Re: [CentOS] How to write RPM spec

On Wed, Feb 18, 2015 at 09:08:52AM -0500, James B. Byrne wrote:

If you have set up an RPM build server then you should have installed the rpmbuild and rpmdevtools packages. If you have installed the latter then you can use vi (vim/gvim) to automatically create an empty spec template file simply by opening any new file name ending in '.spec'. It will look like this:

Rather than relying on vim to do this, you can also use 'rpmdev-newspec' to create a new spec file, which has options to automatically set up packages for Perl, Python, PHP (etc.) modules, system libraries or a really minimal simple package. Read the man page for 'rpmdev-newspec'.