Submitted by Ben Cotton on December 5, 2011 - 7:30 am
On Sunday afternoon, David Nalley presented a training session entitled "RPM Packaging for Sysadmins". Although it's technically a new course for LISA '11, it's actually a retooling of a more general packaging class that was offered several years ago. The old course covered Debian and Solaris packaging, but the attendee feedback indicated that the vast majority were only interested in learning RPM.
The course starts with explaining why bother packaging. The traditional autoconf command chain of