Editing Packaging madagascar (section)

==RPM==
To make the RPMs, it is a good idea to first create a user just for this, i.e. <tt>makerpm</tt>. Then, install dependencies and set up. As root:

<bash>
yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum -y install rpmdevtools rpmlint 
</bash>

Log in as <tt>makerpm</tt>. Type: <tt>rpmdev-setuptree</tt> to create the <tt>~/rpmbuild</tt> directory. Place the [http://rsf.svn.sourceforge.net/viewvc/rsf/trunk/admin/m8r-fedora15.spec?view=markup spec file] in <tt>~/rpmbuild/SPECS</tt> , then cd to that directory and run:

<bash>
rpmbuild -ba m8r-fedora15.spec
</bash>

Then, harvest the RPM from <tt>~/rpmbuild/RPMS/$arch</tt> and the SRPM from <tt>~/rpmbuild/SRPMS/</tt> .

If you want a log of the entire process, use something like:

<bash>
rpmbuild -ba m8r-fedora15.spec |& tee ~/log_rpm.asc
</bash>

If you want to make other RPM files, you may find useful to run

<bash>
rpmlint yourfile.spec
</bash>

Some warnings are OK. If you want to debug your experiments, you can comment the contents of the prep, build or clean sections in the spec file. For prep and build, you must have executed it uncommented at least once.

You may be able to QC the build with <tt>mock</tt>. For this, run as root:

<bash>
yum -y install mock
useradd -G mock makerpm
</bash>

Then run it with <tt>mock -r fedora-15-x86_64 rebuild path_to_source_RPM </tt>.

The contents of the RPM package can be examined with

<bash>
rpm2cpio file.rpm | cpio -ivd
</bash>

[https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package Fedora's guide to creating RPM packages] constitutes excellent further reading on the topic of making RPMs.