Thanks, Jean-Michael, Phil, Mark,

I appreciate the links.  I now have some serious reading to do, and some 
decent airport/airplane hanging around time coming up to do it.

Best,
Joe


On 08/13/2015 02:25 AM, Mark Whidby wrote:
> 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.
>