I have a spec file to build an rpm package, in my %install section I have this: %install install -m 700 foo/bar/filesToCopy/. $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/ The filesToCopy folder is a tree exactly how the pa...

Is there any way to extract the spec file from rpm package ( I have only RPM file ) not by rpm --scripts -qp my-great-app-1.1.2.rpm ( this syntax not get the spec file only the scripts from ...

Is it possible to make rpmbuild to preserve symlinks on packaging? The current behavior is to create copies of files, which I would like to avoid.

I have an RPM Spec file, building on rhel7 with rpmbuild, where I would like to define the Version with a script. I read here http://www.techrepublic.com/article/rpmproc-spec-file/ , That I can d...

The concrete example being I have lots of specfiles with Source0: or other Source lines containing macros. How can I have these macros expanded without actually starting a build on the specfile or ...

I have created a python application in which I would like to ship .so and some binary files in the final RPM package. After long reading I found a way to add binaries/ image and other data files in...

is it possible to pass parameters to rpmbuild to fill user defined variables that are called inside the spec file? Example: The user defined variable %{foobar} which is called in the .spec file (...

I am creating my first package using RPM on ubuntu machine.But I am getting so many difficulties.I tried so many commands to install rpmdevtools using "yum" but it is giving error as There are not ...

rpmbuild can autodetect dependencies by looking up shared libraries required by binaries included in the package and, while this is a good think almost every time, there are time when it is undesir...

Name: My Software Version: 1.0.5 Release: 1 Summary: This is my software Not sure if anyone has tried this before or if it is easy, but: A spec file has two unique indicators for its version: ...

I'm working on a packaging system that packages things in RPMs. I have a case where it would be very convenient to specify that I want a directory and every file and subdirectory under it included ...

Maybe it's very stupid question but I can't find out the answer. I've neverr tried to write a spec file for rpm package until today. I found an example of spec and I see a lot of %{__install} think...

I try to pack some map files for our geoserver in an internal rpm package. For the build part, this is just to copy the files. I think this works as expected. But it takes terribly long to pack tho...

I am adding some sources to an existing rpm .spec file by URL and don't have them downloaded yet. Is there a way to get rpmbuild to download the sources rather than doing it manually?

I want to build a rpm of my project automated. So when I push a new tag to my git repo, it should build a rpm from this tag revision. My problem is, how can I prep the sources and specify it in the...

Background. $ rpmbuild --version RPM version 4.3.3 I am working on a spec file that needs to process a list of files in multiple scriptlets. DRY (don't repeat youself) has me defining the list on...

Is it possible to have a separate %install section for a subpackage in a spec file? For example, files can be specified for the main package as %files and for the subpackage like this: %files ...

I need to build a RPM, with the sole purpose of installing a few fonts. I have read several tutorials about that, however everyone seems to suggests something different and I haven't been able to f...

I am trying a sample rpm package with single file. In my source folder I have python_test_rpm.tar.gz which contains only one python script file. But, the file is not a valid python script. All ...

My spec files path looks like below : /opt/OV /opt/OV/NonOV /opt/OV/NonOV/ABCD /opt/OV/NonOV/ABCD/ABC /opt/OV/NonOV/ABCD/ABC/Test1 /opt/OV/NonOV/ABCD/ABC/Test1/test1.txt /opt/OV/NonOV/ABCD/ABC/Te...

Currently I am trying to install a rpm secured_soft_2.0.0.rpm and i am unable to install it as we already have secured_soft_1.3.0 installed. Requirement is that we need to have both the versions...

I use this spec file to use RPM files Name: pack-agent Version: 1.0 Release: 1%{?dist} Summary: Linux Agent installation script Group: Utilities License: license Source0: pack-agent-1.0.tar.gz Bui...

rpm created using spec file will create directory "directory1" and all files in /var/lib/directory1. For another use case i want to create another directory in "/var/lib" which should be a symlink...

I want to create simple RPM file with many small files. [root@laptop rpm]# tree . ├── BUILD ├── BUILDROOT ├── RPMS ├── SOURCES │   └── some_agent-1.0.tar.gz ├── SPECS │   ├── kernel.spec │   └── k...

I see no uninstall section in RPM spec documentation. I do see preun and postun. Is there uninstall phase? What exactly happens during uninstall phase? Basing on %files section, a list of files i...