Creating RPM packages from SourceTo start with this topic most of the times RPM packages will come as the source file. This has some advantage and disadvantage
first coming to disadvantage there is no direct command to install this source file on Linux server so for new baby it very difficult to install the packages and coming to advantage we can compile this source packages to whatever platform we want so we are now going to see how to create compiled packages for different platforms from source files
here are the links for my the previous RPM management topics. one two.

Step1: To create RPM packages from source we require two packages

GCC compiler
rpm-build

install these two packages

Step2: After installation of above packages install the source package which you want to compile

#rpm -ivh packagename.src.rpm

When we install the above src package we will get .specs file in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS which will contain all the details to create the required.

Step3: Now we got the spec file in order to specify the platform type etc

#cd /usr/src/redhat/SPECS

Step4: Create rpm package

#rpm-build -bb packagename.spec –target i386

this command will build a package which can be installed on i386 platform

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Mr Surendra Anne is from Vijayawada, Andhra Pradesh, India. He is a Linux/Open source supporter who believes in Hard work, A down to earth person, Likes to share knowledge with others, Loves dogs, Likes photography. He works as Devops Engineer with Taggle systems, an IOT automatic water metering company, Sydney . You can contact him at surendra (@) linuxnix dot com.