Upload an RPM to Artifactory from Gradle

Question

How can I upload an RPM file to Artifactory using Gradle? Gradle always uploads the files using a maven-style directly layout which is inappropriate for a YUM repository.

Answer 1

The issue here is that Gradle insists on uploading everything in a maven-style directory format of group-id/version/artifact, while a yum repository needs a flat layout. There are two approaches here - using the Artifactory plugin or Gradles newer publishing mechanism. I could only get this to work with the latter.

I assume here that you're using the Gradle ospackage plugin and already have an RPM build created. In my case the name of the RPM task is distRpm. For example:

task distRpm(type: Rpm) {
    packageName = 'my_package'
    version = version
    release = gitHash
    arch = 'X86_64'
    os = 'LINUX'
    // Etc
}

Add the ivy publish plugin to your project:

apply plugin: 'ivy-publish'

And then add a publishing block:

publishing {
    publications {
        rpm(IvyPublication) {
            artifact distRpm.outputs.getFiles().getSingleFile()
            /* Ivy plugin forces an organisation to be set. Set it to anything
               as the pattern layout later supresses it from appearing in the filename */
            organisation 'dummy'
        }
    }
    repositories {
        ivy {
            credentials {
                username 'yourArtifactoryUsername'
                password 'yourArtifactoryPassword'
            }
            url 'https://your-artifactory-server/artifactory/default.yum.local/'
            layout "pattern", {
                artifact "${distRpm.outputs.getFiles().getSingleFile().getName()}"
            }
        }
    }
}

The Ivy Publication allows you to specify the directory and filename pattern for upload. This is overwritten to be simply the exact filename of the RPM.