RPM BUild

[Ragni Singh]

Hello, what is the procedure and or how do you build a rpm. I'm not talking about install,remove, query rpm.

I was asked this in a interview and I had no idea. Thanks and I will assign points.

[Ivan Ferreira · Accepted solution]

I could understand that question in two ways:

Build an source rpm using rpmbuild --rebuild command.

Creating your own rpm package. See:

http://erizo.ucdavis.edu/~dmk/notes/RPMs/Creating_RPMs.html
http://download1.sw-soft.com/Plesk/Plesk7.5/Doc/plesk-7.5r-sdk-html/docs/plesk_modules/unix/ch11.html

[Vipulinux]

Hi
In order to create an rpm for tar.gz do:
'rpmbuild -ta urfile.tar.gz'

Hope thsi helps.
Thanks

[Ajay Agarwal]

To build an RPM package, you need to write an input file for RPM, called a spec file, which tells RPM how to build and package your software.
Then place the files/binaries to be packaged at specific location and then use rpm -ba cmd to build rpm.

check the following url:

http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-rpm1/