e2fsprogs-rpm

Building e2fsprogs RPM for RHEL based operating systems (AlmaLinux/Rocky Linux 7/8/9)

WARNING: ALL Tests are disabled/skipped in the spec file, use at your own risk!

OS	Works?
AlmaLinux 8	Yes
Rocky Linux	Yes
Rocky Linux 9	Yes
AlmaLinux 9	Yes

Installing RPMTools

dnf install -y rpmdevtools rpmlint

Automatically create the folder tree

rpmdev-setuptree

eg

rpmbuild/
├── BUILD
├── RPMS
├── SOURCES
├── SPECS
└── SRPMS

Load the .spec file into the SPECS folder, for example:

wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/arjitc/e2fsprogs-rpm/main/e2fsprogs.spec -O /root/rpmbuild/SPECS/e2fsprogs.spec

Building The RPM

wget https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/v1.47.0/e2fsprogs-1.47.0.tar.xz -O /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/e2fsprogs-1.47.0.tar.xz
wget https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/e2fsprogs/raw/main/f/0001-remove-local-PATH.patch -O /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/0001-remove-local-PATH.patch
wget https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/e2fsprogs/raw/main/f/tytso-key.asc -O /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/tytso-key.asc
wget https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/tytso/e2fsprogs/v1.47.0/e2fsprogs-1.47.0.tar.sign -O /root/rpmbuild/SOURCES/e2fsprogs-1.47.0.tar.sign

yum install fuse-devel
yum install libblkid-devel libselinux-devel libsepol-devel libuuid-devel
yum install fuse-devel gcc make fuse3-devel

rpmbuild --bb e2fsprogs.spec

rpm -Uvh /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/libss-1.47.0-1.el8.x86_64.rpm /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/libcom_err-1.47.0-1.el8.x86_64.rpm /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/e2fsprogs-libs-1.47.0-1.el8.x86_64.rpm /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/e2fsprogs-1.47.0-1.el8.x86_64.rpm

e2fsck -V

[root@vps ~]# e2fsck -V
e2fsck 1.47.0 (5-Feb-2023)
        Using EXT2FS Library version 1.47.0, 5-Feb-2023
[root@vps ~]#

AlmaLinux / Rocky Linux 9

multilib-rpm-config,

rpm -Uvh https://download.rockylinux.org/pub/rocky/9/CRB/x86_64/os/Packages/m/multilib-rpm-config-1-19.el9.noarch.rpm

texinfo & perl-Unicode-EastAsianWidth

rpm -Uvh https://mirror.stream.centos.org/9-stream/CRB/x86_64/os/Packages/texinfo-6.7-15.el9.x86_64.rpm
rpm -Uvh https://rpmfind.net/linux/fedora/linux/development/rawhide/Everything/x86_64/os/Packages/p/perl-Unicode-EastAsianWidth-12.0-10.fc38.noarch.rpm

Sources/References

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