How to modify an rpm package using rpmrebuild | Linux Today

How to modify an rpm package using rpmrebuild

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Egidio Docile
Jun 7, 2018

Rpm is one of the most advanced Gnu/Linux package manager. Created by Red Hat, it is used in many distributions, as for example Fedora and derivatives like Rhel and CentOS. In this tutorial we will learn how to use rpmrebuild, a very powerful tool which let us modify an existing rpm package without having to rebuild it from source code.

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Egidio Docile

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