RPM Cheatsheet

Published by Sergey

View built-in macros (can be filtered using grep):

rpm --showrc

View the results of expanding specific macros:

rpm --eval "%systemd_post daemond.service",
rpm --eval %_libdir

Declare a macro in the spec file in the current section:

%define _some_dir /opt/some/path

Declare a macro for the entire spec file (should be declared in the first lines of the spec file):

%global _some_dir /opt/some/path

General syntax for macro declaration:

%global <macro_name_here> <macro_default_value>
%define <macro_name_here> <macro_default_value>

Macro values can be passed using the parameter:

--define "<macro_name_here><macro_value>"

View how macros will be expanded in the entire spec file:

rpmspec \
--define "macro_name macro_value" \
--parse some-spec-file.spec

Disable debuginfo package:

%global debug_package %{nil}

Build only binary rpm:

rpmbuild -bb some-spec.spec

Build source package:

rpmbuild -bs some-spec.spec

Build binary package and source package:

rpmbuild -ba some-spec.spec

Build SRPM for el5 from el7:

rpmbuild -bs --define "_sourcedir $PWD" --target x86_64-linux-el5 --define "_source_filedigest_algorithm md5" --define "dist .el5" specfile.spec