rpm – Just another Linux geek

18 April, 202018 April, 2020Fedora, FOSS

Making dnf on Fedora Silverblue a little easier with bash aliases

Fedora Silverblue doesn’t come with dnf because it’s an immutable operating system and uses a special tool called rpm-ostree to layer packages on top instead. Most terminal work is designed […]

18 May, 2014Korora

Decorating (a)kmod packages with modalias info for use with RPM

Originally posted by firnsy at Korora Project news. Whilst developing Pharlap, our utility for easing the installation and removal of drivers, we came across a big hurdle that other distributions […]

2 June, 20124 June, 2012Fedora

Building NVIDIA akmod package for RHEL/CentOS using Fedora and mock

Unfortunately there are no NVIDIA driver packages for RHEL/CentOS available on RPMFusion (that I could find), so this is how I built them. Disclaimer: This is just the way I […]

12 March, 201112 March, 2011Fedora

On becoming a Fedora maintainer

Recently, Rahul Sandaram (Fedora dev and creator of the Omega Fedora Remix) offered to sponsor me to become a Fedora maintainer, which I accepted. A day or so later I […]

15 November, 201027 September, 2011Fedora, FOSS

How to upgrade Fedora (using PreUpgrade)

Coming from a Debian background, upgrading to new releases is second nature. Unfortunately, Fedora doesn’t seem to have it quite as down pat. Nevertheless, it’s possible and works quite well […]

11 November, 20106 March, 2011Fedora, FOSS

Testing yum’s autoremove orphaned deps feature

Yesterday I wrote about yum’s new feature which can automatically remove unused dependencies when a package is uninstalled. Today I got my hands on a suitable build of yum (add […]

10 November, 20106 March, 2011Fedora, FOSS

Yum gets autoremove dependency feature

Coming from a Gentoo/Debian background, one thing that has constantly bugged me on RPM based platforms like Fedora is the lack of decent, reliable dependency removal. It seems so simple […]

25 October, 20106 March, 2011Fedora, FOSS

Encrypted DVDs and Fedora

The well known RPMFusion repository contains a lot of the useful software which Red Hat doesn’t ship by default (for licensing, patent or legal reasons). It is the amalgamation of […]

24 June, 20096 March, 2011Fedora, FOSS

Yum still on the menu?

Update: I’ve tried to post my results back to Seth’s thread but it won’t work, so I’ve emailed him instead. In response to my article comparing Yum and Apt (at […]

19 June, 20096 March, 2011Fedora, FOSS

Having Yum for Breakfast

This week I decided to write a comparative article between Yum and Apt (the package managers). Using Fedora 11 and Ubuntu 9.04, I performed various tests and benchmarked both the […]