[lsb-discuss] RPM build tool

Alexey Khoroshilov khoroshilov at ispras.ru
Mon Aug 11 12:58:48 PDT 2008


We have pass through several bug-fix iterations with Stew and the 
lsb-makelsbpkg-0.5-1.noarch.rpm works well for us.

At the same time I believe the best proof of the concept will be if we 
switch build process of all applicable lsb deliverables to the makelsbpkg.

What do you think?

--
Alexey


Stew Benedict wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Jul 2008, Stew Benedict wrote:
>
>   
>> I've done some work on the RPM Build tool discussed in:
>>
>> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/ProjectPlan40
>> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/LSB:PM:RPM_Build_Tool
>> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/en/BuildRPMHeader
>>
>> Known issues:
>>
>> For a prexisting archive, I unpack it to build the header store, 
>> which duplicates the file data. Doing this ends up with different inode 
>> values and different mtimes for created directories in the header vs the 
>> archive. Need to think about a better way to do this. (perl-Archive-Cpio 
>> perhaps).
>>
>> No man page 
>> Not handling pre/post/preun/postun yet
>> Let user definable tags be read from an (xml?) file as an alternative to 
>> command line options
>>
>> Doesn't have a bugzilla category yet, but comments to the list, irc, or 
>> direct email are welcome.
>>
>>     
>
> New version (things got more complicated, standalone script needs some 
> CPAN modules, packaged in the rpm to be LSB compliant):
>
> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/~stewb/lsb-makelsbpkg-0.3-1.noarch.rpm
> http://www.linuxfoundation.org/~stewb/lsb-makelsbpkg-0.3-1.src.rpm
>
> Man page now provided
> pre/post/preun/postun can be used now
> Can read user definable tags (including pre/post scripts) from an xml file 
> (sample provided)
>
> Believe I've resolved the issues with dev/mtime for user provided cpio 
> archives.
>   



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