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Contents
Index
An Introduction to Package Management
Subsections
What are Packages, and Why Manage Them?
Enter the Package
Advantages of a Package
Manage Your Packages, or They Will Manage You
Packages Lead Active Lives
Keeping Track of Packages
Package Management: How to Do It?
Ancestors of RPM
RPP
PMS
PM
RPM Version 1
The RPM of Today: Version 2
RPM Design Goals
Make it easy to get packages on and off the system
Make it easy to verify a package was installed correctly
Make it easy for the package builder
Make it start with the original source code
Make it work on different computer architectures
What's in a package?
RPM's Package Labels
Component #1: The Software's Name
Component #2: The Software's Version
Component #3: The Package's Release
Labels And Names: Similar, But Distinct
Package-wide Information
Per-file Information
Let's Get Started
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