On Wed, 2015-08-12 at 21:53 -0700, Joseph Areeda wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm finding myself in the situation where it would be nice to be able to 
> package our apps or backport newer versions of some apps to work with 
> modules on SL6.
> 
> I've found lots of things on the web that are either too single minded 
> or incomprehensible.
> 
> If you remember how you learned to create RPMs, I'd appreciate some 
> advice on how to get going.  Good books, tutorials or websites.  The 
> reference documentation is NOT a good place to start, necessary, but not 
> a good cover to cover read, at least not yet.
> 
> We have people in the collaboration that can do it but they are so 
> overwhelmed only critical things get done.  It would be nice if I could 
> do things that are important to me.
> 
> Thanks,
> Joe

I found this useful when I started learning quite a few years ago:

https://www.gurulabs.com/downloads/GURULABS-RPM-LAB/GURULABS-RPM-GUIDE-v1.0.PDF

And as someone else mentioned, the information on the Fedora
project page is also extremely useful.

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