Résumé
Your Official Red Hat Linux Guide to RPM
Reviewed and approved by the experts at Red Hat, this in-depth guide offers a complete education on Red Hat Package Manager, or RPM. Veteran software developer Eric Foster-Johnson supplies everything you need to know to create applications that rely on RPM, or to package and deploy software in RPM format.
First, you will learn how the package management approach, along with specific RPM tools, enables more efficient user control. Then you'll move step by step through preparing software for release in an easy-to-manage RPM format, explore programming interfaces and supplemental software that can enhance RPM operation, and acquire the knowledge you need to extend RPM functionality.
With its detailed coverage, comprehensive appendices, and handy at-a-glance references, this book is a resource you'll consult many times over.
Proven Red Hat RPM Solutions
- Understand the package concept, the history of RPM, its design, and its terminology
- Query the RPM database and verify installed packages and files
- Install, remove, and upgrade software using RPM
- Back up an RPM database and repair a damaged one
- Examine package dependencies and transactions and understand how to use them
- Learn to build and package RPMs, optimize builds, sign built packages, and avoid common packaging mistakes
- Discover how to automate RPM with scripts and learn when scripting is appropriate
- Program RPM with C, Python, and Perl
- Extend RPM on non-Red Hat Linuxes, create non-Linux RPMs, and customize RPM behavior
"Finally, the missing guide to RPM. For system administrators and developers, this is the book from which to learn how best to exploit RPM's features."
-Chip Turner, Senior Software Engineer, Red Hat
Contents
- RPM Basics
- Introducing Package Management
- Introduction to RPM
- RPM Overview
- Using RPM
- Using the RPM Database
- Package Dependencies
- Transactions
- RPM Management Software
- Creating RPMs
- Creating RPMs: An Overview
- Working with Spec Files
- Advanced RPM Packaging
- Controlling the Build with rpmbuild
- Supplemental Packaging Software
- Packaging Guidelines
- Programming RPM
- Automating RPM with Scripts
- Programming RPM with C
- Programming RPM with Python
- Programming RPM with Perl
- Extending RPM
- Using RPM on Non-Red Hat Linuxes
- RPM on Other Operating Systems
- Customizing RPM Behavior
- Appendixes
- Index
L'auteur - Eric Foster-Johnson
Eric Foster-Johnson is a veteran software developer who works daily with Linux, Unix, Windows, and various other systems. A seasoned writer, he is also the author of Graphical Applications with Tcl and Tk, Perl Modules, and coauthor of Teach Yourself Linux.
Caractéristiques techniques
| PAPIER | |
| Éditeur(s) | Wiley |
| Auteur(s) | Eric Foster-Johnson |
| Parution | 04/06/2003 |
| Nb. de pages | 548 |
| Format | 18,7 x 23,5 |
| Couverture | Broché |
| Poids | 805g |
| Intérieur | Noir et Blanc |
| EAN13 | 9780764549656 |
| ISBN13 | 978-0-7645-4965-6 |
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