[CentOS-docs] Re: Create page about rebuilding SRPMS and preparing RPM environment

Sat Jul 19 07:18:38 UTC 2008
Marcus Moeller <mm at gcug.de>

Dear Russ.

>> I would personally welcome such a Documentation (if it's maintained,
>> of course) as I agree with you if you are saying that there is no
>> howto available covering nearly all aspects of the RPM build process.
>
> I wonder what in the world, which is material, you think is ** not **
> covereed between the Ed Bailey, and the Eric Foster-Johnson, the GuruLabs
> resources (each down those links).
>
> I can (and did) rattle off the un-covered dark corners from years of being
> in the space. When prompted on a new area of material interest, I prepare a
> writeup, and link it in. And maintain it thereafter.

I am speaking about the CentOS Wiki and nothing more. I think pages
like the Yum and RPM page should cover aspects of handling both tools
and the build process should be described on a seperate page and
linked from there.

Best Regards
Marcus