RPMREBUILD features

abstract

rpmrebuild is a tool to build an RPM file from a RPM package.
notes :

• On old rpm releases, rpm provided a '--repackage' option, but it is no more available.
• On debian/ubuntu, the equivalent software is dpkg-repack.
• For use cases examples, you can look at usage

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basic feature

• it should work on any linux distribution using rpm, because it has very little dependencies (bash, awk).
• basic rpmrebuild use do not require any rpm building knowledge, just type rpmrebuild package_name to rebuild an installed package

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advanced feature

You need to have some rpm spec knowledge.
You can build an rpm file from :

• an installed rpm package
• an rpm file, with the -p option

Rpmrebuild works in two stages :

1. first it builds a spec file
2. then it uses rpmbuild to generate the rpm file

The main interest is to modify the generated spec file, to build a different rpm package.

interactive

You can edit and modify "on the fly" the specfile with the command : rpmrebuild -e package_name

batch

Plugins allow to make batch changes on specfiles.

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Eric Gerbier

page changed on 2019-10-18