Development:RPM

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Contents 1 Configuring your system to build RPM's 1.1 Install the RPM build tools 1.1.1 Fedora 1.1.2 CentOS 5.x 1.2 Create a build user 1.3 Create the RPM directory structure 1.3.1 CentOS 5.x and Fedora 7 and earlier 1.3.2 Fedora 8

Configuring your system to build RPM's

The following provides instructions on installing the RPM build tools on your system.

Install the RPM build tools

Fedora

# yum install rpmdevtools

CentOS 5.x

The following steps have been tested on CentOS 5.3.

# yum install gcc-c++ redhat-rpm-config rpm-build
# wget http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/rpmdevtools-5.3-2.el5.noarch.rpm
# rpm -i rpmdevtools-5.3-1.el5.noarch.rpm

Create a build user

# useradd build -m -password build

Create the RPM directory structure

Now we create the RPM build directory structure under or build user account.

# su - build

CentOS 5.x and Fedora 7 and earlier

$ fedora-buildrpmtree

Fedora 8

$ rpmdev-setuptree

This creates the following directories.

rpmbuild
    ->BUILD
    ->RPMS
    ->SOURCES
    ->SPECS
    ->SRPMS