CentOS - Sep 2012 - tutorial or guide to write RPM Spec file

Hi,

Are there tutorials available in official CentOS documentation for
writing RPM Spec file

Regards

Kaushal

>Are there tutorials available in official CentOS documentation for
>writing RPM Spec file
See this page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package

There are a few pointers you should get used to and after a few you'll be
fine.

Don't build as root, do something like this:

yum install rpm-build redhat-rpm-config rpmdevtools
useradd rpmbuilder
su - rpmbuilder
echo "timestamping = on" >.wgetrc
rpmdev-setuptree

The vim-common package also provides a template spec, but I would suggest
downloading some srpm's and extracting them and looking at the specs they
have.

wget
'http://vault.centos.org/6.3/os/Source/SPackages/postfix-2.6.6-2.2.el6_1.src.rpm'
rpm2cpio postfix-2.6.6-2.2.el6_1.src.rpm |cpio -dim
vi postfix.spec

Look at a few, google the cmds you don't understand...
jlc

On Sun, 23 Sep 2012, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:
> To: CentOS mailing list <centos at centos.org>
> From: Kaushal Shriyan <kaushalshriyan at gmail.com>
> Subject: [CentOS] tutorial or guide to write RPM Spec file
> 
> Hi,
>
> Are there tutorials available in official CentOS documentation for
> writing RPM Spec file
Hi Kaushal.

You might also find the RPM documentation usefull.

http://rpm.org/wiki/Docs#UserDocumentation

I found this guide was very helpfull:

http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/

The bit about signing packages is out of date, it was 
written using PGP, but that is now replaced with GPG.

Apart from that it is a pretty good guide to using RPM, and 
how to build packages as well.

Kind Regards,

Keith

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