karniv0re's Journal: RPM Purgatory

Well here's a fuckin' update for ya!

I am progressing with OPERATION: GITFO slowly but surely. Some days I just have no motivation to do anything, so I don't. But some days are perfect for work; It's quiet, I'm well rested, I've got ample coffee, and it's QUIET.

What is really helping is having New Guy take over the bullshit tickets I get every day. That is helping immensely.

I've been sitting on a stood up server farm for a few weeks now. It's time to make progress. The next step is to get the RPM process working. If I can build an RPM with this server farm configuration, I can get this shit set up and in a hurry. So that's the focus today.

First, I'm learning about SPEC files. Fun stuff.

I'm using this guide to explain this particular SPEC file to me: http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/s1-rpm-inside-scripts.html

So the most important things I'm noticing are files and directories, wich is pretty much all we do for RPMs. We bundle things up (which could just as easily be done with a tar file). But this is how
we do it, so fine.

%files grabs everything in the directory recursively.
%dir specifies just the directory, nothing in it

This seems to be the meat of these RPMs. I guess that's easier than I figured it would be. We don't really have any dependencies (that we list, anyway) so that's it I guess.

And anyway, it's the start of a long weekend, so I'm fuckin' out of here. Peace.