Building RPMs and setting up a YUM repository

• RPM - RedHat Package Manager
• YUM - YellowDog Updater, Modified

E. Frank Ball III

e@fb3.us

North Bay Linux Users Group - NBLUG.org

Preparing to build RPMS

• How to create an RPM package (Fedora Project Wiki)
• sudo yum install @development-tools fedora-packager
• rpmdev-setuptree
• creates
  • ~/.rpmmacros
  • ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/
  • ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/
  • ~/rpmbuild/BUILD/
  • ~/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/
  • ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/
  • ~/rpmbuild/SRPMS/

Building RPMs

• cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/
• rpmbuild -ba <package.spec>

Creating a YUM repository

• yum install createrepo
• mkdir -p 6Client/x86_64/repodata
• mkdir -p 6Client/x86_64/RPMS
• Put RPMs in RPMS directory (see above)
• createrepo /full/path/to/repo/6Client/x86_64
• Create repo file

repo file

[efball-RHEL-repo]
name=Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux - $basearch
baseurl=http://efball.com/linux/repo/$releasever/$basearch
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
priority=5
# gpgkey=http://efball.com/efball.asc

References:

• How to create an RPM package
• Fedora Packaging Guidelines
• How to sign your custom RPM package with GPG Key
• RPM, %config, and (noreplace)
• How to setup your own package repository
• yum-plugin-priorities
• protectbase plugin
• My Linux RPMs and repo