Software packaging

RPM

RPM basics

• RPM Spec file
• using RPM macros
• RPM macros list
• RPM package depencies
• Heavily commented SPEC file examples
• RPM Arch Specific Package Requirements(_isa macros)

RPM Howtos

• RPM conditional macros tips
• How to create a patch
• RPM spec %prep hints
• Getting rid of pesky perl dependencies
• How to avoid stripping when building RPMs
• How to extract .rpm package content

TODO

• RPM old

DEB

• build deb package
• Debian repository structure
• create deb repository