On Sat, Feb 22, 2014 at 05:32:22AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: > > other than the standard, what i would call basic usage of rpm and > yum, is there a really comprehensive guide to package management on > fedora? it seems that once one gets beyond the basic tutorials for yum > and rpm, it gets harder to find decent coverage of the rest of the > utilities, like the commands in yum-utils like "repoquery" and so on. > > is there a single place that tries to cover rpm/yum to this depth? > thanks.
The documentation is all scattered. IMO there are two aspects to packaging: 1. How rpm behaves and does things; a good starting point for that would be this tutorial: <https://www.gurulabs.com/downloads/GURULABS-RPM-LAB/GURULABS-RPM-GUIDE-v1.0.PDF>. It is quite old, but explains the basics quite well. 2. The second aspect is Fedora specific conventions and policies; I refer to <https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines> for that. The rest is looking at other spec files and learning how to deal with corner cases. As for tools provided by yum-utils, I do not think there is any document pointing to all the tools, I would simply do `rpm -ql yum-utils' to explore. Hope this helps, PS: If you are building packages allowed in Fedora, checkout Fedora copr. -- Suvayu Open source is the future. It sets us free. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
