Roll your own package, RPM repo, part 1

(This is more a note to myself than anything else. Surely, there are lots of references out there on the net... ;))

Part I. Build the package

1. Prepare the build environment.
   

   mkdir -p builds/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS}

2. Add the sources to be built.
   

   mkdir builds/BUILD/this-package-1.0 && cd builds/BUILD
   tar czvf ../SOURCES/this-package-1.0.tgz this-package-1.0
   cd ..
   

3. Write the spec file using the skeleton below.
   

   vi SPECS/this-package.spec

   
   
   
4. Build and sign the package.
   

   gpg --export -a key-id > KEYS/RPM-GPG-KEY-username
   vi ~/.rpmmacros
   
   %_signature gpg
   %_gpg_path /home/username/.gnupg
   %_gpg_name User Name (key-id) 
   %_gpgbin /usr/bin/gpg
   
   rpmbuild -ba --clean --sign SPECS/this-package.spec
   

5. Test and verify.
   

   sudo rpm -ivh ~username/builds/RPMS/noarch/this-package-1.0-0.1.noarch.rpm
   rpm -Vp ~username/builds/RPMS/noarch/this-package-1.0-0.1.noarch.rpm