rpkg
is an RPM packaging utility based on python-rpkg library.
It works with both DistGit and standard Git repositories.
It handles two types of directory content: packed and unpacked.
There are currently two ways of handling those two different content types:
Apart from being useful as a means to handle unpacked (as well as packed) content, they also make it possible to generate potentially large parts of your spec file automatically from a Git repository where your spec file is located.
An example spec template might look like this:
Name: {{{ git_name }}} Version: {{{ git_version }}} Release: 1%{?dist} Summary: This is a test package. License: GPLv2+ URL: https://someurl.org Source: {{{ git_pack }}} %description This is a test package. %prep {{{ git_setup_macro }}} %changelog {{{ git_changelog }}}
Having a spec template like this in your project (instead of just a plain spec file) allows your built source packages to automatically follow git history of your project.
Read more here.
Auto-packing works only if auto_pack
configuration option is set to True
and only if the content
you are working with is not packed (see rpkg is-packed
).
When invoking rpkg srpm
on an unpacked content, rpkg
will download external sources (if any)
and then it will generate a tarball from the whole content of the working directory named according
to Source0
definition present in the associated .spec file. This tarball and the .spec file are
then passed to rpmbuild to generate the resulting srpm.
Run %prep phase of an rpm build:
$ rpkg prep git_pack: Source file already exists. No action taken. Wrote: /tmp/rpkg/rpkg-client.spec Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.4iFciz + umask 022 + cd /tmp/rpkg/ + cd /tmp/rpkg + rm -rf rpkg-client-1.0.git.122.e59a5b11 + /usr/bin/gzip -dc /tmp/rpkg/rpkg-client-1.0.git.122.e59a5b11.tar.gz + /usr/bin/tar -xof - + STATUS=0 + '[' 0 -ne 0 ']' + cd rpkg-client-1.0.git.122.e59a5b11 + /usr/bin/chmod -Rf a+rX,u+w,g-w,o-w . + exit 0
For the following command, you need to have a project in COPR created. See quick tutorial here on how to do it.
$ rpkg copr-build @releng/rpkg-client git_pack: Wrote: /tmp/rpkg/rpkg-client-1.0.git.122.e59a5b11.tar.gz Wrote: /tmp/rpkg/rpkg-client.spec Wrote: /tmp/rpkg/rpkg-client-1.0.git.122.e59a5b11-1.fc27.src.rpm Uploading package /tmp/rpkg/rpkg-client-1.0.git.122.e59a5b11-1.fc27.src.rpm 100% |################################| 57kB 339kB/s eta 0:00:00 Build was added to rpkg-client: https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/build/724892/ Created builds: 724892 Watching build(s): (this may be safely interrupted) 15:50:12 Build 724892: importing ...
Other useful commands that you can use:
rpkg lint
to check the .spec file and the overall package conformance to RPM standardrpkg local
to locally build the package into an rpmrpkg copr-build
to build an srpm and send it for build to COPRrpkg ...
(see rpkg --help
or man rpkg
)