Tools/RPM

RPM

RPM is the package management program used by Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux and other distributions.

Documentation

There are two main books describing RPM: Maximum RPM and RPM Guide . Work is inplace to ensure that we have a current RPM book.

• See ["Tools/RPM/VersionComparison"] for a detailed explanation of the version comparison algorithm.
• See ["Tools/RPM/StateMachines"] for an explanation of the various RPM state machines
• See http://wraptastic.org/apidocs/html/index.html for Doxygen RPM API docs

Articles

• http://www.redhat.com/magazine/001nov04/features/betterliving/
• http://www.redhat.com/magazine/002dec04/features/betterliving-part2/
• http://www.gurulabs.com/GURULABS-RPM-LAB/GURULABS-RPM-GUIDE-v1.0.PDF

Getting the Source

The primary methods of distributing the rpm source are source RPMs in the Fedora Core development tree and CVS. To access CVS, set your CVSROOT to :pserver:anonymous@cvs.rpm.org:/cvs/devel and checkout the rpm module. The main branch of focus at the moment is rpm-4_4

Reporting Problems

If you are having difficulty installing, please file the problem report with your distribution vendor. Volunteer support can also be recieved on #rpm on freenode.

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