[Rpm-maint] documentation on internals; layout of rpm file?

[Mark Hatle]

I made a document a while back that lists how the data structures relate
to each other:

http://gate.crashing.org/~fray/rpm/

Look at the two "rpm-xml-desc.*" files.

The documents were written to allow someone to read the xml output from
RPM who didn't know anything about RPM packages.  (This of course
doesn't cover how the RPM binary is organized though..)

--Mark

Panu Matilainen wrote:
> 
> On Thu, 1 Nov 2007, Paul Elliott wrote:
> 
>>
>> How do I find the documentation on rpm internals; specificly how
>> an rpm file is laid out, how digital signing is implemented?
>>
>> What does the guts of an rpm file look like and where is this
>> documented?
> 
> rpm.org carries some documentation regarding the file format:
> http://wiki.rpm.org/FileFormat
> http://rpm.org/api/4.4.2.2/pkgformat.html
> 
> I don't think the digital signing is documented other than "read the
> source", you might find something in the doxygen docs:
> http://rpm.org/api/4.4.2.2/index.html
> 
>     - Panu -
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