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. >