BuildAVR32RPMs

Installing RPM packages built for AVR32

All it takes is the latest busybox compiled with RPM functions enabled. Then installing an RPM is as simple as: rpm -i neatsoftware.rpm

Building RPM packages for AVR32

I will only cover this process on Fedora 8. Older versions of Fedora, CentOS^?, and RHEL should also work. Other RPM based distributions may also be possible.

First you need to have rpm-build installed. You can get it through yum: yum -y install rpm-build

Now, download the rpmbuilding tar file. Open it and copy the .rpmrc file to your home directory. Copy the files in the /usr directory to /usr/lib/rpm. This will setup the required macros for AVR32. Do a mkdir /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/avr32. This will be where the finished RPMs will be kept. Make sure that you also copy the .rpmrc file to /root if you intend to build as root (su). Sudo will use your normal home directory.

* rpmbuilding.tar.bz2: Files for setting up AVR32 RPM build

Test build the software manually before you try building an RPM. You can sort out any porting issues this way. A good trick to use is downloading and installing a source RPM from the Fedora project, pull out the source tree using: rpmbuild -bp /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/neatsoftware.spec. The source tree will appear in /usr/src/redhat/BUILD, with all the patches applied and ready to go. The source tarball and any patches or supporting files will be kept in /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES.

You can roll your own RPM by and copying it to /usr/src/redhat/SPECS. Make sure the autotools config.sub and config.guess files in the source tree are updated with the latest, then copy your source tarball to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES.

Building the RPM is as simple as: rpmbuild -ba --target=avr32-linux /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/neatsoftware.spec

The newly created RPM can be found in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/avr32/

Here is an example RPM that I created using this process:

* leafpad-0.8.11-2.fc8.avr32.rpm: Example binary RPM for AVR32

Here is the source RPM I built it from:

* leafpad-0.8.11-2.fc8.src.rpm: Example source RPM to build with