packages's Introduction

packages

Custom Software Packaging

Tools for Packaging

$ docker run --name build-el7 -it -v ${HOME}/Workspace:/workspace centos:7
yum update -y && yum install -y epel-release
yum groups install -y  "Development Tools"
## Minimal tools to install
yum install -y gcc rpm-build rpm-devel rpmlint make python bash coreutils diffutils patch rpmdevtools

RPM Dev Tools

Command	Description
rpmdev-setuptree	Create RPM build tree within user's home directory
rpmdev-diff	Diff contents of two archives
rpmdev-newspec	Creates new .spec from template
rpmdev-rmdevelrpms	Find (and optionally remove) "development" RPMs
rpmdev-checksig	Check package signatures using alternate RPM keyring
rpminfo	Print information about executables and libraries
rpmdev-md5	Display the md5sum of all files in an RPM
rpmdev-vercmp	RPM version comparison checker
spectool	Expand and download sources and patches in specfiles
rpmdev-wipetree	Erase all files within dirs created by rpmdev-setuptree
rpmdev-extract	Extract various archives, "tar xvf" style

Useful Commands

# List System macros
rpm --showrc

# Evaluate a macro
$ rpm --eval %{_sharedstatedir}

# List available versions of a package
$ yum --showduplicates list available <package-name>