Re: Creating an rpm from scratch

Sat, 16 Mar 2013 13:27:04 -0700 

On 03/16/2013 03:13 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:

Gordon Messmer wrote:

On 03/15/2013 09:52 AM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
Sounds like NO, there has been progress in documentation since 2.5 days, 
but sounds like it all has to be created by hand in terms of scripts,
spec files, etc. Thanks, but if it hasn't gotten less time consuming in
12-15 years, let it be someone else's time.


I started using rpm and building packages back in '97.  I'm sure that my

inexperience made it more time consuming back then then it should 
have been, but

I definitely think it's less time consuming now than it was.


I saw that you were given one of the links to Fedora's rpm 
documentation.

There's a larger collection organized starting here:

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Category:Package_Maintainers?rd=PackageMaintainers 



With the simple guide here:
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_a_GNU_Hello_RPM_package


The rpmdev tools simplify most of the boilerplate stuff.  mock will 
help you
keep devel packages out of your system, and help ensure various 
quality checks.
There's a package named eclipse-rpm-editor which, if installed, will 
add spec
file support to Eclipse (which will also be installed if it isn't 
currently).



You'll never get completely away from editing a text file (the spec) 
while
working with rpm.  I've worked with other installers, like NSIS, and 
to date
I've never seen any that are notably easier to use than rpm.  If you 
really want

something simpler than rpm, consider:

   ./configure
   make install DESTDIR=/var/tmp/package-buildroot
   cd /var/tmp/package-buildroot
   tar Jcf /var/tmp/package-$(date +%Y%m%d).tar.xz .



Actually I'm spoiled using RPMcreator years ago, it just asked 
questions and did the rest.



But in this case, I'm dealing with people who didn't even have tar and 
make installed, and expect that if I donated the programming I should 
donate support, too. Oh, and they still remind me I haven't made a 
money donation this year.



Downloaded rpm1.0.0.078.i386.rpm

Got dependency: rpmdevtools, so downloaded that and unpacked it to: 
rpmdevtools-6.4, whihc is still in Download directory.

Tried again: rpm -Uvh rpm1*.rpm and still got
[doug@linux1 Downloads]$ sudo rpm -Uvh rpm1*.rpm
error: Failed dependencies:
        rpmdevtools is needed by RPMCreator-1.0-78.i386

so now what?

Thanx for the answer--doug


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Greeley

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