There were previous discussions about RPM on this list awhile back. I added some RPM tricks to the Wiki. RPM in itself is a trick -- its benefits are grand, and building a working RPM is the work of chaos and magic. 8^) I've been putting undocumented tricks for getting things done with RPM that aren't anywhere else.
http://www.uvm.org/vague/wiki/index.php/RPM:Tricks If anybody else has some undocumented nuggets they want to share, please do so. Feel free to add other notes for other packaging frameworks to the Wiki. I don't prefer RPM in anyway, I have to use it at work(tm). /a
