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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Karl F. Larsen, AKA K5DI
Linux User
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