Packaging Source Code inside the RPM Packages

Prepare build environment

yum install rpm-build

mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS}

tree rpmbuild

rpmbuild

├── BUILD

├── RPMS

├── SOURCES

├── SPECS

└── SRPMS

5 directories, 0 files

 echo '%_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild' > ~/.rpmmacros

Pull down the source code

cd rpmbuild/SOURCES/

curl -LO https://github.com/open-iscsi/rtslib-fb/archive/refs/tags/v2.1.74.tar.gz

tar -xzvf v2.1.74.tar.gz

yum install python-rtslib

mv rtslib-fb-2.1.74/ python-rtslib-2.1.fb74/

rm -rf v2.1.74.tar.gz

tar -zcvf python-rtslib-2.1.fb74.tar.gz python-rtslib-2.1.fb74/

#edit setup.py

setup (

    name = 'python-rtslib',

    version = '2.1.fb74',

yum install python-setuptools

python setup.py bdist_rpm --packager="Jojan Paul <jpmolekunnel@gmail.com>" --spec-only

cp dist/python-rtslib.spec ../../SPECS/

cd ../../SPECS/

#edit file

vim python-rtslib.spec

%description

python-rtslib

Build RPM

cd ~/rpmbuild/

rpmbuild -ba SPECS/python-rtslib.spec

cd RPMS/noarch

ls

python-rtslib-2.1.fb74-1.noarch.rpm

#test

yum install python-rtslib-2.1.fb74-1.noarch.rpm