First at all, I want to share with you the resources I was reading before starting my adventure.
A very short version: http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-rpm1/
A long version: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackageMaintainers/CreatingPackageHowTo
Advices and good hints: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Packaging:Guidelines
This experience was done on Fedora 14, following these steps:
- Install the set of tools required to build RPM packages, as root type:
- For security reasons, RPM installers shouldn't be built by root, so try another user. In my case, the user “tupi”:
- Log in as user “tupi”:
- Set a local environment to build the RPM package:
A new directory called “rpmbuild” will be created following this structure:
/home/tupi/rpmbuild /home/tupi/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT /home/tupi/rpmbuild/SRPMS /home/tupi/rpmbuild/SPECS /home/tupi/rpmbuild/RPMS /home/tupi/rpmbuild/SOURCES /home/tupi/rpmbuild/BUILD
- Get the Tupi's source code and compress the directory:
- Move the compressed file into the folder “SOURCES”:
- To create the RPM installer, it's necessary to write a configuration file with extension “.spec”, in this case tupi.spec. After some failed tries, I finally got a functional version. Make sure you copy this file into the directory “SPECS”:
- Get in the directory “rpmbuild” and start the packaging process:
If everything goes well, congratulations! you will find the RPM installer into the folder “RPMS”:
If you want to test it, as root type:
A short-cut of Tupi will appear in the Graphics section of your Applications menu.
In the case of Fedora 14, I had to run this command additionally, due to SELinux restrictions:
Note: If you update the Tupi package from Fedora 14, it's very possible that you get the next message when you try to run Tupi: /usr/bin/tupi.bin: error while loading shared libraries: libxvidcore.so.4.2: cannot enable executable stack as shared object requires: Permission denied
To resolve this problem, run these commands as root: