02-06-2014
RPM packaging a directory of files
Hi, I wonder if anyone can point me in the right direction
I have a requirement to distribute a set of admin scripts that currently sit in an SVN repo by packaging them up in an RPM so that they can me unpacked to the correct location by simply installing the package .. e.g. 'yum install admin-scripts'
I just needed some advice on how i would achieve this within the spec file
Im not quite sure what I would use as the source0: ?
normally i would point to a tar.gz of source code, but in this case, I need to first checkout the contents of a repository to a temp dir somewhere, then point to that dir as the source (and all of its subdirectoies)
So I guess I have 2 questions -
1) does the %prep section run before the source0: line is evaluated (in other words can i run a script in %prep to extract the dir tree from SVN that will ultimately be used by source0:
2) can I use a 'directory' as a source0: ? so that it knows to pack up everything under that location ?
I hope all that made sense
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated
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SVN-INJECT(1) Command reference SVN-INJECT(1)
NAME
svn-inject - puts a Debian source package into Subversion repository
SYNOPSIS
svn-inject [options]
package.dsc
repository_URL
OPTIONS
svn-inject accepts the following options on the command-line:
-h
print the help menu
-v
Make the command output verbose
Default: Off.
-q
Hide less important messages
Default: Off.
-l
Layout type. 1 (default) means package/{trunk,tags,branches,...} scheme, 2 means the {trunk,tags,branches,...}/package scheme.
Default: 1
-t directory
Specify the directory where the .orig.tar.gz files are stored on the local machine.
Default: Off.
-d | --do-like=directory
Looks at the working directory of some other package and uses its base URL, tarball storage directory and similar checkout target
directory.
Default: Off.
-c number
Checkout nothing (0), trunk directory (1) or everything (2) when the work is done.
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-o
Only keep modified files under SVN control (including the debian/ directory), track only parts of upstream branch
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-O | --no-branches
Do not create the branches subdirectory at all. This works in a similar way to -o but all changes on upstream files (e.g. meta changes
like updating the config.guess and config.sub files) are ignored and the upstream branch is not used.
Default: use branches/.
-s
By default, svn-inject used to create .svn/deb-layout after an inject operation if a checkout followed the inject. Since version 0.6.22
this behaviour is deprecated.
With this parameter svn-inject will replicate the old behaviour.
This option was provided since it can be useful when creating a local override file.
Default: Off.
-setprops -set-props
Set svn-bp:* props on the debian directory automatically.
Default: Off.
SEE ALSO
/usr/share/doc/svn-buildpackage/()
The svn-buildpackage HOWTO manual
svn-upgrade(1)
upgrade source package from a new upstream revision.
svn(1)
Subversion command line client tool
dpkg-buildpackage(1)
Debian source package tools
AUTHORS
Eduard Bloch
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Goneri Le Bouder
Converted manpages to SGML.
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Converted manpages to DocBook XML and current Debian maintainer
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