Multiple versions of software

[mail-lists at karan.org (Karanbir Singh)]

Matt Lawrence wrote:
> On 12/5/05, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ivazquez@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> 
>>As long as you build it as a binary package rpm will prevent you from
>>causing problems. It won't tell you how to rename the binary from perl
>>to perl64 though.
> 
> 
> Well, yeah, that is the plan.  I've been going through the .spec file
> in an attempt to make the appropriate changes.  Unfortunately, RPM has
> evolved significantly since the publication of "Maximum RPM".  Does
> anyone have any good pointers to detailed documentation on the new
> features and syntax?

http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/
and
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/drafts/rpm-guide-en/

lots of info there, apart from that try the rpm-devel and rpm mailing lists.

- K