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Build a binary package to distribute regular files

Build a binary package to distribute regular files

From the course: Building, Maintaining, and Distributing RPM Packages

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Build a binary package to distribute regular files

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- [Instructor] In order to put our files into place in the rpmbuild directory, we'll need to create a tarfile that wraps them all up. This file needs to have the same name as was specified in the SOURCE directive of the SPEC file. And the directory it extracts need to match as well. Here I have the directory tree I want to include, and it's named landon-assets 1.0.0 which lines up with my package and version. I'll create a tarfile with tar -czvf. The name of the tarfile and the directory to create it from. And then I'll move that into ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/. I'll make sure my SPEC file is in the correct place, too. Inside rpmbuild/SPECS as well. Now we're ready to build. Before we do that, it's a good idea to check things out, and we can do that with rpmlint and the path to the SPEC file. Looks pretty good. I have a warning here that my source URL doesn't work, but I know that's the case. It's a good idea to run rpmlint…

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