When I looked through the rpm build doco on the web, it seemed that all the instructions largely focussed on compiling binaries prior to packaging in an RPM. What if all you want to do is package a single file (eg an initialisation script) into an RPM for distribution with…
To unpack the contents of an SRPM, make changes, then re-package it, follow the below steps 1) Install rpmbuild yum install rpmbuild 2) Install the srpm rpm -ivh http://server/package-1.0.1.src.rpm This will install source into ~/rpmbuild/SOURCE/package-1.0.1.tar.gz Spec file into…
If you need to, as a once-off, disable specific repos (e.g. if the version of a packages you need are in a lower-priority repo), or if you need to enable a specific repo (which is disabled by default), you cna use the below. yum install --disablerepo="base,epel,…
It appears that when using pulp (http://www.pulpproject.org/) to synchronise and manage yum repositories, pulp categorises a repository with the following in mind OS Major Release Number (E.g. CentOS 7) OS Minor Release number (e.g. CentOS 7.2) These are stored under the release number, e.…
Useful rpm commands rpm -qa | grep [string] Will show if the RPM you specify (in the string) is installed rpm -qf [/path/somefile] will show which package provides the specified file rpm -ql [packagename] will show all files contained in the installed package specified rpm -qlp [package.rpm] will list…