I am deal with rpm from it's 3.* days. I'll be glad to help. Valery. --- On Fri, 4/8/11, Andrew Ford <A.Ford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > From: Andrew Ford <A.Ford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Subject: New book on package management with RPM and YUM > To: rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, yum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Date: Friday, April 8, 2011, 10:28 PM > I am the author of the "Apache 2 > Pocket Reference" and the "mod_perl Pocket Reference" > (published by O'Reilly), and back in 1994 I wrote "Spinning > the Web" (the first book on web publishing). I > recently started work on a short (concise) book on Linux > package management with RPM and YUM, and am looking for > volunteers to review the book as it comes together. > > The book will be aimed at savvy system administrators, and > software developers and others who need to package up their > software for RPM-based distros. It is not going to go > into the same sort of depth as the Fedora "RPM Guide" - it > will only be about 100 pages - but will be the sort of book > that someone who roughly knows what they are doing can dip > into to remind themselves of this or that detail, and > perhaps come away with some nugget of information they > hadn't realized they needed. It will basically be in > two halves: the first part will cover use of RPM and YUM as > a system administrator (including setting up a YUM > repository), while the second part will cover building > RPMs. > > If you would like to help, please email me at A.Ford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx I > expect to be at a stage to start putting material out for > review in four or five weeks, and delivery is planned for > the end of July. > > Thanks > Andrew > > -- Andrew Ford > South Wing Compton House, Compton Green, > Redmarley, Gloucestershire, GL19 3JB, UK > Tel: +44 1531 829900 > Mobile: +44 7785 258278 > Email: A.Ford@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > _______________________________________________ > Rpm-list mailing list > Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list > _______________________________________________ Rpm-list mailing list Rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.rpm.org/mailman/listinfo/rpm-list
