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Red Hat RPM Guide released
Red Hat has released a new, extensive guide to the RPM
package manager under the Open Publication License. It probably
belongs in the bookmarks of anybody who manages an RPM-based system.
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Great step, but finish it please! Posted Nov 3, 2005 19:14 UTC (Thu) by bastiaan (guest, #5170) [Link] I've always found it strange that RedHat so poorly documented such a central piece of software as RPM. So, I very much welcome this effort to improve the situation.However, this document is still incomplete, inprecise and already obsolete at certain points. A few examples: * in the 'Extending RPM Management' section no mention of yum whatsoever!? It discusses obsolete tools like apt-rpm and autoupdate instead. * still no complete DTD for the RPM spec file. * section 22.1 talks about the obsolete 'copyright' tag instead of 'licenses' * the same section talks about the 'epoch', but lacks a clear definition. * most parts of chapter 22 just give examples of tags but no definitions or complete syntax. * chapter 22 doesn't mention some tags or qualifiers at all. For example '%ghost', '%attr', '%config(noreplace)', triggers. * section 3.2.2.2 does mention '%config(noreplace)' briefly, but fails to clarify wether (noreplace) needs to be in the old package, new package, either or both for the policy to apply.
I know this still is a draft, but judging from the content it appears to have been a draft for a rather long time :-( Also the fact that the revision histoy shows only one checkin a month ago is not a very good sign.
Please RedHat complete the guide!
Regards,
Bastiaan
Great step, but finish it please! Posted Nov 3, 2005 19:21 UTC (Thu) by pnasrat (subscriber, #31781) [Link] The plan is to update it - this is merely what was published in book format with errata.
The work so far has been conversion - interested contributors should see the fedora-docs-list, where I'll be organising the editorial and content update process.
Great step, but finish it please! Posted Nov 3, 2005 22:07 UTC (Thu) by bastiaan (guest, #5170) [Link] Ah, I see. The 2005 copyright made me think the content was written this year , rather than 2003 mostly.Well, I'll be happy to contribute (if only snippets and comments).
Great step, but finish it please! Posted Nov 4, 2005 21:01 UTC (Fri) by rahulsundaram (subscriber, #21946) [Link]
fedora-docs list would be a good place to start for interested contributors
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