Questions tagged [rpmbuild]

rpmbuild prepares RPM packages (see the rpm tag) from scenarios also known as spec-files. spec-files provide information to rpmbuild about necessary steps which should be executed to produce RPM packages.

In general, RPM preparing routine consists of the following steps:

1. Creating of building environment:

   mkdir ~/rpmbuild
   mkdir ~/rpmbuild/{BUILD,BUILDROOT,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS}
   # Directories summary:
   #
   # BUILD     in this directory source code will be built
   # BUILDROOT in this directory software will be installed before packing in the package
   # RPMS      this directory contains completed (binary) RPM packages
   # SOURCES   where you should put the sources for the application
   # SPECS     where you should place the spec file(s)
   # SRPMS     this directory contains completed source RPM packages
   

2. Putting source files into the ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES directory.

3. Putting spec-files into the ~/rpmbuild/SPECS directory.
4. Running rpmbuild options /path/to/spec/file.

See also the rpmbuild(8) man page and detailed instructions in the Fedora RPM Guide.