[Novalug] Interest in Package Management Presentation?

Mackenzie Morgan macoafi@gmail.com
Tue Oct 6 12:00:40 EDT 2009


On Tuesday 06 October 2009 11:47:33 am American Dave wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 06, 2009 at 11:24:45AM -0400, Paul Sullivan wrote:
> > http://www.amazon.com/Red-Hat-Guide-Eric-Foster-Johnson/dp/0764549650/ref
> >=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254842658&sr=8-1
> 
> Hopefully Paul doesn't mind me pointing this out, but he's maintained
> thousands of RPMs for a huge organization for years.  He could certainly
> speak with authority on the matter and I'd love to co-present if he were
> interested.
> 
> I'd propose the following:
> 
> * Why you'd want to make RPMs
> * How to make RPMs
> * How to make Solaris PKG's (if there's interest)
> * How to migrate to Linux if you have to make Solaris packages ;)
> * How to create and use Yum repositories.

Been a year since I rolled an rpm by hand. I could use a refresher.  Maybe 
I'll have to attend.

> Time interest/permitting:
> * How to make/use drpms, Debian/Ubuntu debs, apt, and maybe
>  "next-generation" package management.
> * Tools to help create packages

And I could help on the deb/apt stuff.  I just gave a talk at OLF on Debian/Red 
Hat with a nice big chunk on converting between yum/rpm and apt/dpkg.  And 
packaging is a lot of what I do in Ubuntu.

-- 
Mackenzie Morgan
http://ubuntulinuxtipstricks.blogspot.com
apt-get moo



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