Maximum RPM (RPM)

Rating:
Summary: Crummy
Review: This is the worst computer book I've ever read. It discusses rpm options without telling you how to invoke them. If you want to get lost in a thicket of "if only you knew the name, you wouldn't need to look it up," this is the book for you.

Rating:
Summary: Obsolete
Review: This was probably a good book when it came out, but since then rpm has changed significantly. If Redhat would at least publish a consise list of the changes to the commands, I'd change my rating to 3 or 4 stars. As it is, you cannot use this book to diagnose problem in creating spec files or designing high-quality spec files. Until it is revised, you are better off looking at the man pages and how other people have written spec files.