Questions tagged [rpmbuild]
This tag is for questions about rpmbuild, a tool for building RPM packages.
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Is the are a single site-packages directory for multiple versions of python3 in rpm-based distros?
I am working on creating deb/rpm packages for a little project of mine.
I have already created the packages for a few rpm-based and deb-based distros. In deb distros one python file is being setup in /...
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Strange "Directory not empty" for `rm -rf ...`command for %clean in rpmbuild of SLES15
After upgrading from SLES12 SP5 to SLES15 SP6 I noticed that the %clean phase of some RPM spec files fail for some strange reason when using rpmbuild -ba.
The RPMs (SRPM, RPMs) are written correctly, ...
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Building a custom Linux kernel causes VMware Tools to stop working
I am compiling kernels for CentOS 6.10 in VMware Workstation. For some reason when I compile and boot a new kernel, VMware Tools stops working, or at least the shared folders feature does, which is ...
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help understanding spec file "provides" syntax
I am fairly new to rpm building and i have been trying to understand the syntax of "Provides" inside a spec file without success. I have the following spec file snippet for building clamav ...
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How to build a RPM with circular dependencies?
I am trying to build mesa-7.6-0.1.fc11.src from source.
$ yumdownloader --source mesa
$ cd rpmbuild/SPECS
$ rpmbuild -ba mesa.spec
error: Failed build dependencies:
freeglut-devel is needed by ...
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how to code spec file to install a file on system only if a file is missing
I am new to rpm building and for the past week I am trying to code a spec file to install a file on the system only if a specific files is missing. Here is a snippet
%global homedir %{_var}/...
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Kernel image (vmlinuz...) on /boot has always the same date/time across different compilations. Where is it specified?
On a Fedora System, I'm often recompiling the kernel in order to add the necessary T2 patches for the kernel to benefit from the full capabilities of my MacBook Pro (and also so that the keyboard ...
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giving variables a default value in a spec file
I have a spec (myspecfile.spec) file that looks similar to
Name: package-%{myname}
Version: %{myversion}
Release: %{myrelease}
License: gpl2
Summary: this is my package
BuildArch: noarch
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Undefine CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP macro while building linux kernel image
I am wanted to build a custom kernel image in which macro CONFIG_BLK_CGROUP is not defined. After researching a little bit I found we can do such configurations in .config file.
To be more precise I ...
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rpmbuild - how to force /usr prefix in install phase?
I have a very small app that I intend to package in deb and rpm files.
The project is here: https://github.com/eantoranz/gitmod
I have moved forward locally from what I have in the repo but it's not ...
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How to create a rpm according a exist one?
I want to create "snapd" rpm on HUAWEI's OS(openEuler OS), but I have no experience with rpmbuild. In snapd's github repository, there are many spec file for other Linux distribution like ...
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rpmbuild: handle naming differences of packages in different distributions
I'm writing a RPM spec file for building my software. The software depends on Crypto++. Crypto++ is named differently on different distributions, for example, on OpenSUSE, I should write
BuildRequires:...
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Spec file for rpmbuild to build gdb9 on ec2
I'm using aws's ec2 instance and I need to install a newer version of GDB (I can't use yum install since there is no newer version available for amazon RHEL).
My workflow requires to do this process ...
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Options for managing user created files in rpm spec file
How is best to handle files in an rpm spec file that may or may not exist with these specifics:
Part of the files delivered are example files under a /conf.d/ directory. The files are installed as ...
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Transition %cmake* (*.spec file) to cmake3?
I'd would like to transition an existing *.spec file from the fedora style %cmake* commands to the alternate %cmake3 based one (eg. Amazon Linux 2).
What should I replace an existing %cmake_build with ...
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