Have you ever built any rpm package before? Nope? Try reading this blog entry, and we’ll see if you are capable of building one afterward 
.. Oh c’mon, don’t be so pesimistic :p
So, to make things simple, I’ve tried using KDevelop built in (suppose-to-be) rpm builder. You know what, it throws error that Source is empty. Take a peek into the
Google to the rescue. Let’s query a RPM howto. Yay, I found one, dated somewhere around 1999 on rpm.org. It looked like a reference file instead of a real howto 
. After crawling several pages thru google. I ended up with a page on fedoranews.org. It’s a “HOWTO: Building Metisse RPM package for Fedora Core”. Could this be my saviour?. Well, I downloaded the spec file. Take a good look into it and removed thing I don’t feel good on (yeah, it’s a hunch stuff :p). Well, with a lil bit of luck I made it to make a working spec file. it’s not difficult as I thought (lucky me). it’s pretty trivial. What to care about is filenaming as it’s the core foundation. Here, lemme give you the spec first:
[geek@toni ~]$ cat /tmp/kbfxvista-0.4.8.1.spec
Name : kbfxvista
Version : 0.4.8.1
Release : 1.FC4
License : GPL
Summary : Kbfx for fedora core 4
Group : Accessories
URL : http://blog.neofreko.com
Vendor : kbfx.org
Packager : Akhmad Fathonih <akhmadf@gmail.com>
BuildRoot : %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-buildroot
Source : %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
%description
kbfx is a customizable kmenu-like button
%prep
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
%setup -q
%build
./configure --prefix=/usr --mandir=/usr/share/man
%{__make}
%install
%{__make} DESTDIR=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT prefix=/usr install
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/var/tmp
%clean
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT
%files
#####################################################
# defattr sets the default attributes for all files
#####################################################
%defattr(-, root, root)
%changelog
* Thu Jan 24 2006 Akhmad Fathonih <akhmadf@gmail.com> 0.4.8.1-1.FC4
I'm trying to build the rpm
Okay, what you need to care about a lot here is filenaming rite. You see these lines:
Name : kbfxvista Version : 0.4.8.1 Release : 1.FC4
That’s important and has to be synchronized with the Source line:
Source : %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
Yep, with this line above, you need not to adjust Source line for each build.
Okay, now that our spec file is ready, we have to compress our actual source code. First thing first, make sure it’s under <package>-version folder (as the Source format has said). Then compressed as the source format pattern as well.
Now, copy that compressed file to /usr/src/redhat/BUILD as rpmbuild will always refer that folder. And finally invoke:
sudo rpmbuild -ba kbfxvista-0.4.8.1.spec
Note that I use sudo to raise my privilege. You need to do the same with your own recipe, you may not use sudo rite? Done? Not yet. I got this error:
Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /var/tmp/kbfxvista-0.4.8.1-buildroot
error: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
/usr/lib/kde3/kcm_kcmkbfx.la
/usr/lib/kde3/kcm_kcmkbfx.so
/usr/lib/libkbfxvista.la
/usr/lib/libkbfxvista.so
/usr/share/applications/kde/kcmkbfx.desktop
/usr/share/apps/kicker/applets/kbfxvista.desktop
/usr/share/config.kcfg/kbfx.kcfg
RPM build errors:
Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found:
/usr/lib/kde3/kcm_kcmkbfx.la
/usr/lib/kde3/kcm_kcmkbfx.so
/usr/lib/libkbfxvista.la
/usr/lib/libkbfxvista.so
/usr/share/applications/kde/kcmkbfx.desktop
/usr/share/apps/kicker/applets/kbfxvista.desktop
/usr/share/config.kcfg/kbfx.kcfg
Someone said it’s rpm 4.1 feature . Other said it can be resolved by adjusting two macros flags in usr/lib/rpm/macros. After adjusting the flag, we can rebuild our rpm.
Darn, it’s still doesn’t work. Let’s follow second advice, add this in the end of .spec file:
%{prefix}/lib/kde3/kcm_kcmkbfx.* %{prefix}/usr/lib/libkbfxvista.* %{prefix}/share/applications/kde/kcmkbfx.desktop %{prefix}/share/apps/kicker/applets/kbfxvista.desktop %{prefix}/share/config.kcfg/kbfx.kcfg
Doesn’t work either eh? yup. It’s shitty indeed. Let’s googling some more. Dammit.
Okay, these flags thing seems referring to our local rpmmacros (~/.rpmmacros). Thus we have to edit ~/.rpmmacros (i don’t have any so I make a new file), add this line:
%_unpackaged_files_terminate_build 0
Now, rebuild:
[geek@toni tmp]$ sudo rpmbuild -ba kbfxvista-0.4.8.1.spec --nobuild Password: Processing files: kbfxvista-0.4.8.1-1.FC4 Processing files: kbfxvista-debuginfo-0.4.8.1-1.FC4 Provides: kcm_kcmkbfx.so.debug libkbfxvista.so.debug Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1 Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /var/tmp/kbfxvista-0.4.8.1-buildroot warning: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/lib/kde3/kcm_kcmkbfx.la /usr/lib/kde3/kcm_kcmkbfx.so /usr/lib/libkbfxvista.la /usr/lib/libkbfxvista.so /usr/share/applications/kde/kcmkbfx.desktop /usr/share/apps/kicker/applets/kbfxvista.desktop /usr/share/config.kcfg/kbfx.kcfg [geek@toni tmp]$
I use --nobuild since my source already built with no error, and I hate to wait for a time consuming rebuild. Now, where's my freaking *.rpm?! Dammit, I need to do a full build over it (remove --nobuild option). And this is what I got:
Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /var/tmp/kbfxvista-0.4.8.1-buildroot warning: Installed (but unpackaged) file(s) found: /usr/lib/kde3/kcm_kcmkbfx.la /usr/lib/kde3/kcm_kcmkbfx.so /usr/lib/libkbfxvista.la /usr/lib/libkbfxvista.so /usr/share/applications/kde/kcmkbfx.desktop /usr/share/apps/kicker/applets/kbfxvista.desktop /usr/share/config.kcfg/kbfx.kcfg Wrote: /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS/kbfxvista-0.4.8.1-1.FC4.src.rpm Wrote: /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/kbfxvista-0.4.8.1-1.FC4.i386.rpm Wrote: /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/kbfxvista-debuginfo-0.4.8.1-1.FC4.i386.rpm
Whooohooooo!! Now, let's check it wether it's empty or not. unpackaged warning means it's not placed into the package, so I'm afraid it's not inside the rpm file. Voila!
[geek@toni ~]$ rpm -qpl /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/kbfxvista-0.4.8.1-1.FC4.i386.rpm (contains no files)
Aarrggghh!!!
Okay, now I really need to include those files within the package (delete my previous ~/.rpmmacros). And how am I suppose to do that? Back to google, everyone! Full speed ahead!
Okay, let's do this .. it seems that rpmbuild will look for the files to package relative to {BUILD_ROOT} .. I have /usr in my {BUILD_ROOT}. Damn, a dreadfull job. I just can take this no more so, let's do brute force. No more Mr. Niceguy:
%defattr(-, root, root) /usr/*
That will glob everything unser {BUILD_ROOT}/usr. NOw we need to "rebuild" the package. remember, --nobuild means simulation, it's a good practise to test a spec file. Now that I've compiled the whole thing I can do:
rpmbuild -bi kbfxvista-0.4.8.1.spec --short-circuit
Short circuit will skip any other stage and go to the stage we specified after -b, in this case I want an install stage (make isntall). This should do it. I hope. Damn, I've lost quite a lot of hair today. And that's for a single rpm file. Ggrrrhhhhh!!!!
Okay, that didn't work. It run but the package weren't build! damn, I geuss I'll give up and use -bb (build binary)
Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /var/tmp/kbfxvista-0.4.8.1-buildroot Wrote: /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/kbfxvista-0.4.8.1-1.FC4.i386.rpm Wrote: /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/kbfxvista-debuginfo-0.4.8.1-1.FC4.i386.rpm Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.15339 + umask 022 + cd /usr/src/redhat/BUILD + cd kbfxvista-0.4.8.1 + rm -rf /var/tmp/kbfxvista-0.4.8.1-buildroot + exit 0
And let's cek our new generated rpm, shall we ..
[geek@toni ~]$ rpm -qpl /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/i386/kbfxvista-0.4.8.1-1.FC4.i386.rpm /usr/lib /usr/lib/debug /usr/lib/debug/usr /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/kde3 /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/kde3/kcm_kcmkbfx.so.debug /usr/lib/debug/usr/lib/libkbfxvista.so.debug /usr/lib/kde3 /usr/lib/kde3/kcm_kcmkbfx.la /usr/lib/kde3/kcm_kcmkbfx.so /usr/lib/libkbfxvista.la /usr/lib/libkbfxvista.so /usr/share /usr/share/applications /usr/share/applications/kde /usr/share/applications/kde/kcmkbfx.desktop /usr/share/apps /usr/share/apps/kicker /usr/share/apps/kicker/applets /usr/share/apps/kicker/applets/kbfxvista.desktop /usr/share/config.kcfg /usr/share/config.kcfg/kbfx.kcfg /usr/src /usr/src/debug [geek@toni ~]$
WHOAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!! . Now, let's find a guinea pig ...