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RPM Packaging Guide
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Add "Why would I want to package RPMs?" Section #10

Open maxamillion opened 8 years ago

maxamillion commented 8 years ago

Explain what is good about system packaging and why someone would want to do it.

str8edgedave commented 8 years ago

This should be broken into two areas. An explanation on why packaging is a benefit in the introductory area, and an appendix section on the next steps, "What to do with packaged RPMs" This new section should cover topics such as building your own repos, copr, patch & lifecycle management. A possible advanced topic could be building better packages (eg segmenting into main, -devel, -doc, -debug packages like the kernel) for inclusion in Fedora or EPEL.