On Sunday 10 May 2009, Rahul Sundaram wrote: >On 05/10/2009 05:28 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> On Sun, 10 May 2009 00:53:52 -0400 >> >> Gene Heskett wrote: >>> That leaves both of us in the dark calling each other less than >>> experts. And that isn't pretty to the bystanders. >> >> All I know about making rpms is that I searched the web for >> simple instructions and found a link to a guide all kinds of >> different pages pointed at as the simplest possible intro >> document for building an rpm: It was a 97 page long pdf file. >> I ran screaming into the night :-). > >Look at > >https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package > >Rahul Which, if printed, is still 29 pages, Rahul. Clear and Concise writing seems to be a lost art. There has been 10x more pages written on rpm now, than Kernigan & Ritchie put in the original C book, but that book, and its successor (I have both) can be used for a demo of how to write clear, concise docs. Which has had the most profound effect on our computing experience today? I suspect you will not like the answer. :) -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Believe everything you hear about the world; nothing is too impossibly bad. -- Honor'e de Balzac -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
