Questions tagged [rpmbuild]
This tag is for questions about rpmbuild, a tool for building RPM packages.
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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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error: patch 2147483647 defined multiple times
Sorry for the cryptic title, but that's exactly what I get:
bash-4.2# rpmbuild --rebuild dcmtk-3.6.7-3.fc39.src.rpm
Installing dcmtk-3.6.7-3.fc39.src.rpm
warning: user mockbuild does not exist - using ...
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Is it possible to install an RPM in a RPM?
Can I create an RPM which contains and puts an RPM in a directory, and install that RPM?
How?
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Trying to build a source rpm getting: error: Architecture is not included: x86_64
When I try to build a source rpm for podman 4.5 on Alma Linux 8, I'm getting
rpmbuild --rebuild ./podman-4.5.0-1.fc39.src.rpm
Installing ./podman-4.5.0-1.fc39.src.rpm
warning: user mockbuild does not ...
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How to use an alternate toolset in rpmbuild
I am trying to compile & package the latest version of Zeek (5.0.7) for rhel 7 servers. I get an error saying the "cxx17" is required. Searching the web, I found that it is contained ...
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rpmbuild giving duplicate file error message
I am trying to build a package for syslog-ng on rhel 8 and keep getting these errors:
File listed twice: /usr/lib/.build-id/53/46b0c98ce522ee7f3ac31c3c1de3bf5f62c873
File listed twice: /usr/...
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SLES15 SP4 | Installation of a rpm package fails when %post scriplet fails with "/usr/lib/1sb/install _initd: No such file or directory"
I have a .spec file to install a rpm. I have the following snippet in post install (%post scriplet)
%post -n %{package_name}
# Enable the service at boot time
%if %{?suse_version:1}0
/usr/lib/lsb/...
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how to pass the DMAKE and DUSE flags to cmake in a spec file (rpmbuild)
A fast question about cmake and spec.
If I compile manually with those commands:
export CFLAGS="-O2 -fpic"
cmake . \
-DCMAKE_CXX_FLAGS:STRING="$CFLAGS" \
-DCMAKE_C_FLAGS:STRING=...
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RPMDB Corruption Issue - RHEL 7
RPMDB got corrupted recursively on one of my server recursively.
2016-07-07 14:14:31,296 - ERROR - error: rpmdb: BDB0113 Thread/process 6723/140691298633536 failed: BDB1507 Thread died in Berkeley ...
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How do you build an in-tree kernel module as if it were an out-of-tree kernel module?
I would like to use the Oracle Linux UEK7 Kernel but UEK7 disabled DRBD , which we rely on heavily.
However, the .src.rpm is available so theoretically the drbd.ko module could be built against /lib/...
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How to inject yum/dnf variables into Mock prior to package installation
Context: I have a yum/dnf repo (currently supporting both RHEL7 and RHEL8 so we need to work with both, although it shouldn't make a difference) built inside Artifactory. The team uses a common .repo ...
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How to convert this these commands in ubuntu
am trying to build debian package using debuild command
since ubuntu does n't have spec file how to replace the content of
spec file to the ubuntu control file and also am facing issue while ...
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Can you exclude a single dependency automatically created by rpmbuild?
I'm using rpmbuild to create an custom rpm to install python3.9 from source. rpmbuild automatically creates dependencies for things that it determines are necessary via means described here. It is ...
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How do you put conditionals in an RPM spec file for %install and %file macros?
I only want files copied into an RPM spec file under a certain condition like:
%install
if [ %{test}=="true" ];
then
cp %{topdirectory}/file1.txt $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/home/user1
fi
%files
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Why can't I see print statements in my RPM spec file?
In my RPM spec file I have the following lines:
%pre
echo "This is a test"
When I run the "rpmbuild" on my spec file, it builds everything correctly, but I never see the ...
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How do you modify the RPM spec file to require perl libraries on centos 7?
I normally start with a Minimal Centos 7 and run
yum install perl-libs.x86_64
This works perfectly.
I am now trying to create an RPM spec file that uses the "Requires" clause to package ...
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How do I modify the rpm spec file to require java-1.8.0-openjdk on centos 7?
I normally start with a Minimal Centos 7 and run
yum install java-1.8.0-openjdk
in order to install a Java Runtime Environment. This works perfectly as I am able to execute JAR files.
I am now ...
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Installing a newer version of mutt on quite old Debian
I have a machine with Debian 7 (yes, I know this system is quite old, but right now I can't upgrade to a newer version). This version has mutt version 1.5.21 in the repositories, but I would like to ...
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rpm: define my own variable in spec file
Is there a way to declare my own variable inside of a spec file and refer to it as %{my_var} ?
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rpm: how to disable debuginfo
OS RedHat 8.4
I know that having %debug_package macro in a spec file will generate debuginfo for a package, and will produce mypackage-debuginfo-<VERSION>.<ARCH> rpm. However the funny ...
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Modifying compiler options when building RPMS that use cmake
I'm building a package on Rocky 8 that works fine on Fedora 35. When I tried to compile it on Rocky 8 using rpmbuild -ba, I got the error: relocation xxxxx can not be used when making a shared object; ...
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Many "cannot determine ksym provides" errors when packaging vanilla Kernel (git tag v5.17)
I am trying to build a RPM package for openSUSE Leap 15.2, because I need some special drivers, which are not implemented (or not back-ported) to Kernel v5.3. Cloned the GitHub repository from Linus ...
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rpmbuild fails | Missing dependencies (However missing dependencies are installed)
I'm attempting to build RPM's & Repo's for various agent's we use at my company. This particular package has a private library and I'm unable to figure out what the problem is.
The package seems ...
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If I do not care about debug support in red hat packages, what are the drawbacks of turning build-id support off in the specs file?
As a follow up on this question, what if I am not interested in having these debug features - how do I simply prevent these build-id files (debug info packages?) from being installed ? Ultimately I do ...
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Make OS-dependent Requires section in an RPM spec file
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I have an RPM that uses semanage (SELinux policy management tool) and restorecon (SELinux context configuration tool) in the post-installation and pre-uninstallation stages.
Unfortunately, ...
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build rpm for python2 if python3 is not installed
I want to package a python application which can run on both python2 and python3 for we have still old systems running python2.
the default should be python3 but in case of python3 is not installed. I ...
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shebang changed to /usr/libexec/platform-python when building python rpm packages
I am trying to build a RPM from a python application on RHEL8.2 machine.
the shebang on the scripts are set correctly to #!/usr/bin/python3
however for some reason the shebang gets changed to #!/usr/...
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Linux RPMBUILD SPEC, how to Install to custom location /usr/local/file1 not always /usr dirctory
I'm having problem for RPM to be installed to /usr/local/file1, it always installs to /usr/local/file1/usr. I even used ./configure --prefix /usr/local/file1 and it still installed to /usr/local/...
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Confusion on Fedora RPM build
I'm trying to rebuild Fedora with some changes in the .config file of the kernel configurations. I'm trying to follow the steps in this guide: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Building_a_custom_kernel/...
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rpmbuild spec enable configure build file
I am using rpmbuild for util-linux.
This command works for me:
rpmbuild -ba ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/util-linux.spec
In the file util-linux-2.23.2.tar.xz there is a file with the name configure and this ...
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Copy file with rpm in %pretrans
How can I get a .tgz file from rpmbuild's SOURCES directory within the %pretrans section to a target system using a RPM and extract it there?
I would have to do it in the %pretrans section because the ...
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Same RPM for multiples CentOS major versions
I've created a little bash script and build it into a RPM package.
This little bash script works very well on CentOS 5, CentOS 6 and CentOS 7 (and probably on CentOS 8, not checked)
My question is: Do ...
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what the `--build-in-place` actually mean in rpmbuild?
I checkout a git repo of https://github.com/rpmfusion/buildsys-build-rpmfusion.git
First I thought use rpmbuild -bs --build-in-place buildsys-build-rpmfusion.spec can avoid copy source to ~/rpmbuild/...
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Fedora 33 RPM package provides its own libraries won't install says "nothing provides"
This should be watching ice melt simple, but it is not. I'm on Fedora 33 and creating an RPM for the Diamond text editor. I've got the Debian stuff all done and works great. Diamond uses the ...
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Tell yum where a local shared library dependency is
We are installing a custom rpm which we built using rpmbuild. During the install it fails with a dependency on specific file, in our case specifically libnvidia-ml.so.1:
Requires: libnvidia-ml.so.1()(...
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Why is RPM not finding my package version, even though it lists it as available?
I am creating RPMs from spec files. I was installing java8 latest rev as a dependency, and it always worked fine. Today I needed to pin the java8 version down to a specific rev, but I'm getting an ...
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Build RPM subpackages without a base package
According to a RPM documentation/guide (http://ftp.rpm.org/max-rpm/ch-rpm-subpack.html) one can use subpackages to build multiple RPM packages with a single SPEC file. In the mentioned link the ...
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RPM->installing a new version of a program which has different name
I need to install a version 2.2 of a program X. In repo the default version is 2.0. I built the rpm with rpm-build and I have an rpm called X-2.2. The program from the repo is called X2.0 so package ...
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Is it possible to determine which build flags were used on a pre-built RPM package?
I have been using the Quagga dynamic routing daemon on a CentOS 6 VM. I'd like to use a feature that is only accessible if the RPM was built with the --multipath=X flag. The RPM I'm using was already ...
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How can I tell if a SRPM package will have components which will run as root?
Some packages install software which needs to run with root privileges, such as the sudo package. Others, such as vim, do not inherently need to run with root privileges.
Is there a generic way to ...
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How can I reliably modify build configs and add compiler flags in C/C++ RPM files?
I need to change the build configuration of a large number of rpm files for testing purposes. I'm only speaking of C/C++ code here. I'm not necessarily looking to do automation, but I could use a hand ...
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What are some effective ways to build & run an SRPM without installing it?
I am on Fedora 31 and I do software development. I need to work with code in many source RPM packages for relatively short periods of time. For this reason, I'd like to simply build the package, but ...
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Trying to build a RPM for dahdi lead to boot fail on the destination machine
I am trying to build a rpm for Centos 7 to be able to install dahdi without the need of build tools on the destination machine.
For that, I tried to create this specs file :
Name: dahdi-...
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Use copr with rpmfusion-nonfree packages
I'm building a custom ffmpeg with fdk-aac-devel. This dependency is located in rpmfusing-nonfree. So copr build fails because it cannot find this package. Is there a way for me to install this ...
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rpm_build modifying sh files
When I run rpm_build, it changes the first line of sh files from #!/bin/sh to #!/usr/bin/sh - any idea what might cause this?
I observe this change whether I install the rpm or extract the files ...
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How are the pkgrel, extraver, snapinfo and minorbump fields of RPM's Release tag used?
The documentation for creating RPM packages in Fedora Linux states that
There are potentially four fields which comprise the structured
Release: tag:
package release number (<pkgrel&...
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