The DICE Software Distribution Team

The Software Distribution team is part of the Infrastructure Group.

Remit

• Provide tools and assistance for software building and packaging
• Provide software repositories (in source and packaged forms)
• Provide technologies for software submission and distribution

Members

• Tim Colles
• Alastair Scobie (leader)

Documents

• Softdist team FAQ
• Tools for Building and Packaging DICE Software -
  the recommended way to build and package DICE software. [bib]
• Ed Uni RedHat distribution mirror - look for source RPMs here first.
• An rpm HOWTO page
• Maximum RPM (LaTeX, Postscript) - the canonical hand-holding guide to RPM. Slightly out of date in places.
• freshrpms.net has a crash course in RPM building with example spec files. It touches on some stuff which is out of date in the Maximum RPM book.

• Team plan 2005 Q1/Q2

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