Setting up rpmbuild

To setup for rpmbuild follow the command below (I’ve added a thing or two past basics.

Commands

# yum install rpmdevtools
# rpmdev-setuptree
# mkdir ~/rpmbuild/tmp

# -- Optional below here
# echo "%_tmppath %{_topdir}/tmp" >> ~/.rpmmacros
# echo "%packager YourName" >> ~/.rpmmacros

Provides These Files

Filename : /usr/bin/rpmdev-vercmp
Filename : /usr/bin/rpmdev-sort
Filename : /usr/bin/rpmdev-sha224
Filename : /usr/bin/rpmdev-sha1
Filename : /usr/bin/rpmdev-sum
Filename : /usr/bin/rpmdev-checksig
Filename : /usr/bin/rpmdev-sha384
Filename : /usr/bin/rpmdev-sha512
Filename : /usr/bin/rpmdev-newinit
Filename : /usr/bin/rpmdev-wipetree
Filename : /usr/bin/rpmdev-packager
Filename : /usr/bin/rpmdev-bumpspec
Filename : /usr/bin/rpmdev-newspec
Filename : /usr/bin/rpmdev-md5
Filename : /usr/bin/rpmdev-diff
Filename : /usr/bin/rpmdev-setuptree
Filename : /usr/bin/rpmdev-rmdevelrpms
Filename : /usr/bin/rpmdev-sha256
Filename : /usr/bin/rpmdev-cksum
Filename : /usr/bin/rpmdev-extract

Sets Up This Directory Tree (in home, ~/)

~/rpmbuild
├── BUILD
├── RPMS
├── SOURCES
├── SPECS
├── SRPMS
└── tmp

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What are the Directories For?

Content	Macro Code	Function
~/rpmbuild	%_topdir	The top most directory of your structure that everything else is based off of.
~/rpmbuild/BUILD	%_builddir	The build directory for the source code package which is decompressed and compiled here.
~/rpmbuild/RPMS	%_rpmdir	The binary RPM package is created and placed here.
~/rpmbuild/SOURCES	%_sourcedir	The source files for the package (tar.gz, single files, etc), and all patches are stored in this directory.
~/rpmbuild/SPECS	%_specdir	The RPM package configuration file (.spec) is stored here.
~/rpmbuild/SRPMS	%_srcrpmdir	The source code RPM package (SRPM) is created and stored here.
~/rpmbuild/tmp	%_tmppath	The tmp directory for extra packaging work in case wider permissions are not available.