Chapter 5. Additional resources about RPM packaging

This section provides references to various topics related to RPMs, RPM packaging, and RPM building. Some of these are advanced and extend the introductory material included in this documentation.

Red Hat Software Collections Overview - The Red Hat Software Collections offering provides continuously updated development tools in latest stable versions.

Red Hat Software Collections - The Packaging Guide provides an explanation of Software Collections and details how to build and package them. Developers and system administrators with basic understanding of software packaging with RPM can use this Guide to get started with Software Collections.

Mock - Mock provides a community-supported package building solution for various architectures and different Fedora or RHEL versions than has the build host.

RPM Documentation - The official RPM documentation.

Fedora Packaging Guidelines - The official packaging guidelines for Fedora, useful for all RPM-based distributions.