RPM Package Maintenance - Best Practices and Challenges

Explore the daily challenges and responsibilities of RPM package maintainers in this 35-minute conference talk from DevConf.CZ 2023. Dive into the intricacies of maintaining packages with thousands of dependencies, learn strategies for updating without breaking other components, and understand the differences between maintaining packages for cutting-edge distributions like Fedora and enterprise-level systems like RHEL. Discover how software developers can optimize their code for easier packaging, making life simpler for maintainers. Gain insights into the world of Linux distribution package management, suitable for both beginners and experienced developers, with no prior RPM packaging knowledge required.

Bread and butter of RPM package maintainers - DevConf.CZ 2023