How to create rpm?

pinga123 · 03-05-2012, 11:41 PM

I m referring below article for creating rpm.
http://rpmbuildtut.wordpress.com/ins...ion-and-setup/
As per the document i will need rpmdevtools and rpmlint to begin with.

However i have yum installed and whenever i run them i get below output.

Code:

# yum install rpmdevtools rpmlint
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
No package rpmdevtools available.
No package rpmlint available.
Nothing to do

However i tried using rpm-devel package.

Code:

# yum install rpm-devel
Setting up Install Process
Parsing package install arguments
Package rpm-devel-4.4.2.3-9.el5.i386 already installed and latest version
Nothing to do

Is rpm-devel and rpmdevtools different as i m not able to execute other commands such as rpmdev-setuptree.

m i heading in right direction?

EricTRA · 03-06-2012, 12:55 AM

Hello,

What distro and version are you using? And are your repositories set up correctly? You might need the epel repositories enabled if you don't have them already. I've just checked on a CentOS 5.7 server and in the base repositories those packages are not available but they are in the EPEL repos. Have a look here with regards to the EPEL repos under CentOS.

Kind regards,

Eric

knudfl · 03-06-2012, 02:03 AM

Quote:

# yum install rpmdevtools rpmlint

Actually you can build a lot of rpm packages, until you
( after years ? ) find one that requires rpmdevtools, rpmlint.

pinga123 · 03-06-2012, 02:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by knudfl

Actually you can build a lot of rpm packages, until you
( after years ? ) find one that requires rpmdevtools, rpmlint.

Didn't get you.
Can you be more specific?

pinga123 · 03-06-2012, 02:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by EricTRA

Hello,

What distro and version are you using? And are your repositories set up correctly? You might need the epel repositories enabled if you don't have them already. I've just checked on a CentOS 5.7 server and in the base repositories those packages are not available but they are in the EPEL repos. Have a look here with regards to the EPEL repos under CentOS.

Kind regards,

Eric

Code:

# lsb_release -a
LSB Version:    :core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.1-ia32:graphics-3.1-noarch
Distributor ID: OracleVMserver
Description:    Oracle VM server release 2.2.0
Release:        2.2.0
Codename:       n/a

Code:

# uname -r
2.6.18-128.2.1.4.9.el5xen

knudfl · 03-06-2012, 03:12 AM

# 4.

Most rpm packages are built from SRC.RPMS.
Only a very few require rpmdevtools, rpmlint. ( BuildRequires ).

Setting up the unprivileged rpms account in /home/<name>/, post #13:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...1-a-766486/#13
That's all. I have never used rpmdevtools, rpmlint.
.

jimtony · 03-06-2012, 03:13 AM

If your software format is rpm.
You just need rpmbuild to build and create rpms.
In fedora,rpmbuild can be used to build and create rpms.

pinga123 · 03-06-2012, 04:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jimtony

If your software format is rpm.
You just need rpmbuild to build and create rpms.
In fedora,rpmbuild can be used to build and create rpms.

but i dont have rpmbuild installed which package should i install ?

Code:

# rpmbuild
-bash: rpmbuild: command not found

..

knudfl · 03-06-2012, 04:43 AM

Quote:

rpmbuild: command not found

# yum install rpm-build

pinga123 · 03-06-2012, 04:55 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by knudfl

# yum install rpm-build

One more issue.

Able to get a distribution where rpmbuild is already there but not able to run rpmdev-setuptree command .
As per the article this command needed for following purpose.
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to...lo_RPM_package
"sets up a RPM build area in your ~/rpmbuild. This directory will contain several subdirectories, for the project source code, RPM configuration files and for the resulting source and binary packages."

Code:

# rpmbuild
rpmbuild: no spec files given for build
# rpmdev-setuptree
bash: rpmdev-setuptree: command not found

I have below rpm command in this distribution.

Code:

# rpm
rpm        rpm2cpio   rpmbuild   rpmdb      rpmdiff    rpmgraph   rpmlint    rpmquery   rpmsign    rpmverify

new distribution details

Code:

# lsb_release -a
LSB Version:    :core-3.1-ia32:core-3.1-noarch:graphics-3.1-ia32:graphics-3.1-noarch
Distributor ID: EnterpriseEnterpriseServer
Description:    Enterprise Linux Enterprise Linux Server release 5.2 (Carthage)
Release:        5.2
Codename:       Carthage

New query:
will the rpm developed on this distribution work on other rpm supported systems?

knudfl · 03-06-2012, 05:13 AM

Quote:

"sets up a RPM build area in your ~/rpmbuild.

That's what these simple commands do
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...1-a-766486/#13

( The rpmbuild folder can have any name.
In the above link it's /home/<name>/rpms/ ).

And by the way : You are not supposed to be root, when you run 'rpmbuild'.
All package creation should be done as ordinary user.

.

Satyaveer Arya · 03-06-2012, 05:59 AM

Quote:

will the rpm developed on this distribution work on other rpm supported systems?

Ofcourse.

pinga123 · 03-06-2012, 06:05 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by knudfl

That's what these simple commands do
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...1-a-766486/#13

( The rpmbuild folder can have any name.
In the above link it's /home/<name>/rpms/ ).

And by the way : You are not supposed to be root, when you run 'rpmbuild'.
All package creation should be done as ordinary user.

.

Created new user and now trying to create file in /home/usrname/.rpmmacros
with below contents .

Code:

%_topdir        $HOME/rpms
%_builddir      %{_topdir}/BUILD
%_rpmdir        %{_topdir}/RPMS
%_sourcedir     %{_topdir}/SOURCES
%_specdir       %{_topdir}/SPECS
%_srcrpmdir     %{_topdir}/SRPMS
%_tmppath       %{_topdir}/tmp

But whenever i execute the file it says.

Code:

$ sh .rpmmacros
.rpmmacros: line 1: fg: no job control
.rpmmacros: line 2: fg: no job control
.rpmmacros: line 3: fg: no job control
.rpmmacros: line 4: fg: no job control
.rpmmacros: line 5: fg: no job control
.rpmmacros: line 6: fg: no job control
.rpmmacros: line 7: fg: no job control

Not so sure about what m i doing

knudfl · 03-06-2012, 06:35 AM

Quote:

But whenever I execute the file it says.

'.rpmmacros' : It's a text file. Never to be run or seen. ( Hidden file.)

Please do :
1) touch .rpmmacros ( creates an empty file, if not already present.)
2) gedit .rpmmacros
.... then copy / paste the text into the file,
and edit <username> to actual user.

arizonagroovejet · 03-06-2012, 02:26 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pinga123

will the rpm developed on this distribution work on other rpm supported systems?

Quote:

Originally Posted by Satyaveer Arya

Ofcourse.

No, not 'ofcourse'. It depends on what's in the rpm. For example if the rpm contains binaries that a dynamically linked to shared libraries that aren't in the rpm then the rpm is only going to work on other systems which have the same versions (or compatible) of those libraries in the same locations. If the rpm depends on other packages then the rpm will only work on other systems where those packages are available.

I use SLED and openSUSE. Some rpms built for openSUSE will work on SLED but some won't. It very much depends on the rpm and which version of openSUSE it was built for and which version of SLED you're trying to use it on. I once found some software that was only available as an rpm which it was indicated was for use on RedHat. As it happened it worked on the version of SLED I was using, but there was no guarantee that it would.

If you find yourself wanting to create an rpm from a bunch of arbitrary files rather than from a source tarball check out
https://www.linuxquestions.org/quest...0/#post3680054