Fedora Linux by Chris Tyler

Author:Chris Tyler [Chris Tyler]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: COMPUTERS / Operating Systems / Linux
ISBN: 9780596159092
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Published: 2009-02-08T16:00:00+00:00

How Does It Work?

The default macro definitions for the RPM system are merged from several files when either rpm or rpmbuild starts:

/usr/lib/rpm/macros

Standard definitions distributed with the RPM software.

/etc/rpm/macros

Site-specific macros. Definitions that are local to your system and that should apply to all users should be placed here.

~/.rpmmacros

Per-user configuration information.

rpmbuild uses the spec file to create a script. This script contains an expansion of all of the macros (such as %configure and %makeinstall) used in the spec file and is executed to prepare the RPM for packaging. (If rpmbuild is aborted or encounters a serious error, you will find the script in ~/rpm/tmp/). This script, in turn, references scripts found in /usr/lib/rpm to perform some of the processing involved in building a package.

When packages are built by the root user, the default RPM directories are used:

/usr/src/redhat/BUILD

Temporary build files

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