This application is an RPM packaging utility based on python-rpkg library. It works with both DistGit and Git repositories and it handles two types of directory content: packed content and unpacked content.

• Packed (unexpanded) content is that composed of tarballs, patches, and a .spec file.
• Unpacked (expanded) content is that composed of plain source files and a .spec file.

Currently rpkg offer two ways of achieving this:

• spec templates
• autopacking (deprecated)

Spec templates:

Name:       {{{ git_name }}}
Version:    {{{ git_version }}}
Release:    1%{?dist}
Summary:    This is a test package.

License:    GPLv2+
URL:        https://someurl.org

Source: {{{ make_source }}}

%description
This is a test package.

%prep
{{{ setup }}}

{{{ git_change_log }}}

TODO: write up more!

Autopacking (deprecated):

If you have auto_pack option enabled in your config, then for packed content, if you ask rpkg to make srpm (rpkg srpm), it will download any external files from the appropriate storage (e.g. lookaside cache for DistGit) and then it will invoke rpmbuild -bs with _sourcedir, _specdir, _builddir, _srcrpmdir,_rpmdir macros all set to the working directory.

For unpacked content, if you ask rpkg to do the same thing, it will download external sources (if any) and then it will also 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 are then passed to the same rpmbuild command as above for the packed content.

Apart from generating srpms from the application sources, you can also run other useful packaging commands like rpkg lint to check the .spec file and the overall package conformance to RPM standard, rpkg local to locally build the package into an rpm, or rpkg copr-build to build an srpm and send it for build to COPR.

Examples:

    $ cd unpacked-copr-build-example
    $ ls .
    doc  LICENSE  README.md  rpkg  rpkg.bash  rpkg-client.spec  rpkg.conf  rpkglib  run_tests.sh  setup.py  tests
    $ rpkg copr-build user/project
    Wrote: copr-build-example/rpkg-client-0.8.tar.gz
    Wrote: copr-build-example/rpkg-client-0.8-1.fc25.src.rpm
    Uploading package rpkg-client-0.8-1.fc25.src.rpm
    100% |################################| 49kB 263kB/s eta 0:00:00
    Build was added to example:
      https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/build/625402/
    Created builds: 625402
    ...

    $ cd prep-example
    $ ls .
    doc  LICENSE  README.md  rpkg  rpkg.bash  rpkg-client.spec  rpkg.conf  rpkglib  run_tests.sh  setup.py  tests
    $ rpkg make-source
    Wrote: rpkg-client/rpkg-client-0.8.tar.gz
    $ rpkg prep
    Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.bd5cCF
    + umask 022
    ...
    $ rpkg clean

You can find more information and more examples in rpkg man pages (man rpkg).