Ok, i don't think so - it is like to tell to linus as to build rpm for an kernel module.........

 But anyway..

On RPM exists many document, two book an obviously the mailing list for the corner case.

- Book :

Maximun RPM

http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/

Red Hat RPM Guide

http://docs.fedoraproject.org/drafts/rpm-guide-en/

Errata of this book

http://foster-johnson.com/rpm.html

For David, in this book is explained the difference between "build dir" and "build root"

- course online

GuruLabs (http://www.gurulabs.com/GURULABS-RPM-LAB/GURULABS-RPM-GUIDE-v1.0.PDF)


- For other distro other Fedora

http://www.mandrivaclub.com/xwiki/bin/view/KB/MandrivaRpmHowTo

- For Fedora

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging/Guidelines

and other in the draft section, other that the presentation to RedHat summit of Tom Spot Colloway
http://spot.fedorapeople.org/Summit2008/




Regards







On Mon, Jun 30, 2008 at 5:42 PM, Rahul Sundaram <sundaram@fedoraproject.org> wrote:
yersinia wrote:
woot,

perhaps David is a new contributor to Fedora but everyone in the world know it as author
of seminal papers, and contributor of the free/libre world.

http://www.dwheeler.com/

Yes, that doesn't change the possibility that a contributor new to Fedora might have missed some reference documentation.

Rahul