[lug] February 14th talk?

[Sean Reifschneider]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 09:12:13AM -0700, Riggs, Rob wrote:
>I do have a question regarding scope. What aspects of package management
>would you like to see discussed? User perspective? Systems administration?
>Developer/packager? All of the above?

I figured I would give an overview of what RPM gives you, packages,
versions, provides and requires and file-lists.  Showing things like "rpm
-V" to verify that files installed haven't been corrupted, etc...

Then I'd go into what it takes to make an RPM -- the part I like the
best...  Show a spec file, and how it includes the pristine sources, build
information, and file information, then show a build and how it puts it all
together to make a binary that you can reproduce at a later point making
surgical changes without forgetting other changes you may have made.

Sean
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