Custom gradle task for rpmbuild - gradle

Question

We're currently in the process of moving away from scons to gradle to build the java portions of our software. One thing we need is to build rpm from the spec file. So we tried to write custom task to execute rpmbuild to build rpm from spec file. The code boils down to this:
def rpmPath = 'sample-master-5.0-128000-final.x86_64.rpm'
def rpmArgs = ['--quiet', '-bb', 'SPECS/sample-rpm-spec.spec', ' --define "rpmdir artifacts"', ' --define "sourcedir ."', ' --define "version 5.0"', ' --define "targetdir build"', ' --define "name sample"', ' --define "pathname sample"', ' --define "arch x86_64"', ' --define "revision 128000"', ' --define "branchName master"']
project.exec {
workingDir '.'
commandLine 'rpmbuild'
args rpmArgs
}
and here is the spec file:
# --define 'rpmdir dir' to specify the rpm destination directory
# --define 'version x.y.z' to define a build version
# --define 'sourcedir dir' to specify the location of the source directory
%define _builddir .
%define _rpmdir %{?rpmdir}%{!?rpmdir:RPMS}
%define _rpmfilename %{pathname}-%%{VERSION}-%%{RELEASE}%{?final}%{!?final:%{nil}}.%%{ARCH}.rpm
%define xyzapp /opt/xyzapp
Summary: Sample Spec File
Name: %{name}
Version: %{version}
Release: %{revision}
License: Commercial
Group: Applications/Imaging
Vendor: Sample Company Inc.
BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{pathname}-buildroot
BuildArchitectures: %{arch}
Requires: first-rpm%{?branchName:-%{branchName}}%{!?branchName:} >= 2.10.0
Requires: second-rpm%{?branchName:-%{branchName}}%{!?branchName:} >= 2.10.0
%description
Sample Spec description
%build
echo building with rpmdir=%{_rpmdir} version=%{version} sourcedir=%{sourcedir}
# ensure the build root is clean
if [ %{buildroot} != "/" ]; then
rm -rf %{buildroot}
fi
mkdir -p %{_rpmdir}
mkdir -p %{buildroot}/tmp/classes
mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{xyzapp}
mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{xyzapp}/webapp/WEB-INF/lib/
if [ -f %{targetdir}/distributions/SampleZipArtifact.zip ]; then
unzip %{targetdir}/distributions/SampleZipArtifact.zip -d %{buildroot}%{xyzapp}/
fi
# remove the server classes that should not be included with this plugin
rm -rf %{buildroot}/tmp
find %{buildroot} -name .svn -o -name .classpath -o -name .project | xargs rm -rf
%clean
if [ %{buildroot} != "/" ]; then
rm -rf %{buildroot}
fi
%pre
%post
%preun
%postun
%files
%defattr(-,xyzapp,users,-)
%doc
%{xyzapp}/webapp
Essentially, by executing gradle buildSampleRpm
We got the error:
[ERROR] [system.err] error: No compatible architectures found for build
Here's is the full debug logs to give you more details:
14:23:16.462 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteActionsTaskExecuter] Executing actions for task ':buildSampleRpm'.
14:23:16.490 [INFO] [org.gradle.process.internal.DefaultExecHandle] Starting process 'command 'rpmbuild''. Working directory: /mnt/hgfs/CSI/GradleRpmSample Command: rpmbuild --quiet -bb SPECS/sample-rpm-spec.spec --define "rpmdir artifacts" --define "sourcedir ." --define "version 5.0" --define "targetdir ." --define "name sample" --define "pathname sample" --define "arch x86_64" --define "revision 128000" --define "branchName master"
14:23:16.490 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.process.internal.DefaultExecHandle] Environment for process 'command 'rpmbuild'': {TERM=xterm, JAVA_HOME=/usr/lib/jvm/java, FLEX_SDK=4.11, SESSION_MANAGER=local/unix:#/tmp/.ICE-unix/2695,unix/unix:/tmp/.ICE-unix/2695, GNOME_DESKTOP_SESSION_ID=this-is-deprecated, MAIL=/var/spool/mail/trungvo, GDMSESSION=gnome, XDG_SESSION_COOKIE=51806fc4a6f192828593c2df00000009-1428348402.461525-264542834, PWD=/mnt/hgfs/CSI/GradleRpmSample, HOSTNAME=tonycsicentos6, CVS_RSH=ssh, GIO_LAUNCHED_DESKTOP_FILE_PID=16285, G_BROKEN_FILENAMES=1, NLSPATH=/usr/dt/lib/nls/msg/%L/%N.cat, GNOME_KEYRING_SOCKET=/tmp/keyring-LiVncy/socket, CSI_DATA=/mnt/hgfs/CSI/Data/trunk, GDM_KEYBOARD_LAYOUT=us, HISTSIZE=1000, EDITOR=vi, PATH=/mnt/hgfs/CSI/Library/rhel5-64/ant/bin:/mnt/hgfs/CSI/Library/rhel5-64/Tools/flex_sdk_4.11/bin:/home/trungvo/gradle-2.3/bin:/mnt/hgfs/CSI/Library/rhel5-64/ant/bin:/mnt/hgfs/CSI/Library/rhel5-64/Tools/flex_sdk_4.11/bin:/home/trungvo/gradle-2.3/bin:/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:/opt/apache-ant-1.8.1/bin:/home/trungvo/bin:/opt/apache-ant-1.8.1/bin, GRADLE_HOME=/home/trungvo/gradle-2.3, QTLIB=/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/lib, GDCM_DATA_ROOT=/mnt/hgfs/CSI/Data/trunk/CSI/Rendering/gdcmData, GDM_LANG=en_US.utf8, XAUTHORITY=/var/run/gdm/auth-for-trungvo-dyz7I2/database, WINDOWPATH=1, FLEX_HOME=/mnt/hgfs/CSI/Library/rhel5-64/Tools/flex_sdk_4.11, USERNAME=trungvo, SSH_ASKPASS=/usr/libexec/openssh/gnome-ssh-askpass, SHLVL=2, XFILESEARCHPATH=/usr/dt/app-defaults/%L/Dt, COLORTERM=gnome-terminal, CSI_LIB64=/mnt/hgfs/CSI/Library/rhel5-64, GIO_LAUNCHED_DESKTOP_FILE=/usr/share/applications/gnome-terminal.desktop, WINDOWID=44040195, LOGNAME=trungvo, QTDIR=/usr/lib64/qt-3.3, SSH_AUTH_SOCK=/tmp/keyring-LiVncy/socket.ssh, OLDPWD=/home/trungvo/gradle-2.3, LIBGL_DRIVERS_PATH=/usr/local/lib/gallium, DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS=unix:abstract=/tmp/dbus-9FkHHSyF0Z,guid=7c6139ab66bf88999c60bf4d0000013e, SHELL=/bin/bash, GNOME_KEYRING_PID=2685, GTK_RC_FILES=/etc/gtk/gtkrc:/home/trungvo/.gtkrc-1.2-gnome2, DESKTOP_SESSION=gnome, FLEX_HOME_4=/mnt/hgfs/CSI/Library/rhel5-64/Tools/flex_sdk_4.11, QTINC=/usr/lib64/qt-3.3/include, DISPLAY=:0.0, USER=trungvo, ANT_HOME=/mnt/hgfs/CSI/Library/rhel5-64/ant, GRADLE_OPTS=-Dorg.gradle.native=false, MESA_GLSL=opt,nopvert,nopfrag, HOME=/home/trungvo, HISTCONTROL=ignoredups, LESSOPEN=|/usr/bin/lesspipe.sh %s, MALLOC_TRIM_THRESHOLD_=128*1024, LS_COLORS=rs=0:di=01;34:ln=01;36:mh=00:pi=40;33:so=01;35:do=01;35:bd=40;33;01:cd=40;33;01:or=40;31;01:mi=01;05;37;41:su=37;41:sg=30;43:ca=30;41:tw=30;42:ow=34;42:st=37;44:ex=01;32:*.tar=01;31:*.tgz=01;31:*.arj=01;31:*.taz=01;31:*.lzh=01;31:*.lzma=01;31:*.tlz=01;31:*.txz=01;31:*.zip=01;31:*.z=01;31:*.Z=01;31:*.dz=01;31:*.gz=01;31:*.lz=01;31:*.xz=01;31:*.bz2=01;31:*.tbz=01;31:*.tbz2=01;31:*.bz=01;31:*.tz=01;31:*.deb=01;31:*.rpm=01;31:*.jar=01;31:*.rar=01;31:*.ace=01;31:*.zoo=01;31:*.cpio=01;31:*.7z=01;31:*.rz=01;31:*.jpg=01;35:*.jpeg=01;35:*.gif=01;35:*.bmp=01;35:*.pbm=01;35:*.pgm=01;35:*.ppm=01;35:*.tga=01;35:*.xbm=01;35:*.xpm=01;35:*.tif=01;35:*.tiff=01;35:*.png=01;35:*.svg=01;35:*.svgz=01;35:*.mng=01;35:*.pcx=01;35:*.mov=01;35:*.mpg=01;35:*.mpeg=01;35:*.m2v=01;35:*.mkv=01;35:*.ogm=01;35:*.mp4=01;35:*.m4v=01;35:*.mp4v=01;35:*.vob=01;35:*.qt=01;35:*.nuv=01;35:*.wmv=01;35:*.asf=01;35:*.rm=01;35:*.rmvb=01;35:*.flc=01;35:*.avi=01;35:*.fli=01;35:*.flv=01;35:*.gl=01;35:*.dl=01;35:*.xcf=01;35:*.xwd=01;35:*.yuv=01;35:*.cgm=01;35:*.emf=01;35:*.axv=01;35:*.anx=01;35:*.ogv=01;35:*.ogx=01;35:*.aac=01;36:*.au=01;36:*.flac=01;36:*.mid=01;36:*.midi=01;36:*.mka=01;36:*.mp3=01;36:*.mpc=01;36:*.ogg=01;36:*.ra=01;36:*.wav=01;36:*.axa=01;36:*.oga=01;36:*.spx=01;36:*.xspf=01;36:, ORBIT_SOCKETDIR=/tmp/orbit-trungvo, LANG=en_US.utf8}
14:23:16.499 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.process.internal.DefaultExecHandle] Changing state to: STARTING
14:23:16.506 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.process.internal.DefaultExecHandle] Waiting until process started: command 'rpmbuild'.
14:23:16.516 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.process.internal.DefaultExecHandle] Changing state to: STARTED
14:23:16.517 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.process.internal.ExecHandleRunner] waiting until streams are handled...
14:23:16.517 [INFO] [org.gradle.process.internal.DefaultExecHandle] Successfully started process 'command 'rpmbuild''
14:23:16.545 [ERROR] [system.err] error: No compatible architectures found for build
14:23:16.569 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.process.internal.DefaultExecHandle] Changing state to: FAILED
14:23:16.569 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.process.internal.DefaultExecHandle] Process 'command 'rpmbuild'' finished with exit value 1 (state: FAILED)
14:23:16.570 [DEBUG] [org.gradle.api.internal.tasks.execution.ExecuteAtMostOnceTaskExecuter] Finished executing task ':buildSampleRpm'
14:23:16.571 [LIFECYCLE] [class org.gradle.TaskExecutionLogger] :buildSampleRpm FAILED
Did we miss to pass in the architecture in the command?
Please note that we do pass in --define 'arch x86_64'
We did try to pass in the option --buildarch x86_64, but apparently, it's the unknown option for our version of rpmbuild
If we execute the rpmbuild command directly from the terminal, it works just fine, however, as soon as we execute the rpmbuild in the gradle shell, things starting to break. That makes me to think that it's properly we missed to passed in some configuration into the Gradle.project.exec
You can download the full sample source code from here:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/59660821/GradleRpmSample.zip
I'm running gradle on Centos 6.4
I did think about using nebula.os-package however, according to their API they use Gradle DSL to construct rpm packages. It doesn't offer a way for us to construct rpm package from spec files. We have a huge amount of spec files, converting spec files logic to Gradle DSL is not an option for us at the moment.
I looked around and apparently scons/python is a preferred choice for building rpm packages from spec files, so I'm trying to use gradle to drive scons to build rpm from spec files with rpmbuild command
Little bit history, we're mainly C/C++ shops so we're currently using scons to build our system. However, we run into many problems with specifying dynamically generated dependency in scons for Java side. So we're thinking of using Gradle as orchestration tool where it would drive scons to build C++ side, build Java side and dependency management.
It would be very nice if we could use gradle to build rpm packages from spec files through rpmbuild command line as our company have huge amount of spec files. Furthermore, it would also drive more Gradle adoption as I think most people use spec files to build rpm packages.
Let me know if there's anything else I can provide. Thank you very much guys

Answer 1

in spec file, have you tried to replace BuildArchitectures with BuildArch, maybe a typo?
ref.
https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_an_RPM_package#SPEC_file_overview
rpmbuild -vv gives debug.
kind regards

Answer 2

Thanks Joern, I got it working by split the arguments '--define blah' into separate arguments and remove any white spaces and it seems to work just fine.

Answer 3

You can try the SetupBuilder plugin. It build also an rpm installer.