>-----Original Message----- >From: Roland G. [mailto:roland@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx] >Sent: Thursday, October 13, 2005 06:00 PM >To: rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Latest version of documentation? Where? > >Hello, > >where can I find the latest online documentation about RPM? >"Maximum RPM" can be found in the following locations: > >1) http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ >2) http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/ > >Number 2 Seems to be more up to date, correct? > >Both of them are outdated though, e.g. I can't find anything about the >"%define" macro. So where can I get more up to date information? I've been wondering the same thing. RPM seems still to be in an active development phase. Publicly available man pages and books have not kept up. Red Hat must have some documentation that they use internally -- I hope they will release it. But then again, in a GPL era maybe knowledge of how the software works gives a competitive edge, and it's not in their interests to release it. There is one book more recent than Maximum RPM, and it's not bad: Red Hat RPM Guide by Eric Foster-Johnson Copyright 2003 by Red Hat, Inc. Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc. ISBN: 0-7645-4965-0 It does, for example, discuss the "%define" directive for defining macro values in spec files. Oddly, the book does not seem to be mentioned at all on the Red Hat web site. It is out of print. I got my copy used from one of the sellers advertising on Amazon. It was pretty cheap, and well worth the price. But for really up-to-date documentation it seems you have to read the mailing lists and the source code. Stowe Davison _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
