On Wednesday 13 April 2005 14:59, Dax Kelson wrote:
We have released a section of our courseware under a Creative Commons license that has very comprehensive coverage of building RPMs.
It has treatment of the whole spectrum of issues including making proper patches, the freedesktop.org menu specification, and ancillary files like logrotate.d files, cron.*/ files, SysV init files along with chkconfig, etc.
One unique thing about the guide is that it is not just a reference as it includes a very detailed (48 page) lab exercise that walks a would be packager through several real world scenarios including:
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The guide can be found under the "Goodies" section of our website here:
http://www.gurulabs.com/goodies/guru+guides.php
I'm excited to make this release and hope it is useful addition to the available RPM documentation and helps increase the amount of quality packagers and packages.
Dax Kelson Guru Labs
Thank you Dax!