rpmbuild command used to build rpms from rpm SPEC files
rpmbuild is the command used to build rpms from a rpm SPEC file.
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Spec file: File is packed by rpm, but not getting installed in right destination
Rpm -ql is listing the file but the file is not getting installed in the right location of target machine.
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How to ship/include a generated file with ISO?
I am trying to build an ISO where I have some prebuilt RPMS. I have another file which is dynamically generated and I want the ISO to include it and when that same ISO is installed, it should be placed in /usr/bin folder. I know one way is to make a…
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How to install rpm in opt directory
I have created rpm for one of the package. I want to install that rpm in opt directory but by default it gets installed in root directory. I have tried using Prefix in spec file but it's not working.
I have tried rpm -ivh --prefix=/opt as well but…
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Compressing all files inside linux kernel rpm package
My current linux system has kernel-3.10.0-693.21.1.el7.x86_64 installed and now am trying to upgrade it to kernel-5.5.7 which is the latest stable release.
Post compiling the tarball for kernel-5.7.7 obtained from https://www.kernel.org/ I obtained…
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Signing Contents of RPM
I have some SPEC files to build my rpms with rpmbuild.
As i understand, during rpmbuild, the source code is fetched, binaries are compiled, installed to buildroot and packaged as RPM.
Is there a way to sign the binaries during this process.
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Spec file for building .tar.gz as .rpm
I'd like to improve the distribution and versioning of a program I've inherited, which is currently distributed as a .tar.gz file, by building a .rpm for RHEL7 that just extracts the contents to /usr/bin/. The tarball is not small, consisting in…
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RPM package download to use a specific provider
I want to install package A which has a dependency of Package B, and Package B has 2 providers, When I install package A, can we specify in the spec file which provider to be used to download package B when it’s being installed as a dependency
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rpmbuild | specfile | %post | to execute a command or script as part of rpm install
How to execute some commands or scripts immediately after rpm installed and has to be run as part rpm install command.
I wrote a spec file to take back up of some files within directory and tar them.
When I install rpm tar would be copied on file…
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Specify command in spec to uninstall RPM package
I have built an RPM package and to install the package I run
rpm -Uvh --force rpm_package_name.rpm
Is there any command that I can define in spec during rpm build so that it uninstalls the package in single go, just like install works.
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Adding Qt Dependencies to spec file in rpmbuild
I'm using Ubuntu 14.04 and I am updating the rpmbuild spec file of an application that now uses Qt.
The packages that I need are the following:
sudo apt-get build-essential
sudo apt-get install mesa-common-dev -y
sudo apt-get install…
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RPM directory that shouldn't get erased on upgrade
I am trying to build a rpm package for my application. And I would like to not remove a owned directory but keep adding files to it on upgrade. I will also like to remove the directory and all it files on uninstall. How do I achieve this?
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prefix and reloctable rpm package according to an other rpm prefix
I have install sample.rpm in /opt. I want samplw2.rpm find the relocation path of sample.rpm ad install itself in same place. is there any command or macro in spec file which check it befor installation or not?
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How to write a spec file to build an rpm package?
How can I write a spec file for building an rpm package, if I have only 4 tasks?
Place my_file in /usr/local/mydir
Place the configuration file in the rsyslog.d
Place the logrotate file in logrptate.d
Echo "something"…
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rpm: how to allow w/o touching the old package seamless switch between the old and new packages w/ different name
In short, I want to implement seamless switch between the old and new packages with different name. However, I want to achieve this without touching the old package's spec file. Seamless switch includes that the other packages dependent on either…
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RPMBUILD //SOURCES
I'm trying to build a RPM for barnyard2-1.9, but when I attempt it I receive this error. These are the last few lines of the rpmbuild output:
+ /usr/bin/install -d -p…
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