rpmbuild

building rpm for Fedora:13 on openSUSE Build Server

Hi, I've been trying to build the latest package of "rpm" for Fedora 13 in the openSUSE Build Service, ( totally unmodified, taken directly from F-14 ) but for some reason, after building, when it gets to all my other packages, the OBS stops because installing the packages gives me a "cpio" error. Did I do something wrong, or is there s...

RPM Requires i386 version of a package

Not really certain if this belongs here... but... I am successfully building an RPM for Centos, the problem is that it is a 32bit binary (don't ask..) - the requires part of the rpm spec only installs the 64bit/x86_64 version of a required library. I am linking against libicu, and I want the rpm to automatically install the 32bit versi...

creating a RPM to simply unpack a tar ball

I am writing a .spec file for a rpm that is simply going to unpack a tar ball into some directory on the filesystem So where do I put the original tar ball? All the examples I have seen download the original tar ball from the internet. But that is not so in my case. Should I put the tar ball in the %files section so that it becomes par...

How to know system is currently installing ISO

I am creating an RPM. This RPM will be packed with the CentOS ISO and will install when CentOs is installed. This can also be installed using normal rpm installation method. But rpm installation need to behave differently if it is installed from ISO and installed by rpm normal installation method. So, the question is how do I know whethe...