On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Jonathan Gardner wrote: > On Monday 02 June 2003 17:32, Bill Gradwohl wrote: > > The "Maximum RPM" docs that come with RH9 are Copyright © 2000. That's ages > > ago. The docs are good at explaining -i, -e and -q, but refer to -b for > > building which is no longer applicable since "rpmbuild" took over those > > chores. > > > > Does anyone know of a better source of current information regarding > > "rpmbuild" that's comprehensive and more descriptive than the man page? A > > book, web site, anything. I'd prefer examples and scenarios to just a dry > > man page description of all the bells and whistles. > > > > "Maximum RPM" isn't too bad of a reference, but, true, it is a little dated. > RPM is one of those things you really should learn by reading other spec > files. You have hundreds of them with your Red Hat system, so your best > reference is going to be all of those source RPM spec files. Not only that, > but there are thousands of RPMs out in the wild. I am sure one of them does > pretty much what you want. > > And when you run into problems -- Jeff Johnson at rpm-list is extremely > helpful and friendly, as well as several other helping hands. I don't think > they look unfavorably on anyone who is taking the time to package their > software the best they can. a guy named matthias saou runs a site called http://freshrpms.net, which is a repository for pre-built RPMS for the latest versions of red hat linux. in addition to the RPMs themselves, he makes available the spec files and there's also a tutorial for building RPMs, if that's what you're interested in. rday -- Robert P. J. Day Eno River Technologies Unix, Linux and Open Source training Waterloo, Ontario www.enoriver.com
