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<h1>Build Package</h1>
This page describes howto build RPM install-packages from RPM
source-packages.
This adapts and optimizes an install-package specifically to your
system.
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This is especially helpful to resolve version conflicts of dependent
packages. Furthermore, install-packages for other platforms (e.g. PowerPC)
can be created.
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Note: It is also possible to build RPM packages on Debian systems.
<h2>Preparations</h2>
You need to do the following preparations to be able to
build the packages as a regular user.
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Note: rpm must be at least version 4. Execute
<em>rpm --version</em> to find out about the version.
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<li>Create RPM directory structure
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Choose a directory (e.g. $HOME/freegisrpm) and create the subdirectories
BUILD, RPM, SOURCES, SPECS and SRPMS.
A possible command sequence for this is:
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mkdir $HOME/freegisrpm
cd $HOME/freegisrpm
mkdir BUILD RPMS SOURCES SPECS SRPMS
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<li>Set environment variable RPM_DIR
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export RPM_DIR=$HOME/freegisrpm
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<li>Create $HOME/.rpmmacros
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This file sets general preferences and some specific settings for
signing packages.
If you don't have a GnuPG-key, you can skip the signature settings
i.e. drop the last 4 lines.
A signature becomes important when you want to give away packages to third
parties.
<pre>
%packager Name Lastname <Name.Lastname@mydomain.example>
%_topdir /home/mylogin/freegisrpm
%_signature gpg
%_gpg_name Name Lastname
%_pgp_path ~/.gnupg
%_pgpbin /usr/bin/gpg
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<h2>Installing the RPM source-package</h2>
Now you can install any RPM source-package.
It's components are installed into the corresponding subdirectories
of your rpm-directory.
Essentially these are the sources (into directory SOURCES) and the
so-called spec-file which contains all build instructions. The spec-file
will go into the SPEC directory.
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Example:
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rpm --install /cdrom/src/gdal-1.1.8.src.rpm
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<h2>Create install-package</h2>
Go to the directory with the spec-files and rebuild the package:
<pre>
cd $HOME/freegisrpm/SPECS
rpm -bb gdal.spec
</pre>
Next, you will find the newly created package in $HOME/freegisrpm/RPMS/i386.
If you build the package for another architecture than i386, then the name of
the directory has a corresponding name.
<h2>Documentation of RPM</h2>
With the command
<pre>
man rpm
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or
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rpm --help
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you will can help for the various command line options of RPM.
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For more information see
<a href="http://www.rpm.org/">homepage of RPM</a>.
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