Features
For a system administrator performing software installation and maintenance, the use of package management rather than manual building has advantages such as simplicity, consistency and the ability for these processes to be automated and non-interactive.
A typical RPM repository (the place where the packages are made available publicly) contains thousands of free applications.
Features of RPM include:
- RPM packages can be cryptographically verified with GPG and MD5
- Original source archive(s) (e.g. .tar.gz, .tar.bz2) are included in SRPMs, making verification easier
- PatchRPMs and DeltaRPMs, the RPM equivalent of a patch file, can incrementally update RPM-installed software
- Automatic build-time dependency evaluation.
Read more about this topic: RPM Package Manager
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