Distribution Of Commercial RPM
Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this.
Is there a location to upload paid for RPM for distrubution, ie a store for CentOS?
Is there a discription of how to create your own RPM repository for distrubution?
What about updates of these RPM?
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Not that I’m aware of.
This could be documented a little better… You should create a GPG key for rpm signing:
https://gist.github.com/fernandoaleman/1376720
After building rpm packages, use “rpm –addsign” to sign them.
A yum repository is simply a web-accessible directory, typically with a
“packages” and a “source” sub-directory. Move your signed packages there, and then run “createrepo_c /path/to/dir”. createrepo_c is a faster version of the createrepo tool, which does the same thing.
The first package you want to build is probably a “release” package for your repository:
http://sbr600blog.blogspot.com/2012/03/how-to-create-repository-release-rpm.html
You can also sign your repo metadata:
https://blog.packagecloud.io/eng/2014/11/24/howto-gpg-sign-verify-rpm-packages-yum-repositories/
You can put updates in the same repo, or a separate repo, whichever you prefer. Just copy them and run “createrepo_c” again. When clients run an “update” they’ll refresh their repo information and update to newer packages.