To all:

Thank you for the links to grunt and the gurulabs presentation - I have not come across those before. Here's another toolset that I have just started exploring:

https://github.com/marquiz/git-buildpackage-rpm/

http://marquiz.github.io/git-buildpackage-rpm/gbp-rpm.html 



The idea is to build rpms from within your own git repo - a very handy thing indeed. Besides constructing custom rpms for third-party packages, or re-packaging others' srpms, I would like ultimately make it easy enough for developers to create rpms as a normal part of their build cycle for their own software. Of course, one needs to implement the local yum repo thing previously mentioned.



Tim



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On 13 August 2015 at 01:35, Phil Wyett <[log in to unmask]> wrote:



>> Hi Joe,

>>

>> I do not know if the following falls in the "no good" category but I 

>> used it a lot to learn how to build my own packages :

>>

>> http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/

>>

>> JM

>>

>

> Hi,

>

> A decent reference is:

>

> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package

>

> Regards

>

> Phil

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Two other tools which are useful:



1) Look through existing RPMs that match what you are doing. If you have a bunch of perl or python or ruby looking at existing packages can help you figure out why the guidelines and what you are trying aren't working [because packaging is like cooking and sometimes you need a LOT MORE SALT.. or none at all.]



2) Worse comes to worse.. there is easy-rpm. This is the "I give up and I need something by the end of the day." solution. It is not pretty, won't win friends, and will probably not work 2 times the same way in a row.. but if you need it and it migth give you an idea on how to do it. https://www.npmjs.com/package/grunt-easy-rpm







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Stephen J Smoogen.