Create RPM Package On Ubuntu
Table of Contents
1 What is RPM
RPM is a package management system, The name RPM variously refers to the .rpm file fromat. RPM was intended primarily for GNU/Linux distributions, ex: Fedora, Meego and openSUSE.
2 How to create RPM package on ubuntu
2.1 Prepare
- install apm on ubuntu:
#aptitude install rpm
- make rpmbuild directory:
#mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES ~/rpmbuild/SPECS
- enter into SOURCES directory:
#cd ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES
- get hello word souce code:
#wget http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/hello/hello-2.8.tar.gz
2.2 Write hello-2.8.spec file for the rpm package, and saved into SPECS
Summary: The "Hello World" program from GNU
Name: hello
Version: 2.8
Release: 1%{?dist}
Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
License: GPLv3+
Group: Development/Tools
Requires(post): info
Requires(preun): info
%description
The "Hello World" program, done with all bells and whistles of a proper FOSS
project, including configuration, build, internationalization, help files, etc.
%prep
%setup -q
%build
%configure
make %{?_smp_mflags}
%install
%make_install
%find_lang %{name}
rm -f %{buildroot}/%{_infodir}/dir
%post
/sbin/install-info %{_infodir}/%{name}.info %{_infodir}/dir || :
%preun
if [ $1 = 0] ; then
/sbin/install-info --delete %{_infodir}/%{name}.info %{_infodir}/dir || :
fi
%files -f %{name}.lang
%doc AUTHORS ChangeLog COPYING NEWS README THANKS TODO
%{_mandir}/man1/hello.1.gz
%{_infodir}/%{name}.info.gz
%{_bindir}/hello
%changelog
* Tue Sep 06 2011 The Coon of Ty <Ty@coon.org> 2.8-1
- Initial version of the package
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