Ars Technica

Using rpmbuild for simple installation... confused by RPM_BUILD_ROOT variable

I have been tasked with getting our developers to use .rpm packages to deploy their web applications to our RHEL 5 and 6 jboss servers. Currently we drop in .ear files manually, whenever the devs want ...
How-To Geek on MSN

Firefox Nightly is getting easier to install for Linux Fedora and openSUSE users

Mozilla is extending Firefox Nightly support to RPM based systems.

Mozilla brings Firefox Nightly as an RPM package for Linux

Mozilla now offers Firefox Nightly as an RPM package. Installation on Fedora, openSUSE, and RHEL is significantly easier with ...
Ars Technica

weirdness with RPM - cant install a package, 'already installed' - cant uninstall package - 'not isntalled yet'

I was running redhat 7.3 on an old p2 350 as a file server... got a new system so I put my old 1.2 tbird as the file server, put the redhat OS drive in the 1.2 tbird and booted linux fine, kudzu ...
Linux Journal

Using Checkinstall To Build Packages From Source

Checkinstall is a utility that builds a .deb, .rpm or Slackware package from a third party source code tarball. This allows you to introduce such third party software using the standard package ...