM

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Karl Larsen wrote:
Les Mikesell wrote:
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.

Well I know from reading man yum that it uses rpm and if there is a problem with rpm then yum errors out. We see that a lot on this list. I will check the book on rpmbuild programs and see what they and check that with the man page.



OK. The book Maximum RPM does not even mention rpmbuild. For this function I think the early work was done with amanda. I expect most of rpmbuild is in amanda but not easy to check.

It does talk to moving your rpm building to your own non-root directories and I have been using this before a lot.



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