Red Hat RPM Guide

by Eric Foster-Johnson

Book Overview

RPM is the Linux industry standard for making application installation easy and its use is gaining mindshare amongst users and administrators of other Unix platforms Offers insight and examples to creating applications that rely upon or enhance RPM, enabling users to package and deploy software in RPM format Discusses the use of RPM to manage software and examines the tools provided for user control Book will be technically reviewed by the key RPM...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764549650
• ISBN13: 9780764549656
• Release Date: December 2002
• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Length: 519 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Comprehensive rpm guide

Its been a long time since Maximum RPM was written. In the mean time the rpm package tool has grown from a command-line tool and C programming API into much more. Its become the base for many linux distributions, and companies are using it to deploy linux throughout their IT infrastructure.The parts of redhat's new RPM book that I most appreciated have been the in-depth examination of the modern rpm .spec file, from which packages get built, and the descriptions of the perl and python API's for the rpm interface. Documentation for these areas have been lacking, and this book covers them thoroughly.This book worked very well as a reference to aide my company's linux deployment.Speaking only for myself,-Peter