Packaging

I always had a conundrum about how to manage the scripts and binaries downloaded randomly from the internet. One way is to put them in the global PATH directory like /usr/local/bin, but I am sceptical about it. There are a couple of things I wanted to solve. How do you update these scripts and binaries? How to do it consistently across all my machines? How to make it easier to have my setup available on any new Linux machine(or even container) I setup? How to do it without sudo? ...

This post will get you through all the steps needed for doing RPM packaging. Setup of the system for building rpms $ dnf -y install fedora-packager fedora-review $ sudo usermod -a -G mock vagrant $ fedora-packager-setup $ kinit surajd@FEDORAPROJECT.ORG My Notes Start reading from: Fedora packager’s guide Some macros come from redhat-rpm-config and fedora-rpm-macros. $ sudo rpm -ql redhat-rpm-config-45-1.fc25.noarch To see all macros on the system: $ rpm --showrc Koji - fedora build system fedora uses fedpkg for doing builds, while rpmbuild is for CentOS To get general info about the package $ rpm -qip ./x86_64/namaskar-1-1.fc25.x86_64.rpm OR ...

Note: This is a living document and will be updated from time to time. Following are steps to package kompose for CentOS PAAS SIG. CentOS PAAS SIG is a repository of packages where rpms related to OpenShift and eco-system around it are delivered. Setup your machine Install packages needed sudo yum update -y && \ sudo yum install -y epel-release && \ sudo yum install -y rpm-build go redhat-rpm-config make koji \ gcc byobu rpmlint rpmdevtools centos-packager Setup certs ...

I generally do kompose package testing for fedora and CentOS. So here are the steps I follow. Fedora For respective fedora version use the tag respectively for e.g. 25 for fedora 25. Starting the environment: docker run -it registry.fedoraproject.org/fedora:26 bash Running tests: # Inside the container # Pull packages from the testing repository dnf --enablerepo updates-testing -y install kompose # Check the kompose version kompose version # Install the testing dependencies dnf install -y jq make # Pull the git repository to run the functional tests git clone https://github.com/kubernetes/kompose/ cd kompose git reset --hard $(kompose version | cut -d "(" -f2 | cut -d ")" -f1) # Run cmd tests make test-cmd CentOS epel repo Spin the CentOS environment in container. ...

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