[Samir Cury]

two tools that I just heard years after learning about packaging are :

debootstrap  - debian like

febootstrap - redhat like

So you can simulate your package being installed on a VERY BASIC and
fresh-installed system =) pretty useful.

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 5:15 PM, mark meyer <geeky2 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
> hello all,
>
> can someone suggest a couple of good books / information sources on rpm
> packaging.
>
> i really need a "ground up" introduction / best practices.
>
> i have a production build environment running on linux using ant to do the
> build.
>
> our packaging system (at this time) is a large .tar file (of a directory
> structure) that we distribute.
>
> i need to convert all of this to rpms.
>
> thank you
> mark
>
>
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