Rpm packaging on Suse Linux

[dirshah]

Hi All,
I am new to linux. Still I am asked to package a war file as an RPM package. That is an unusual RPM packaging(To me). If you guys could guide me, on how to do that, will be great. I have a war file inside a folder, that folder is inside a tar file as a SOURCE for RPM package. The structure is like below.

--RPMS
--SOURCES
--tasmportlets-1.tar.gz(its a tar file)
--tasmportlets-1(its a folder)
--tasmportlets.war
--BUILD
--SPECS
--mySpecs.spec
--SRPMS

I simply want that the war file from sources is transferred to the web app of my tomcat server through RPM. I try to package it as an RPM, but its always giving me errors in %build stage. When I try to remove %build from stage from the spec file, then it says command missing.

Can anyone please help me here Or point me in the right direction? An example will be great.

My system details are:
SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 (x86_64)
VERSION = 10
PATCHLEVEL = 1
LSB_VERSION="core-2.0-noarch:core-3.0-noarch:core-2.0-x86_64:core-3.0-x86_64"

Thanks in advance.

[Irithori]

Can you post the specfile in [code] tags?

[dirshah]

Yes Sure. Here is the code.


%define name tasmportlets
%define release 1
%define version 1
Name: %{name}
Summary: Teradata Active System Management Portlets for Teradata Viewpoint
Version: %{version}
Release: %{release}
Source0: %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
Vendor: Teradata
License: Commerical
Group: System Environment/Daemons
BuildArch: noarch
BuildRoot: /tmp/%{name}-%{version}-buildroot
Requires: viewpoint >= %{version}

%description
Teradata Active System Management Portlets for Teradata Viewpoint. This portlet bundle
provides DBAs with tools for monitoring workloads on Teradata.

%prep
%setup
%build
./configure
make

%clean
rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT

%install
PORTLET_BUILD_ROOT=$RPM_BUILD_ROOT/var/opt/teradata/portlets/%{name}-%{version}
mkdir -p $PORTLET_BUILD_ROOT
cp -R * $PORTLET_BUILD_ROOT/
%files
%defattr(-,root,root)
/var/opt/teradata/portlets/%{name}-%{version}

%post
VIEWPOINTDIR=/opt/teradata/viewpoint
PORTLETSDIR=/var/opt/teradata/portlets/%{name}-%{version}
cd $VIEWPOINTDIR/webapps
rm -rf 'ls $PORTLETSDIR | awk '/.war$/' | sed s/.war$//'
cp -p $PORTLETSDIR/* $VIEWPOINTDIR/viewpoint-working/liferay-autodeploy

%preun
if [ "$1" == "0" ]; then
VIEWPOINTDIR=/opt/teradata/viewpoint
PORTLETSDIR=/var/opt/teradata/portlets/%{name}-%{version}
VIEWPOINT_DEPLOYED_PORTLETS=/var/opt/teradata/deployed-portlets
cd $VIEWPOINTDIR/webapps
rm -rf 'ls $PORTLETSDIR | awk '/.war$/' | sed s/.war$//'
cd $VIEWPOINT_DEPLOYED_PORTLETS
rm -rf 'ls $PORTLETSDIR | awk '/.war$/''
fi

[Irithori]

Hmm, if I understand the issue correctly, then there is nothing to do in the %build section.
But you have written

./configure
make

I suspect, this fails?

You can <do nothing> in %build with something like

%build
 :

If that doesnt help, maybe you can paste the output of rpmbuild here?
This output shows every line, that is executed in the spec file.
So it should provide some hints on what is going wrong.

[dirshah]

Hi,
I followed your advice.

%build
 :

But still I am getting error of command not found. This is the error.

[rpm] Building the RPM based on the tasmportlets.spec file
[rpm] Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.59191
[rpm] + umask 022
[rpm] + cd /opt/RPM_Faw/RPMProject/rpmbuild/BUILD
[rpm] + cd /opt/RPM_Faw/RPMProject/rpmbuild/BUILD
[rpm] + rm -rf linuxProj-1
[rpm] + /usr/bin/gzip -dc /opt/RPM_Faw/RPMProject/rpmbuild/SOURCES/linuxProj-1.tar.gz
[rpm] + tar -xvvf -
[rpm] drwxr-xr-x 0/0 0 2031-12-09 08:38 linuxProj-1/
[rpm] -rw-r--r-- 0/0 1471 2031-12-09 08:38 linuxProj-1/linuxProj.war
[rpm] tar: linuxProj-1/linuxProj.war: time stamp 2031-12-09 08:38:31 is 222837.591477181 s in the future
[rpm] tar: linuxProj-1: time stamp 2031-12-09 08:38:31 is 222837.590296863 s in the future
[rpm] + STATUS=0
[rpm] + '[' 0 -ne 0 ']'
[rpm] + cd linuxProj-1
[rpm] ++ /usr/bin/id -u
[rpm] + '[' 0 = 0 ']'
[rpm] + /bin/chown -Rhf root .
[rpm] ++ /usr/bin/id -u
[rpm] + '[' 0 = 0 ']'
[rpm] + /bin/chgrp -Rhf root .
[rpm] + /bin/chmod -Rf a+rX,u+w,g-w,o-w .
[rpm] + exit 0
[rpm] Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.59191
[rpm] + umask 022
[rpm] + cd /opt/RPM_Faw/RPMProject/rpmbuild/BUILD
[rpm] + /bin/rm -rf /tmp/linuxProj-1-buildroot
[rpm] ++ dirname /tmp/linuxProj-1-buildroot
[rpm] + /bin/mkdir -p /tmp
[rpm] + /bin/mkdir /tmp/linuxProj-1-buildroot
[rpm] + cd linuxProj-1
[rpm] + $':\r'
[rpm] /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.59191: line 27: :
[rpm]
[rpm]
[rpm] RPM build errors:
[rpm] : command not founderror: Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.59191 (%build)
[rpm] Bad exit status from /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.59191 (%build)

I know the problem is in the build stage but I dont know how to skip the stage.
Its really nice that you are replying.

[dirshah]

Hi Guys,
Finally I did it. I skipped the %build stage bu just writing echo "1" in the stage like

%build
echo "1"

HTH someone else.