I'v been asked this question a few times over the last year or so, so I thought I would explain some of why you might see some issues on a Fedora or Red Hat Enterprise Linux system (or any other Linux distribution that uses prelinked binaries) when trying to track …

So the RPM Query (rq) tool that I inherited as 'srpm' from Stew Benedict back in the day at Mandriva is now on fedorahosted,org. Unfortunately, it's missing history because I had a dickens of a time trying to extract it from my existing svn repo (I got it so …

So I've taken it upon myself to learn Python, which is something I've wanted to do for a while. I usually write code in PHP or shellscript, with the odd thing in Perl every once in a while (but I'm not a real big fan of perl and I don't …

I better post this before I forget about it. One of the issues I had today was getting corp3/x86_64 installed in a chroot with Mandriva 2009.0 as the host. Of course, the db4 version had changed, so I had to take advantage of some conversion tools. urpmi is …

Well, I'm no longer a virgin to the Mandriva build system. I've been using some tools, like iurt, on the secteam buildbox for a while now, but I've not had the need to use repsys or mdvsys. So I started playing with them yesterday. For starters, someone needs to make …

Today's tip over at TechRepublic is Obtaining file information with RPM. Gives a bit of an overview of some of the commands you can use with rpm, regardless of which frontend you use (urpmi, apt, yum, etc.).