RPM Reference Manual

• About this manual
• RPM’s Philosophy

Package Management

Queries and RPM Meta Data

• RPM Tags
• Large File support
• Query formatting

Macro subsystem

• Macro syntax
• Embedded Lua

Package Building

• Build Process
• Spec Syntax
  • Declarative builds
  • Autosetup
  • Dependencies
    • Dependencies Basics
    • More on Dependencies
    • Boolean Dependencies
    • Architecture Dependencies
    • Installation Order
    • Automatic Dependency Generation
  • Install scriptlets
    • Triggers
    • File Triggers
    • Scriptlet Expansion
  • Users and Groups
  • Conditional Builds
  • Relocatable Packages
• Dynamic Spec Generation

Developer Information

API

• Plugin API

Package Format

• RPM v6 file format (DRAFT)
• RPM v4 file format
• RPM v4 signatures and digests
• RPM v3 file format (obsolete)

Documentation

• Write documentation