ons, 13.04.2005 kl. 21.57 skrev Dax Kelson: > We have released a section of our courseware under a Creative Commons > license that has very comprehensive coverage of building RPMs. > > It has treatment of the whole spectrum of issues including making proper > patches, the freedesktop.org menu specification, and ancillary files > like logrotate.d files, cron.*/ files, SysV init files along with > chkconfig, etc. > > One unique thing about the guide is that it is not just a reference as > it includes a very detailed (48 page) lab exercise that walks a would be > packager through several real world scenarios including: > > * Setting up a build environment > * Re-building an existing src.rpm > * Updating a src.rpm with newer software release (and handling merged > upstream patches) > * Creating a spec file from scratch to package an application > * Extending a spec file to break a single application into multiple > logical packages > * Setting up GnuPG and signing your packages > > The lab exercise has been validated and tested to "just work as written" > on the following distributions: > > Fedora Core 3 > Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 > SUSE Linux Professional 9.2 > SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 > > It will likely work, possibly with small modifications, on other RPM > based distributions as well. > > The guide can be found under the "Goodies" section of our website here: > > http://www.gurulabs.com/goodies/guru+guides.php > > I'm excited to make this release and hope it is useful addition to the > available RPM documentation and helps increase the amount of quality > packagers and packages. > > Dax Kelson > Guru Labs Really, really great guide! Only problem is, i can't get it printed - In acroread, it shows up all fine, but in ggv and in printout from acroread (piped through kprinter), many of the letters are completely messed up. Output of printer looks like "~~~~~"... Any ideas how to fix this? Hate on-screen reading :) Kyrre Ness Sjøbæk
