www.rpm.org

This site aims to bring you the latest and most up to date information on the RPM software packaging tool which is taking the world by storm.

Status

Resources

Other useful RPM-related links include:

• Listing of platforms on which RPM is known to run
• RPM related software
• Rpmfind and rpm2html, very powerful rpm indexing and searching tools.
• An RPM-TODO list
• RPM Mailing List and newgroup info

Development

• Developement snapshots
• CVS info
• Bugzilla, bug tracker for Red Hat, inluding RPM

Documentation

There are several documents on RPM available. The best of these is Maximum RPM, a book by Ed Bailey. It's now available in hardback and is 442 pages long and includes a quick reference card. The book covers everything from general RPM usage to building your own RPMs to programming with rpmlib. You can download the compressed file of it in PostScript or LaTeX .

Developer docs
• RPM HOWTO. Also available in a Japanese version and a Chinese (Big5 Encoded) version.
• RPM Version Changes, a document that describes the important changes in RPM between current versions and what is documented in Maximum RPM.
• Changes in RPM 3.0, a whitepaper by Jeff Johnson on the changes in RPM 3.0

User docs

• Red Hat Linux 6.0 Install Manual, includes some chapters on Using rpm, and using Gnorpm