discuss: Draft proposed HOWTO on RPM-building trick and traps
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Re: Draft proposed HOWTO on RPM-building trick and traps
From:
Saqib Ali ####@####.####
Date:
26 Aug 2004 23:39:47 -0000
Message-Id: <20040826233946.28108.qmail@web13523.mail.yahoo.com>
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--- "Eric S. Raymond" ####@####.#### wrote:
> --
> <a href="http://www.catb.org/~esr/">Eric S.
> Raymond</a>
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> <article>
>
> <articleinfo>
> <title>RPM Builder's Tricks and Traps
> HOWTO</title>
>
> <author>
> <firstname>Eric</firstname>
> <othername>Steven</othername>
> <surname>Raymond</surname>
> <affiliation>
> <orgname><ulink url="&home;">Thyrsus
> Enterprises</ulink></orgname>
> </affiliation>
> </author>
>
> <revhistory>
> <revision>
> <revnumber>1.9</revnumber>
> <date>2004-08-26</date>
> <authorinitials>esr</authorinitials>
> <revremark>
> First draft.
> </revremark>
> </revision>
> </revhistory>
>
> <abstract>
> <para>Help for the perplexed RPM builder; solution
> recipes, with
> examples, for common RPM-building problems.</para>
> </abstract>
> </articleinfo>
>
> <sect1><title>Introduction</title>
>
> <para>Though the RPM package format is a vitally
> important tool for
> open-source package distribution, it is both complex
> and very poorly
> documented. It has been difficult to discover
> solutions to many
> common RPM-building problems, and specfile
> composition is something
> of a black art. This HOWTO presents solutions to
> common problems, and
> gives examples you can modify to use yourself. We
> assume basic
> familiarity with RPM.</para>
>
> <sect2 id="newversions"><title>New versions of this
> document</title>
>
> <para>You can also view the latest version of this
> HOWTO on the World Wide Web
> via the URL <ulink
> url="&howto;Linksys-Blue-Box-Router-HOWTO.html">
> &howto;Linksys-Blue-Box-HOWTO.html</ulink>.</para>
> </sect2>
>
> <sect2 id="license"><title>License and
> Copyright</title>
>
> <para>Copyright (c) 2004, Eric S. Raymond.</para>
>
> <para>Permission is granted to copy, distribute
> and/or modify this document
> under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation
> License, Version 1.2
> or any later version published by the Free
> Software Foundation;
> with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover
> Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts.
> A copy of the license is located at <ulink
>
url="http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html">www.gnu.org/copyleft/fdl.html</ulink>.</para>
>
> <para>Feel free to mail any questions or comments
> about this HOWTO to Eric
> S. Raymond, ####@####.####
> </para>
>
> </sect2>
>
> </sect1>
> <sect1><title>Frequently-Asked Questions</title>
>
> <sect2 id='path_macros'><title>How do I make my RPMS
> distro-independent?</title>
>
> <para>In general this question does not have a
> well-defined answer,
> since you can't know what the installation
> environment for your RPM
> will be. But there are some practices you can use
> to make it much
> more likely that you'll get a clean install
> anywhere. One is to use
> path macros, and the other is to rely only on a
> minimum set of tools
> at RPM installation time.</para>
>
> <para>Path macros are supposed to be set up properly
> by your distro
> packager, so that (for example) if Foobaz Linux
> normally puts commands
> in <filename>/foobaz/bin</filename> the macro
> %{_bindir} in your specfile
> will expand to <filename>/foobaz/bin</filename>.
> The point is for your
> specfile not to have to worry about it.</para>
>
> <para>So, use path macros instead of absolute paths.
> Here are some
> lines extracted from a real specfile that illustrate
> how to do
> this:</para>
>
> <programlisting>
> %files
> %defattr(-,root,root,-)
> %doc README INSTALL COPYING gpsd.xml libgps.xml
> libgpsd.xml HACKING TODO
> %attr(755, root, root) %{_bindir}/gpsd
> %{_mandir}/man1/gpsd.1*
> %{_libdir}/libgps.a
> %{_mandir}/man3/libgps.3*
> %{_mandir}/man3/libgpsd.3*
> </programlisting>
>
> <para>To find out what path macros are available,
> type <command>rpm
> ––showrc</command>. This will dump a lot
> of information to
> standard output, probably more than you want. You
> can filter it
> effectively with
>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>grep</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
> Here are a few of the most important ones and what
> they default
> to:</para>
>
> <informaltable>
> <tgroup cols='2'>
> <thead>
>
<row><entry>Macro</entry><entry>Default</entry><entry>Used
> for</entry></row>
> </thead>
> <tbody>
> <row>
> <entry>{%_bindir}</entry>
> <entry>/usr/bin</entry>
> <entry>User commands</entry>
> </row>
> <row>
> <entry>{%_libdir}</entry>
> <entry>/usr/lib</entry>
> <entry>Libraries</entry>
> </row>
> <row>
> <entry>{%_mandir}</entry>
> <entry>/usr/share/man</entry>
> <entry>Manual pages</entry>
> </row>
> <row>
> <entry>{%_sysconfdir}</entry>
> <entry>/etc</entry>
> <entry>System configuration files</entry>
> </row>
> </tbody>
> </tgroup>
> </informaltable>
>
> <para>The tools you can rely on having at
> installation time are those
> specified in the <ulink
> url='http://www.linuxbase.org/'>Linux Standard
> Base</ulink>. Look in their Specification for the
> section on
> <citetitle>Commands and Utilities</citetitle>.
> Note, however, that
> though
>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>ldconfig</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
> is not on that list, you will need to use it when
> installing a
> library.</para>
>
> </sect2>
> <sect2><title>What is the trick for building RPMs as
> a non-root user?</title>
>
> <para>There are two things you need to do to build
> RPMs
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