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On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 10:59:52PM -0300, Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 05:23:46PM -0800, Keith Morse wrote:
I would suggest you start at www.rpm.org. There are tutorialsthere. After you've got a feeling on how it works, you should get a few SRPMS from the CentOS repository, and see if you can understand them (the specfiles). It will also give you a feel on the particularities of rpm packages for CentOS (trust me, it will change at lot from on distro to another).
The last time I looked www.rpm.org it appeared not to have been updated in awhile. Additionally, there is a rpm builder's list at RedHat's site that was quite active and might yield some results on a search of the archives
Unless you are willing to read the source, www.rpm.org is one of the best resources. Sad, but true.
And if you are talking about rpm-devel[1] list, that is a common misconception. That is not a package builders list, but a list for the people who are coding rpm itself (main developers, contributors etc). You can get some help there regarding package building, because, if see, people there know how rpm works. But that is usually frowned uppon.
[1] - rpm-list@list.redhat.com, rpm-list@redhat.com
Just expanding a little further on the rpm-list issue.
That is what the list was supposed to be. Unfortunately, since around the time JBJ stopped being project maintainer, there is very little talk about developing rpm on the list. And most threads are indeed related to package building and such.
- -- Rodrigo Barbosa rodrigob@suespammers.org "Quid quid Latine dictum sit, altum viditur" "Be excellent to each other ..." - Bill & Ted (Wyld Stallyns)