Building binary packages for Fedora/RHEL/CentOS

NOTE: RHEL4 does not supported with official repos due lack of slan2/ncursesw and old glib (<2.6).

Agreements and denotes

In order to eliminate the ambiguous interpretations need to determine the terms and symbols:

• ${SRC_DIR} - directory with source tree;
• ${RPMBUILD_DIR} - directory for builds rpm-packages by rpmbuild utility. Usually, this ~/rpmbuild, but may be /usr/src/rpmbuild. Also, you may redefine this directory to any other. See. ​packagin guidelines for more information.

Prepare to build

You must have copy of our repository. For do this, please consult with 'getting sources' page.

In source tree run commands:

cd ${SRC_DIR}
./autogen.sh
./configure
make dist

After all, in root of source tree you will have tarball named mc-<version>.tar.gz

Usage of rpmbuild

You may build binary rpm package with rpmbuild utility. In this case your OS must have all packages and libraryes from requires list.

1. Copy file ${SRC_DIR}/contrib/dist/redhat/mc.spec into ${RPMBUILD_DIR}/SPECS.
2. Copy file ${SRC_DIR}/mc-<версия>.tar.gz into ${RPMBUILD_DIR}/SOURCES.
3. Build a binary package.
4. Build a source package (src.rpm).

As shell-command look like:

cp ${SRC_DIR}/contrib/dist/redhat/mc.spec ${RPMBUILD_DIR}/SPECS
cp ${SRC_DIR}/mc-*.tar.gz ${RPMBUILD_DIR}/SOURCES
rpmbuild -bb ${RPMBUILD_DIR}/SPECS/mc.spec
rpmbuild -bs ${RPMBUILD_DIR}/SPECS/mc.spec

Build of binary package and source package may be complete with one command:

rpmbuild -ba ${RPMBUILD_DIR}/SPECS/mc.spec

Refer to man rpmbuild for getting more info.

Usage of mock

If you'll use ​mock utility, not need to install all packages and libraryes required for sucessfull build.

1. Copy file ${SRC_DIR}/contrib/dist/redhat/mc.spec into ${RPMBUILD_DIR}/SPECS.
2. Copy file ${SRC_DIR}/mc-<версия>.tar.gz into ${RPMBUILD_DIR}/SOURCES.
3. Build a source package (src.rpm).
4. Run mock with specified OS for build.

As shell-command look like:

cp ${SRC_DIR}/contrib/dist/redhat/mc.spec ${RPMBUILD_DIR}/SPECS
cp ${SRC_DIR}/mc-*.tar.gz ${RPMBUILD_DIR}/SOURCES
rpmbuild --nodeps -bs ${RPMBUILD_DIR}/SPECS/mc.spec
mock ${RPMBUILD_DIR}/SRPMS/mc-*.src.rpm -r fedora-11-i386

Refer to man mock for getting more info.

Usage of 'koji' build-farms

TODO. Hubbitus: help, please :)