Are there tutorials available in official CentOS documentation for writing RPM Spec file

See this page: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package

There are a few pointers you should get used to and after a few you'll be fine.

Don't build as root, do something like this:

yum install rpm-build redhat-rpm-config rpmdevtools useradd rpmbuilder su - rpmbuilder echo "timestamping = on" >.wgetrc rpmdev-setuptree

The vim-common package also provides a template spec, but I would suggest downloading some srpm's and extracting them and looking at the specs they have.

wget 'http://vault.centos.org/6.3/os/Source/SPackages/postfix-2.6.6-2.2.el6_1.src....' rpm2cpio postfix-2.6.6-2.2.el6_1.src.rpm |cpio -dim vi postfix.spec

Look at a few, google the cmds you don't understand... jlc

On Sun, 23 Sep 2012, Kaushal Shriyan wrote:

To: CentOS mailing list centos@centos.org From: Kaushal Shriyan kaushalshriyan@gmail.com Subject: [CentOS] tutorial or guide to write RPM Spec file

Hi,

Are there tutorials available in official CentOS documentation for writing RPM Spec file

Hi Kaushal.

You might also find the RPM documentation usefull.

http://rpm.org/wiki/Docs#UserDocumentation

I found this guide was very helpfull:

http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm-snapshot/

The bit about signing packages is out of date, it was written using PGP, but that is now replaced with GPG.

Apart from that it is a pretty good guide to using RPM, and how to build packages as well.

Kind Regards,

Keith

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