For software development, projects are built through makefile. After building, I can run binary program. rpm is more convenient. Is there some tool that can build rpm?
Thanks!
Regards
Andrew
6 thoughts on - How To Build Rpm
There are numerous articles that can be found through google that describe the process.
I personally find it easiest to find a rpm with a structure that’s similar to what I want to create, and use that spec file as a pattern.
You will want to install rpmdevtools on your computer so you can build and test rpms as a user instead of root.
Hi Andrew, if you are expecting a program or tool that can automatically create an RPM for you then no but if you understand processes like
./configure, make and make install then in a lot of cases creating your own rpms is reasonably easy. As a start check out things like rpmbuild and mock https://wiki.CentOS.org/HowTos/SetupRpmBuildEnvironment
You need to learn how to write a spec file, as another person suggested, grabbign one from a similar rpm to use as a template makes this much easier.
Other than that I highly recommend mock, which you can get from the EPEL
repository. Google for “fedora mock” for more info about mock.
Peter
Rather than googling for articles, which unless you have the experience already to filter the chaff from the wheat, here’s a link the an article I
wrote a little while back.
It’ll take you through building a minimal package, fedora guidelines (which even for personal/internal stuff can help keep clean easier to maintain spec files), usage of mock for clean builds and repo creation.
6 thoughts on - How To Build Rpm
There are numerous articles that can be found through google that describe the process.
I personally find it easiest to find a rpm with a structure that’s similar to what I want to create, and use that spec file as a pattern.
You will want to install rpmdevtools on your computer so you can build and test rpms as a user instead of root.
Hi Andrew, if you are expecting a program or tool that can automatically create an RPM for you then no but if you understand processes like
./configure, make and make install then in a lot of cases creating your own rpms is reasonably easy. As a start check out things like rpmbuild and mock https://wiki.CentOS.org/HowTos/SetupRpmBuildEnvironment
It can also be useful to check out source RPMS to see how other rpms have been created. https://wiki.CentOS.org/HowTos/SetupRpmBuildEnvironment
You need to learn how to write a spec file, as another person suggested, grabbign one from a similar rpm to use as a template makes this much easier.
Other than that I highly recommend mock, which you can get from the EPEL
repository. Google for “fedora mock” for more info about mock.
Peter
Rather than googling for articles, which unless you have the experience already to filter the chaff from the wheat, here’s a link the an article I
wrote a little while back.
https://www.hogarthuk.com/?q=node/11
It’ll take you through building a minimal package, fedora guidelines (which even for personal/internal stuff can help keep clean easier to maintain spec files), usage of mock for clean builds and repo creation.
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Detailed guidelines to create a RPM:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package
In addition to the above’s excellent instructions, I’d also like to point out these:
http://rpm-guide.readthedocs.io/en/latest/