In the first part of this pair, we built .deb packages for Debian and Ubuntu. Now it is the Red Hat family’s turn — RHEL, Fedora, Rocky, AlmaLinux, and, by extension, openSUSE: we will create .rpm packages from scratch, from the spec file to our own dnf repository, covering rpmbuild, rpmlint, mock, and GPG signing. How RPM works Unlike … Read more
In 2017, Microsoft had just released SQL Server on Linux. The shortcut at the time was to paste the SLES 12 .repo into Leap 42.2 and run setup. Nine years later, the engine is the same — … Read more
Samba 4 is still the free AD implementation: LDAP, Kerberos, DNS, and SYSVOL in the same process. In 2017, this post provisioned 4.7.0 on Leap 42.3. In 2026, the official wiki and Leap 15.6 speak the same language — samba-tool — … Read more
