On 4 Jun 2003, Brent Fox wrote: > On Wed, 2003-06-04 at 11:29, guest wrote: > > 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 My look shows them to be out of date or 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. > > You're totally right. I'll forward a copy of this email over to the > Docs group and see if they can do anything to help. from my experience, i think there should be at least a couple levels of RPM documentation. first, there's just plain "rpm" usage, for installing/upgrading/freshening/removing/querying. a *slightly* more sophisticated second level would be installing and building source RPMs, although this is almost indistinguishable from the first level, perhaps adding in additional info for building for a specific architecture. finally, there's docs to build your own RPMs. at a minimum, the first (and second) levels should be *very* well documented and come with the RH distros. rday
