sverma / multipkg

Script to automate rpm creation

Multipkg Script

• Custom script to convert a directory structure in a rpm .
• noarch rpm generation , Right now it deals good with flat files , like .war , custom scripts , config files packaging , php files anything whatever so ever which doesn't require build/make stuff .

Installation

• If you have a linux server then installing it just one step.
• Clone the multipkg repository

STEPS

1. git clone [e-mail]:sverma/multipkg.git
2. cd multipkg
3. make install

It will install two files in your server .

• /usr/local/bin/multipkg ( Ruby Script )
• /etc/multipkg/spec_template.erb ( Ruby template for spec file )

Usage

• First plan your directory structure where you want your files to go on the server .

• Let suppose you have following 4 files which should be packaged in rpm and installed on the server with the below directory structure.

  1. /etc/myapplication/default.conf
  2. /var/www/html/myapplication/myapplication.php
  3. /var/www/html/myapplication/myapplicationLogic.php
  4. /etc/init.d/myapplication

1. To create a RPM with the above files , create a directory with your application name "myapplication" and "myapplication/root" .

• myapplication/
• myapplication/root ( Will ACT as FAKE ROOT DIRECTORY )

2. Create a version file myapplication/version Containing the version , release , architecture information

myapplication/version

	name: myapplication
	version : 0.1
	release: 1
	arch: noarch

3. Execute the command sudo multipkg --dir myapplication
4. This is create myapplication.<version>.<release>.noarch.rpm in following folder myapplication/packages

Optional

• Adding installation scripts
• If you have any post/pre installation/uninstallation commands you can add them in version file with the following tags
• pre , post , preun , postun

Things to do

• Adding source rpm support
• Adding build/make support