Package management with RPM
Miscellanous hints
In 1997 I had enough from the mess on my computer and looked for a
reasonable package management software. After poking around a little
bit with dpkg from Debian I found rpm from RedHat and stayed
with it since then.
What is most fascinating with rpm is the possibility to build my
own packages and distribute them among different computers.
Unfortunately this is not always well documented so there are many
features of the system that are not used because they are simply not
known.
Recently I stumbled across such a tool in the package rpm-build
(cpanflute), that makes it really easy to generate a new RPM package from a perl module.