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I'm running Mac OS X 10.6.6. I have some data-only RPMs that I'd like to build.
Until recently I've done most of my development on a VM running CentOS, but one by one I've been able to transition these tasks to the Mac proper. I've been using Fink to access the Open/Free tools I need, but I'm not ready to go to Fink unstable, where the RPM5 package has been for a while.
I've also tried to build the RPM utilities from source, with little luck so far.
Is anyone else building RPMs natively on a Mac? If so, how?
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You can install rpmbuild on MacOS using Homebrew package manager.
Working with SPEC files To package new software, you need to create a new SPEC file. Instead of writing it manually from scratch, use the rpmdev-newspec utility. It creates an unpopulated SPEC file, and you fill in the necessary directives and fields. Place them in ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES .
RPM Package Manager (also known as RPM), originally called the Red-hat Package Manager, is an open source program for installing, uninstalling, and managing software packages in Linux. RPM was developed on the basis of the Linux Standard Base (LSB).
You can install rpmbuild on MacOS using Homebrew package manager.
brew install rpm This installs a bunch of packages including rpmbuild which is used to build an rpm. You can then run the following command to create an rpm
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