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RPM Packaging guide

https://rpm-packaging-guide.github.io/

This guide seems a little more detailed as compared to the IBM tutorial. More core concepts, and less copy pasta.

Project list:

Program name Purpose
hello-world Your first rpm package. Creates a hello world script and rpm from one spec file.

Using the install command

install as a command is provided to the system through the GNU Core utilities. It places an artifact to the specified directory in the filesystem with a specified set of permissions.

The below command is an example of using the install command to place the bello shell script we have in the /usr/bin directory with full permissions to the user, and read+execute permissions to the group and all users.

sudo install -m 0755 bello /usr/bin/bello

We can add an install directive to our make files so that we can run make install. note make files are usually written by the developer and not the packager

Tips and Tricks

An RPM is a CPIO archive. You can view it's contents without installing it by:

rpm2cpio <your_package>.rpm | cpio -ivmd