Thanks. I'll be in touch in a couple of weeks once I have set up an
area on a website for the review material.
Regards
Andrew
On 09/01/13 23:41, Zhang, Qiang Z wrote:
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Sent: Thursday, January 10, 2013 3:43 AM
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Subject: Writing new book: "The RPM Reference"
I mentioned on the rpm-list almost two years ago that I was writing a book
"Linux Software Management with RPM and YUM". That stalled for various
reasons, one of which was that the subject was just too broad.
I have narrowed the focus now and am working on a book, provisionally entitled
"The RPM Reference". It will do what the title implies, provide a reference
primarily for the rpm and rpmbuild commands (including coverage of spec files,
macros, scripts, triggers, etc) covering rpm versions 4.4.2 (SLES 10), 4.4.2.3
(RHEL5, SLES 11), 4.8.0 (RHEL6), 4.9.1.3 (Fedora 17 and openSUSE 12.2) and
4.10.1 (Fedora 18), and whatever RHEL7 uses when it comes out. I have been
reviewing whatever documentation, books and articles I can find and exploring
the source code for the different versions (including the patches for the disto
packages). There are areas, like SELinux policies, that I am going to have to
learn up on, but I am hoping to have the bulk of the book written in the first half
of the year. Double checking the correctness of everything, especially all the
compatibility information is going to take quite a while though.
If you would like to help with reviewing the new book, drop me an email. I am
anticipating having the first chapters ready for review by early February.
[Qiang] I would like to.
Thanks
Qiang
Regards
Andrew
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