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how to make rpm in linux
Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 7:02 am
by shaz
i've developed a small applcation in linux.
how can i make rpm of this application .
Re:how to make rpm in linux
Posted: Wed Apr 21, 2004 3:00 pm
by chris
I'm guessing "man rpm", but I don't use RedHat.
Re:how to make rpm in linux
Posted: Thu Apr 22, 2004 7:39 pm
by creichen
Hi,
making rpms is a little painful. IIRC, you usually want to run
[tt]rpm -ba specfile.spec[/tt]
where `[tt]specfile.spec[/tt]' is a so-called spec file (have a look at the FreeSCI one if you'd like an example). RPM will then seek some .tar.bz2 file somewhere on your system and try to configure and build ('make') it-- the package name is specified in the spec file, but the precise location is usually not where you'd like it to be.
You can override that location by specifying
[tt] %_topdir /home/login/tmp/[/tt]
(or something similar) in your [tt] ~/.rpmmacros[/tt]. You will also need a couple of directories in there ([tt]RPMS[/tt], [tt]SRPMS[/tt], [tt]SOURCES[/tt], [tt]BUILD[/tt]) which it will complain about if they're missing. One of them ([tt]SOURCES[/tt]) will have to contain the tar.bz2 package you want to build. Make sure that your spec file specifies all the binaries, libraries, and extra data you want to ship-- [tt]freesci-0.3.4a_*.rpm[/tt] had a rather embarrassing bug in that the `[tt]freesci[/tt]' executable was missing, for example...
-- Christoph