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 have a .src.rpm file, you can rebuild it on your local system using rpmbuild --rebuild /tmp/mypackage-1.0.0-1.src.rpm This will extrack the source files from the file and rebuild it using the instructions in the spec file.…