On Wed, 2015-08-12 at 21:53 -0700, Joseph Areeda wrote: > Hi, > > I'm finding myself in the situation where it would be nice to be able to > package our apps or backport newer versions of some apps to work with > modules on SL6. > > I've found lots of things on the web that are either too single minded > or incomprehensible. > > If you remember how you learned to create RPMs, I'd appreciate some > advice on how to get going. Good books, tutorials or websites. The > reference documentation is NOT a good place to start, necessary, but not > a good cover to cover read, at least not yet. > > We have people in the collaboration that can do it but they are so > overwhelmed only critical things get done. It would be nice if I could > do things that are important to me. > > Thanks, > Joe
I found this useful when I started learning quite a few years ago: https://www.gurulabs.com/downloads/GURULABS-RPM-LAB/GURULABS-RPM-GUIDE-v1.0.PDF And as someone else mentioned, the information on the Fedora project page is also extremely useful. -- Mark Whidby System Administrator/Operations IT Services
