In order to produce a quality Gnu/Linux distribution based on RPM, you
need some tools which will facilitate the maintenance of the RPM
packages you are maintainer of. This is the aim of `rpmmon'.
For that purpose, the first task performed by rpmmon is to monitor what
has been announced on Freshmeat, and try to guess if the package in the
distro you're developing is older.
Later on, this tool has grown to support additional features:
- get the list of packages you're responsible for, either in a static
oriented way (a local file) or more dynamically (an URL, for example
the results of a CGI script from the QA of your distro's company)
- hence, provide an easy (e.g. command-line) interface to quickly know
who's maintainer of a given package
- reversely, provide an easy interface to know what packages a given
person is responsible for
- try to find automatically on Freshmeat the good project page going
along a given RPM package
- runs rpmlint on your packages (rpmlint is a rpm correctness checker)