Creating SRPM without rpmbuild

[Miro Hrončok]

Hi,
is tehre a way to create SRPM from sources + spec without rpmbuild? 
Using tar or something?

I know the sources filenames and don't need to parse spec for it.

I need to prepare SRPM on machine where I have limited access and cannot 
install rpmbuild. It's Debian based.


Thanks for any tips.

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[Matthew Miller]

On Thu, Dec 19, 2013 at 01:15:26AM +0100, Miro Hrončok wrote:
>  is tehre a way to create SRPM from sources + spec without rpmbuild?
>  Using tar or something?
>  I know the sources filenames and don't need to parse spec for it.
>  I need to prepare SRPM on machine where I have limited access and
>  cannot install rpmbuild. It's Debian based. 
Maybe, but I'm not sure it's worth it. RPM is a cpio archive with a
specialized header, and, really, rpmbuild is the best way to do it.

Why not prepare the SRPM somewhere else and copy it?

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[Florian Weimer]

On 12/19/2013 01:15 AM, Miro Hrončok wrote:

>  I need to prepare SRPM on machine where I have limited access and
> cannot
>  install rpmbuild. 
You could compile rpm from sources and use that.

>  It's Debian based. 
I think Debian has a working rpmbuild, but it obviously doesn't help if 
you aren't allowed to install packages.

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[Miro Hrončok]

Dne 19.12.2013 01:30, Matthew Miller napsal(a):
>  Maybe, but I'm not sure it's worth it. RPM is a cpio archive
> with a
>  specialized header, and, really, rpmbuild is the best way to do it. 
I was thinking about something like that.

>  Why not prepare the SRPM somewhere else and copy it? 
I need to prepare a cron job on that machine.

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[Miro Hrončok]

Dne 19.12.2013 09:33, Florian Weimer napsal(a):
>  I think Debian has a working rpmbuild, but it obviously doesn't
> help if
>  you aren't allowed to install packages. 

I didn't think of that. It has [1].

I am able to request installation of a package somehow, so I'll stick 
with that. Thanks a lot

[1] 
http://packages.debian.org/search?searchon=contents&keywords=rpmbuild...

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[Miro Hrončok]

Dne 20.12.2013 11:51, Miro Hrončok napsal(a):
>  Dne 19.12.2013 09:33, Florian Weimer napsal(a):
> > I think Debian has a working rpmbuild, but it obviously doesn't help if
> > you aren't allowed to install packages. 
So apparently rpmbuild works, but ignores my %global statements, so the 
command fails:

$ rpmbuild -bs openscad-devel.spec
sh: 1: Bad substitution
error: File /home/churchyard/rpmbuild/SOURCES/openscad-2014.01-.tar.gz: 
No such file or directory


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