On Tue, 19 Aug 2008, Filipe Brandenburger wrote: > Hi all, > > Sorry for the delay, the last few weeks were hectic. > > I have a first version of the pages: > - http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/SetupRpmBuildEnvironment > - http://wiki.centos.org/HowTos/RebuildSRPM > > Let me know what you think. Feel free to suggest changes and > additions, I'll be happy to change the pages according to them. looks nice, although I remain unconvinced as to the proliferation of essentially identical content -- I added a caveat on the first page as to 'redhat-rpm-config', which causes really herd to diagnose errors when absent (mentioned at my prime page) The restriction to CentOS 5 is unneeded, and potentially confusing. Please set up a xen instance and convince yourself that this is the case, and delete the limitation language. -- I also question the piecemeal addition of first make, and then gcc -- yum is well capable of skipping already installed packages, and handling multiple packages at once. I am also a bit confused at the mention of 'checking' items to install in yum, which is a TUI tool without checkboxes. On the second article, I am really against the mention of multiple third party archives in that article. I think it should NOT be in this artivcle at all. It implicitly endorses some non-CentOS sources to the exclusion of others -- Dag, is to my mind, a much stronger and better packager than the average found in the second listed third-party archive. My personal opinion, but that is the point -- this series need was presented as articles to address CentOS needs within CentOS confines. In each article referring to Max RPM as a Bible, is just wrong except in the sense that one means 'something ancient'. I would point solely to: http://wiki.centos.org/PackageManagement/Rpm as a single point of content management, and leave it at that. that page describes some better external resources. I request that change. -- Russ herrold
