Michael Johnson wrote:
> I think the average linux user of average ability--if they are willing to
> RTFM could learn how to roll an RPM successfully on the first try in about
> an hour or so. Maybe less.
While I always enjoy reading Michael Johnson's informed messages I
object to the above bagatellizing of the complexity of making your
own RPM's. (A thing clever people with knowledge and experience tend
to do).
I think the average linux user of average ability "with substantial
programming knowledge and experience" MIGHT roll a working RPM
successfully on the first try in about an hour or so!
For an average linux user of average ability with NO programming knowledge
and skills a more realistic, and probably optimistic, estimate would be two
to three weeks.
For somebody without programming experience Donny's RPM-HOWTO will probably
be too terse and without enough examples. The Maximum RPM book is excellent
but reading AND digesting the relevant portions alone will take about a week.
Looking at SRPM's is surely to be recommended but for grasping what is
actually happening and why I would recommend the Maximum RPM book.
(and of course a lot of trial and error).
Alexander
(somebody who cannot even program his way into an open paper
bag if his live depended on it, at least not in C/C++)
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Alexander Volovics
Dept of Methodology & Statistics
Maastricht University, Maastricht, NL
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