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Documentation

As explained on this page, OpenPKG offers quite a lot of documentation. Following are links to the HTML versions of most documents:
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The OpenPKG Brochure

# #This is a brochure, summarizing the key points of OpenPKG on a two page #sheet for those not knowing anything at all about OpenPKG. It is under #construction and available in the following formats: # #

The OpenPKG Slideset

This is the overview slideset, which summarizes OpenPKG in a one hour presentation for both users and developers. It is available in the following formats:

The OpenPKG Quick Reference

This is the quick reference for OpenPKG. It summarizes the commands and facts for working with OpenPKG on a daily basis and is intended for users with some limited knowlege of OpenPKG. The quick reference is under construction and available in the following formats:

The OpenPKG Article

This article is a very concise yet comprehensive summary about OpenPKG. It describes all OpenPKG's essentials:

The OpenPKG Handbook

This is the official handbook for the OpenPKG project. It describes all important issues of OpenPKG in detail and is intended for both for end users and developers. It is under construction and available in the following formats:

The Book "Maximum RPM"

There is a book entitled "Maximum RPM -- Taking the Red Hat Package Manager to the Limit", written by by Edward C. Bailey in 1997. Is is 442 pages long and covers everything from general RPM usage to building your own RPMs to programming with rpmlib.

The book was originally available in hardback (ISBN 1888172789) from the Red Hat Press, however only a paperback version (ISBN 0672311054) is currently available. The content in both book formats is exactly the same, and the original LaTeX and Postscript sources are still found on http://www.rpm.org/.

For your convinience we've assembled the material, converted the LaTeX sources to nice HTML pages via LaTeX2HTML and also produced other formats. Here are the results:

The RPM HOWTO

There is a tutorial style paper from the Linux Documentation Project (LDP) which introduces working with RPM:

Some other Articles

A few good RPM articles found on the Internet are:

Third Party OpenPKG Information

Some third parties have written additional information on OpenPKG. Special care should be taken when reading the following documents as some content could be misleading or out of date: @ 1.16 log @link to Bill CAMPBELL's OpenPKG pages with his permission @ text @d139 2 a140 1
  • Pages on libertysoft.org @ 1.15 log @diverse english grammar, style, and usage corrections @ text @d132 10 @ 1.14 log @source is now available, too @ text @d8 2 a9 2 There is a bunch of documentation for OpenPKG. Here are the links to their versions which can be best viewed on-line: d17 2 a18 2
  • RPM Book "Maximum-RPM" (HTML 4.0)
  • RPM HOW-TO (HTML 4.0) d25 3 a27 4 #This is the brochure for OpenPKG. It summarizes the key points of #OpenPKG on a two-page sheet for people who do not know anything about #OpenPKG. It is still under construction and available in the following #formats: d35 2 a36 2 This is the overview slideset for OpenPKG. It summarizes OpenPKG in a one-hour presentation for users and developers. It is available in the d48 3 a50 3 facts one has to know on a daily basis when working with OpenPKG. It is intended for OpenPKG users with some limited knowlege of OpenPKG. It is still under construction and available in the following formats: d58 2 a59 2 This is a very concise and all-in-one summary article about OpenPKG. It describes all essentials of OpenPKG. d69 2 a70 2 end-users and developers. It is still under construction and available in the following formats: d84 5 a88 5 There is an official book RPM book entitled "Maximum RPM -- Taking the Red Hat Package Manager to the Limit", written by by Edward C. Bailey in 1997. Is is 442 pages long and covers everything from general RPM usage to building your own RPMs to programming with rpmlib. d91 5 a95 5 The book was originally available in hardback under ISBN 1888172789 from the Red Hat Press. The original LaTeX and Postscript sources still can be found on http://www.rpm.org/. Currently only a paperback version is available on the market under the ISBN 0672311054. The content in both book versions is exactly the same. d109 1 a109 1

    RPM HOWTO

    d111 2 a112 3 There is also an RPM HOWTO from the Linux Documentation Project (LDP). This is a tutorial-style paper which introduces working with RPM. d123 1 a123 1

    Articles

    d125 1 a125 2 There are various articles about RPM flying around on the net. A few good ones we reference here: a131 1 @ 1.13 log @PPT is not online currently @ text @d41 1 a41 1 #
  • PowerPoint (PowerPoint 2003; source) @ 1.12 log @link new slideset into website @ text @d41 1 a41 1
  • PowerPoint (PowerPoint 2003; source) @ 1.11 log @cosmetics and prpoper commenting @ text @d12 1 a12 1
  • OpenPKG Slideset (HTML 4.0) d41 3 a43 2
  • PowerPoint (PowerPoint 2000; source)
  • HTML (HTML 4.0) @ 1.10 log @flush pending changes @ text @d11 1 a11 1