Re: State of RPMs

Thomas Lockhart <lockhart(at)alumni(dot)caltech(dot)edu> writes:

> > And don't say that Mandrake needs to get with the program -- it's awful
> > hard to get with an _undocumented_ program. It's hard to use a feature
> > you don't know about. Just look at the confusion on rpm-list of rpm v4.
>
> Hmm. I had purchased the RPM book quite some time ago, but have found no
> source of info for rpm-3 features. afaict the program (or at least its
> more recent features) has been undocumented for a while. But I haven't
> looked recently...
>
> Or, let's rephrase this in a positive way: Trond, where would be the
> best places to look for these newer features? I recall looking at other
> spec files to stumble across stuff that wasn't in the book.

The doc directory of rpm and the macros file - 3.0.5 has been
released(with much stuff from 4.0-series) , 4.0 is due soon. After
that, the current plan is for the author to spend a couple of
hours/day creating more documentation.

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Trond Eivind Glomsrød
Red Hat, Inc.