Re: RPM documentation

[guest <mark@xxxxxxxxx>]

The book looks great and I have no problem paying for a well written 
tomb that organizes everything in one place.  However it seems to me the 
raw information should be available some place in the distribution even 
if its a cryptic man page.   My look shows them to be out of date or 
incomplete. Thats understandable for some of the 1000's of packages in 
the distribution with  harried upstream maintainers that sometimes fall 
back on "read the source."  But for the Package Manager itself, a RH 
creation and now part of the LSB, we shouldn't have to go Amazon for 
essentials.

-Mark

Brent Fox wrote:

> On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 20:32, 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 -b for building which is no longer applicable since "rpmbuild" took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.
> >    
>
> Take a look at the Red Hat RPM Guide, which was just released by Red Hat
> Press in March of 2003.  
>
> http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0764549650/qid=1054670570/sr=8-1/ref=sr_8_1/102-8543246-8486556?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
>
>
> Cheers,
>   Brent
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