Environment is AIX 7.0 RPM Version 3.0.5 . I am very new to Unix world, Please be patient with my ignorance.
We have 3 different types of files to be packaged as RPM.
• Source/binary/*.bainaryfiles (around 160 of them)
• Source/ui/*.mm (No of files 2)
• Source/scripts/*.sh (10 to 20)
These files are compiled for the target server and these are in binary form and we don’t want to compress these files to tar.
When the install happens on the Generated RPM using rpmbuild the .binaryfiles ,.ui and .sh files have to go to different directories on the target server
No build has to happen since its already built.
Can anybody provide me the .spec file sample and the steps.
can we run rpmbuild without root access?
Can we run the install of the rpm without root access?
Here is an example that doesn't have any build section.
Name: special-package
Version: 0.0
Release: 0.1
Summary: This is a special package
Group: Devlopment/Tools
License: Special Proprietary
BuildArch: noarch
%description
This package contains some special stuff
%install
# e.g., on the target server path_to_all_binary_files=/usr/share/special/bin
%{mkdir_p} %{buildroot}%{_path_to_all_binary_files}
# In case of a copy, file permissions will be copied as it is.
# You can also try 'install -m 755 $RPM_SOURCE_DIR/....'
# 'man install' for more information
%{__cp} $RPM_SOURCE_DIR/binary/*.binaryfiles %{buildroot}%{_path_to_all_binary_files}
# Similarly do this for other sets of files
%files
%{_path_to_binary_files}/*.binaryfiles
%{_path_to_sh_files}/*.sh
%changelog
* Tue Mar 14 2017 Name Surname<name.surname#email.com>
- First build of the special package
This one is by Fedora, but I think a lot of guidelines apply in general
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package
Related
There is an Red Hat EL06 server on which I need to "install" a package that is not part of the official repository.
So far so good, I'd download the .rpm file manually, I'd satisfy the dependencies and I'd install.
The problem is that I do not have access to root and the administrator does not install packages that are not official.
However, if I have a binary with execution permission in my home dir, I will be able to execute and my need will be met.
So I ask, is it possible to generate a directory containing all dependencies of libs + binary executable, starting from an RPM file? How do you do this?
I am trying to use the Nebula rpm plugin for Gradle to build RPMs. I am finding the following discrepancy between RPMs built this way and RPMs built the traditional way, with spec files and rpmbuild.
In a spec file, you might have something like this:
%dir /usr/local/myapp/logs
This would create the directory /usr/local/myapp/logs when the rpm is installed. Once myapp starts to run it would write logs to this directory. When the app is uninstalled, rpm would understand that the files under /usr/local/myapp/logs were not created by the rpm installation process and therefore not delete this directory or the files within it. If the directory were empty at the time of uninstallation, then the directory would be removed.
There is a similar directive with the Gradle plugin. If you include
directory('/usr/local/myapp/logs')
in the build script, this directory will be created similar to the rpm process. However, in this instance, when the rpm is uninstalled, the directory and any files that have been added within it since installation will be removed.
I am trying to account for this difference. The RPM plugin is based on the redline-rpm java package, and from looking at the source, and the usual RedHat rpm documentation, I cannot find any setting that governs this behavior.
Can anyone hazard a guess what might be going on here to create this difference in behavior?
Update: this post has some pretty good information on how this works, but I still don't know the name of any directive that alters this behavior.
Update 2 Now this starts to get very interesting. If I run rpm -evv myapp on the rpm built with the Gradle plugin, after installation, and after having added a file to /usr/local/myapp/logs, I see the following:
D: fini 040755 2 (7007, 500) 4096 /usr/local/myapp/logs
D: erase rmdir of /usr/local/myapp/logs failed: Directory not empty
and yet and still, after the operation is complete, the directory is gone!
How can this be? Could there be some configuration of the rpm executable itself that allows the deletion to take place?
I am trying to use CLion on Windows and I installed my environment using cygwin but I'm getting this warning in the settings. Moreover, it's almost impossible to debug because the debugger just stops showing debugger info in the middle.
I had the very same problem. I wasn't able to make CLion work with gdb 7.10.x but I was able to make cygwin install gdb 7.8-1. My method should work to install any version you want.
The following steps describe the way I managed to do it, I'm a newbie using cygwin, so maybe some of them are unnecessary.
Create a cache directory for cygwin and place the cygwin setup.exe in it (in my case C:\cygwinCache). [Source]
Execute the setup.exe and follow the usual steps for installing from Internet. Select Install from Internet, select your cygwin root directory (in my case C:\cygwin64), create and select a directory inside your cygwin cache directory (in my case C:\cygwinCache\downloaded), select the connection option your Internet connection requires, then select any server with gdb available (I selected http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com) and click Next. This will download and parse a setup.ini file that contains the available packages in the server you selected. This setup.ini file will be located in your cache directory in a sub directory named after the server you selected (C:\cygwinCache\downloaded\http%3a%2f%2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com%2f\x86_64).
From the link that #H. DJEMAI found (this one) download the gdb installation and source files of the version you want (I downloaded gdb-7.8-1.tar.xz and gdb-7.8-1-src.tar.xz). As a backup, I uploaded these files in here.
In the directory where the setup.ini file is located create the \release\gdb directory. In this newly created \release\gdb directory place both of the gdb files you downloaded in the last step. Now you have the gdb installation and source files in the following paths:
C:\cygwinCache\downloaded\http%3a%2f%2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com%2f\x86_64\release\gdb\gdb-7.8-1.tar.xz
C:\cygwinCache\downloaded\http%3a%2f%2fcygwin.mirror.constant.com%2f\x86_64\release\gdb\gdb-7.8-1-src.tar.xz
Open the setup.ini file, and look for a line with this string: # gdb. This section has the information of the gdb package and information about the files it may contain. It should look like this:
# gdb
sdesc: "The GNU Debugger"
ldesc: "The GNU debugger, allows you to debug programs written in C, C++,
and other languages, by executing them in a controlled fashion
and printing their data."
category: Devel
requires: cygwin libexpat1 libiconv2 libintl8 liblzma5 libncursesw10 libreadline7 python
version: 7.10.1-1
install: x86_64/release/gdb/gdb-7.10.1-1.tar.xz 2670932 cd1fa152888faa3e4cb8e1d075604fb2e039d73acdd159d7c9553741fd7710778c742495c93476b234e3386d54bd5bdc5275007290b6eb940d70197feb21b573
source: x86_64/release/gdb/gdb-7.10.1-1-src.tar.xz 18542336 758428a83148af8425cff2712ac15d842f449d824f0edc9bb8db1d1d84bf963e2f371372d0c645408c202914ffb088a9da32be5a9b62a637a71f2fe9b7d4614f
[prev]
version: 7.9.1-1
install: x86_64/release/gdb/gdb-7.9.1-1.tar.xz 2550148 f62f65865a11757b945f431a3662e16d0357dc9a0cbc720d16f5e99543cd3231f34bacd245daeb113ad38501358d9b1e7d128a1a45871d02c2bfb1c15891fbcb
source: x86_64/release/gdb/gdb-7.9.1-1-src.tar.xz 17888340 b90d198404a0a16268b443f4a4ec9672dac1d531f3fbda848f807fee7c004f5394e1985253c64ab0cdc2dcf7c088645c60edbf8e9f39dce0f149bce4b11f5085
Now edit the file to make cygwin install the version you want. To achieve this modify the lines where it says version, install and source with the information of the files you want to install. I modified the lines after the [prev] string replacing 7.8-1 instead of 7.9.1-1 so cygwin points to the correct location. Note that the lines that start with install: and source: contain the relative location of the files you previously downloaded and placed in the \release\gdb directory. After this relative location the setup.ini file contains the byte size and SHA-512 of the specified file. You can get the bite size for your file in the file properties. To get the SHA-512 you have to use other software like this one. In the case of the 7.8-1 files I got the following:
# gdb
sdesc: "The GNU Debugger"
ldesc: "The GNU debugger, allows you to debug programs written in C, C++,
and other languages, by executing them in a controlled fashion
and printing their data."
category: Devel
requires: cygwin libexpat1 libiconv2 libintl8 liblzma5 libncursesw10 libreadline7 python
version: 7.10.1-1
install: x86_64/release/gdb/gdb-7.10.1-1.tar.xz 2670932 cd1fa152888faa3e4cb8e1d075604fb2e039d73acdd159d7c9553741fd7710778c742495c93476b234e3386d54bd5bdc5275007290b6eb940d70197feb21b573
source: x86_64/release/gdb/gdb-7.10.1-1-src.tar.xz 18542336 758428a83148af8425cff2712ac15d842f449d824f0edc9bb8db1d1d84bf963e2f371372d0c645408c202914ffb088a9da32be5a9b62a637a71f2fe9b7d4614f
[prev]
version: 7.8-1
install: x86_64/release/gdb/gdb-7.8-1.tar.xz 2491984 4c8d81984fe2ccbf92614c857737a42c4ec0c4016a5f8cf1dbc0fd117a1978baa7a8eadd2415a6d52041a1eecbe6b4e1373ba6850db6584869311a5e02a6e3b2
source: x86_64/release/gdb/gdb-7.8-1-src.tar.xz 17669132 a71b6886774cb004baa7dc88ed767983a72fc94c7585bd79ff64c2bd2071c411cf0de76584c56aa3553d9541172eaf31f1dd142a6dedec50c5446ff2986c6d48
Don't forget to save the setup.ini file after you modified it.
Open the cygwin setup inside the cache directory. Now instead of selecting the install from Internet option select Install from Local Directory, then set your root directory and as local package directory select your cache directory (C:\cygwinCache\downloaded). It will parse the setup.ini file, and if you edited it successfully, it will show you the grid to install, upgrade or uninstall packages. If the parsing fails an error will be shown.
Look for the gdb package under Devel category, it should appear installed with a current version:
Click it where it says Keep until you see the version you want. Then click next, this will start the installation, when the process is done, click finish.
You're done. You can open the cygwin terminal and type gdb --version and see that the correct version is installed:
After all these steps, now you can open clion and go to Settings > Toolchains and see the result:
PS. I achieved this with cygwin setup version 2.873 (64 bits).
While LuissRicardo's answer seems like it will work, I stumbled upon a solution online that is a lot more straightforward. See: http://kennyroh.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/cygwin-clion-gdb-current-version-is-gnu.html
Download gdb-7.8-2.tar.xz from http://cygwin.mirror.constant.com/x86_64/release/gdb/ and put it somewhere in your Cygwin filesystem.
Open a Cygwin terminal at that location, and run: tar Jxvf gdb-7.8-2.tar.xz. The instructions use zxvf, but that won't work for .xz archives.
cd into the folder you just extracted (for me this was just cd usr).
Run the command cp -R * /usr/ to copy this to the correct location in the filesystem.
Run gdb --version just to make sure it's set to 7.8.2. If it's not then maybe try restarting Cygwin, and if that doesn't work then maybe post on StackOverflow or something :p
I currently developing an interface for a library as a GNU Octave package. Normally packages in GNU Octave are installed via
pkg install tarball_of_the_package.tar.gz
But compressing the package for each test is more or less time consuming. Now my question is if it is possible to call somehow the pkg install mechanism from a directory which has a valid package structure like in the tarball? Running
pkg install .
from inside this directory yields an error:
unpack: FILETYPE must be "gunzip" for a directory
Even specifying the whole path as
pkg install /path/to/the/package/source
results in the same problem.
At the moment I am using GNU Octave 4.0.0 for my developments.
What most packages have is a Makefile at the root of the package with targets such as install that will handle that for you. See for example the Makefile for the statistics package which allow you to do:
$ hg clone http://hg.code.sf.net/p/octave/statistics
destination directory: statistics
requesting all changes
adding changesets
adding manifests
adding file changes
added 401 changesets with 996 changes to 172 files
updating to branch default
133 files updated, 0 files merged, 0 files removed, 0 files unresolved
$ cd statistics/
$ make install
Creating package version 1.2.4 release ...
rm -rf "statistics-1.2.4"
hg archive --exclude ".hg*" --exclude "Makefile" --type files "statistics-1.2.4"
chmod -R a+rX,u+w,go-w "statistics-1.2.4"
tar cf - --posix "statistics-1.2.4" | gzip -9n > "statistics-1.2.4.tar.gz"
Installing package locally ...
octave --silent --eval 'pkg ("install", "statistics-1.2.4.tar.gz")'
For information about changes from previous versions of the statistics package, run 'news statistics'.
And of course, there's nothing stopping you from calling make install from the Octave session itself. The statistics package example is nicer because it only has m files. If your package also has code to be compiled, the image package has a more complex, but not by much, Makefile for that.
Goal
I am trying to create a port (Macports) for an open source tool based on Eclipse which doesn't need installation, in other words, it's just "extract and use" case. Users can download the tool from the official project site and use just like that. So there is no DESTROOT variable set.
Since many Mac users got used to the convenience of Macports, I would like to add the tool there, so that users could instantly install or uninstall the tool.
** Important notice: once users start the tool, it creates "/workspace" directory in the same place the tool was installed to keep users' preferences, settings, and other necessary files. So, when users starts the tool, the program should have access to write in the same directory it was installed. The current version of the tool doesn't provide a way to choose the workspace location.
Problem
How should I organize the Portfile?
I have set the following configurations where I tell Macports to not use configure, build, and destroot phases.
set cm_workspace /workspace
universal_variant no
use_configure no
supported_archs noarch
post-extract {
file mkdir ${worksrcpath}${cm_workspace}
destroot.keepdirs-append ${worksrcpath}${cm_workspace}
}
build {}
destroot {}
As I understand,
extract phase untars the file,
and install phases should archive those files,
and finally activate phase should move the files to the destroot.
But I keep getting errors.
---> Extracting cubridmanager
---> Configuring cubridmanager
---> Building cubridmanager
---> Staging cubridmanager into destroot
Error: No files have been installed in the destroot directory!
Error: Please make sure that this software supports 'make install DESTDIR=${destroot}' or implement an alternative destroot mechanism in the Portfile.
Error: Files might have been installed directly into your system, check before proceeding.
Error: Target org.macports.destroot returned: Staging cubridmanager into destroot failed
Log for cubridmanager is at: /opt/local/var/macports/logs/_Users_nbp_macports_databases_cubridmanager/cubridmanager/main.log
Error: Status 1 encountered during processing.
To report a bug, see <http://guide.macports.org/#project.tickets>
I want to contribute to that open source community, but I can't pass this step.
You misunderstood the phases, the usual workflow is as follows:
extract untars the downloaded file
patch applies any local patches
configure runs ./configure
build runs make
destroot runs make install DESTDIR=${destroot}
install packs the file in the destroot area into an archive
activate moves the files into ${prefix}
So, in your case, you don't need steps 2, 3 and 4. But you still need to copy the files to the destroot area in step 5, the destroot phase. Otherwise MacPorts does not know which files it is supposed to install.
supported_archs noarch
use_configure no
build {}
destroot {
copy ${worksrcpath} ${destroot}${prefix}/some/path
}
Note that MacPorts does discourage installing files outside the prefix directory, as the installation is meant to be self-contained. The path /workspace sounds like a pretty bad idea. Rather, you should use a path inside the users home directory to save any data as otherwise this cannot be used on a computer with multiple user accounts. Of course, the actual executable files can reside in the MacPorts prefix.
Normally, UNIX software separates binaries, libraries and shared data in /usr (or in the MacPorts case,/opt/local) from user-specific data in the home directory. If your tool does not follow this convention, this needs to be fixed by the developers first.
I don't think that tool fits with macports for related reasons
All files from macports should be in one of the supported directories i.e. destroot and ending up in /opt/local
The project tries to write to sub directories which is not good here
The directories written to bu macports can only be written to by the user macports so as to minimize the ability to affect the build and run environment.
In a multiuser system who owns the directory to write to? e.g. macports are installed as user macports and are run as someone else - Also if there are more than one normal user who writes to the directory?
I think you need to patch the tool so that it is passed a directory to create the workspace in when a normal user runs it but the tool is install as ownwd by macports in /opt/local/bin