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D. BothUsing and Administering Linux: Volume 3https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-9786-5_55

55. Advanced Package Management

David Both1  
(1)
Raleigh, NC, USA
 

Objectives

In this chapter you will learn

  • To prepare an rpmbuild directory structure to contain RPMs for different architectures

  • To generate an RPM specification (spec) file that defines the structure of the generated RPM package and the files and embedded scripts to be included in it

  • To build an RPM package that contains user-generated scripts and configuration files

Introduction

I have used RPM-based package managers to install software on Red Hat, CentOS, and Fedora since I started using Linux ...

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