This is example how to build RPM package from source package (libaio-0.3.105-2.src.rpm). Note gcc, make and rpm-build (and dependent) packages must be already installed on your system. # rpm -ivh libaio-0.3.105-2.src.rpm # cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/ # rpmbuild --target i386 liba...
It has been also known to work with Slackware, SuSe, Mandrake and Gentoo as well, as per the official documentation.In this post, I will only focus on Red Hat and Debian based distributions, and show how to build a RPM or DEB package from the source using CheckInstall....
BuildRoot: ~/rpmbuild/# Build with the following syntax:# rpmbuild --target noarch -bb utils.spec Comment lines are ignored by therpmbuildprogram. I always like to add a comment to this section that contains the exact syntax of therpmbuildcommand required to create the package. The Summary...
Building a source RPM will compile the source code of a particular package into an executable binary on your machine. This is useful when there is no working binary RPM for the current kernel or Red Hat Enterprise Linux version you are using. A source RPM can usually be identified by its ...
RPM build errors: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.84096 (%build) Not quite sure how to go about this so any help appreciated. Thanks Duncan Subject Views Written By Posted How to build a binary rpm from source with patches
In this tutorial we'll see how to create an rpm package starting from an application source code. The application we will package isfeh, a simple command line image viewer: it is quite small and has few dependencies. Before starting to build our first package, there are, however, some ess...
Software to build the package. Source code to package. SPEC file to build the RPM. Installing the required software The following packages need to be installed to build the RPM package: $sudodnfinstall-yrpmdevtools rpmlint After installingrpmdevtools, create the file tree you need to build RPM...
In this article we will introduce you to alien, a tool that converts between different Linux package formats, with .rpm to .deb (and vice versa) being the most common usage.
Packaging software with RPM—whether it's your own or someone else's open source application—may look intimidating at first, but with a little bit of patience, you will get there in no time. As you encounter issues, you will also find proper ways to improve your code. Below are some ...
Source0: %{name}-%{version}.%{release}.tar.gz Buildroot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}/%{version} Buildarch: x86_64 %description My test software/package to land my newly built application and scripts. %prep # Create the RPM from the tar file ...