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    Building an rpm which contains a single file

    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…

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    • linux
    • rpm
    • yum
    • rpmbuild

    Useful pulp workflow commands

    These are some scribble notes helpful for understanding and managing pulp, the Redhat repository manager There are many many more things one can do with pulp (snapshots, non-rpm content, etc), but I'll just stick to the basics here. Services, start, stop etc Important: pulp_resource_manager and pulp_…

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    • pulp
    • linux
    • yum

    yum - once off enable or disable repos

    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,…

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    • rpm
    • yum

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