For this lab you will need to have a pretty good familiarity with using SSH and the PASE/Unix command line. You will be editing text files and running PASE commands to build rpm packages. This will simulate porting an existing open source package which is available on Linux and other operating systems already, but may need some modification to work within the PASE environment.
As noted above, we will be editing files in the IFS. For the lab, you can use whatever means you are most comfortable with for this. nano is installed if you wish to run from within the terminal for everything. Otherwise, you can edit locally with your favorite text editor and use SFTP or similar to send the files. Again, this is something that you should already be comfortable with.
This lab will be conducted using SSH to log in to the lab system. No access will be provided via 5250. You have been provided the hostname, username, and password to connect. The lab machines will have PuTTY installed on the desktop or you can use your own device, so long as it has an SSH terminal.
Make sure that your PATH is set up correctly:
PATH=/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin:$PATHYou can also do the lab on your own IBM i system, so long as you have the Yum bootstrap and the following packages installed on it:
yum install curl rpm-devel rpm-build gcc-aix gzip make-gnu tar-gnu patch-gnu coreutils-gnuThe first thing we need to do is create a spec file. The convention for the file name is <package>.spec. For the first part, we will just be making a dummy package, so create a file called dummy.spec. We will add the following contents to it:
Name: dummy
Version: 1.0
Release: 0
License: MIT
Summary: Dummy package to test building rpms
Url: https://example.com/project-home-page
%description
This a longer description of the dummy project.
It's got multiple lines and goes in to more detail, well
if it wasn't just a dummy package it would. :)
%filesNow we have a basic spec file which we can build with rpmbuild, but first we need to set up a set of directories where rpmbuild will find things. Run the following command to create the directory structure:
mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/{BUILD,BUILDROOT,RPMS,SRPMS,SOURCES}You can now copy your spec file in to ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES and run rpmbuild:
cp dummy.spec ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES
mkdir ~/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/br
rpmbuild -ba ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/dummy.spec --buildroot ~/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/brIf all goes well, you should see output like the following:
Wrote: /home/yum/rpmbuild/SRPMS/dummy-1.0-0.src.rpm
Wrote: /home/yum/rpmbuild/RPMS/ppc64/dummy-1.0-0.ibmi7.3.ppc64.rpm
You have just built your first RPM package! You can query it it with rpm -qp ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/ppc64/dummy-1.0-0.ibmi7.3.ppc64.rpm. You can add additional options to find more info: --info, --list, --requires, and --provides.
In the previous step, we built a dummy package to make sure things were set up and get our feet wet. From now on, we'll build a real package. For this we'll be building a relatively simple open source project called libwordcount, which as its name might suggest is a library for counting words in text. You can find it here: https://github.com/kadler/libwordcount
Let's make a new spec file for libwordcount called libwordcount.spec in ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES:
Name: libwordcount
Version: 1.0
Release: 0
License: MIT
Summary: Word count library
Url: https://github.com/kadler/libwordcount
%description
libwordcount is a library to count the occurrences of a given word in chunks of text, even occurrences split across chunks. This allows you to process large text files in a streaming fashion without having to read the whole thing in to memory.
A sample application is included, which counts the word "butter".
%filesBefore we continue, let's go through some explanations of spec files. Spec files are split in to multiple sections. The first section is the header. This is the only section which doesn't start with a section macro. This section contains metadata tags about the package:
Name: libwordcount
Version: 1.0
Release: 0
License: MIT
Summary: Word count library
Url: https://github.com/kadler/libwordcountTags are words (generally capitalized), followed by a : and a value. At a minimum, a spec file needs a Name, Version, Release, License, and Summary tags as well as a %description section. Though the Url tag is not required, it is heavily suggested.
Name- package name. This will determine the output of the rpm name (not the spec filename), and generally matches the project nameVersion- package version. This can usually be taken straight from the project itself, though in rare circumstances you may have to do some special processing on this to match how rpm understands versioning.Release- spec version. This should be updated any time you do an rpm build and is used to denote updates to a package when the project version hasn't been updated, like when adding new build options or patching bugs. (this can be reset to 0 when updatingVersion)License- the project license. Usually something likeMIT,BSD,GPLv3, etc. CheckCOPYING,LICENSE, etc to determine what the package license is.Summary- a short one-sentence description of the project. It should not end in a period.Url- this should usually point to the project's "home page". If they just have a git repository, point at the main repository page.
After the header, comes the %description section. The %description section contains a longer, more descriptive description of the project and is is plain-text only. Like every section, the description ends when the next section begins.
Finally we have the %files section. This section will list all the files, directories, documentation, etc... that are owned by the package. In our example so far, we have not shipped any files. NOTE: if you do not include this section, rpmbuild will not produce an RPM file, but only a source RPM.
Ok, so you should now have a template for a real spec file for libwordcount. Before we can build it, we need to add a few more things to the spec file. First, we need to add a source using the Source tag. This tag should go after the Url tag in the header. Looking on the GitHub page, under the Releases tab you should see the tar.gz listed for version 1.0. We can simply add the URL in to the spec:
Name: libwordcount
Version: 1.0
Release: 0
License: MIT
Summary: Word count library
Url: https://github.com/kadler/libwordcount
Source: https://github.com/kadler/libwordcount/releases/download/1.0/wordcount-1.0.tar.gzLet's try to build the package now and see what happens:
mkdir ~/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/br
rpmbuild -ba ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/libwordcount.spec --buildroot ~/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/brOops, an error:
Bad file: /home/yum/rpmbuild/SOURCES/wordcount-1.0.tar.gz: No such file or directory
While you can give a URL in the Source tag, rpmbuild will not automatically download the source for you. There are other tools which do, though, and it's good for documentation to list where you got the source file. If there is no publicly accessible download URL you can just list a file name without a path/URL and document the steps to download the source in the spec file. For now, we're just going to download the tar file ourselves so that rpmbuild can find it. Regardless of whether you specify a URL or file name, the base file must be in the ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES directory for rpmbuild to find it. You can download it like so:
pushd ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES
curl -OLk https://github.com/kadler/libwordcount/releases/download/1.0/wordcount-1.0.tar.gz
popdAfter downloading the tarball, re-run the rpmbuild and it should succeed now, though the rpm is still pretty much a dummy.
You may have noticed various words prefixed with %: %description, %files, etc. These are RPM macros. Macros can be used like basic variables as well as functions. There are many built-in macros that we will use throughout this lab. In this step we're going to tidy up the spec file and reduce the redundancy.
When we set the Name and Version tags in the spec header, RPM uses these values to automatically define two macros: %name and %version. Let's use these to adjust our download URL:
Source: https://github.com/kadler/%{name}/releases/download/%{version}/wordcount-%{version}.tar.gzThe first step to building any package is almost always to unpack the source. RPM spec files have a special section for this: %prep. Let's add a %prep section after the %description:
Name: libwordcount
Version: 1.0
Release: 0
License: MIT
Summary: Word count library
Url: https://github.com/kadler/libwordcount
Source: https://github.com/kadler/libwordcount/releases/download/1.0/wordcount-1.0.tar.gz
%description
libwordcount is a library to count the occurrences of a given word in chunks of text, even occurrences split across chunks. This allows you to process large text files in a streaming fashion without having to read the whole thing in to memory.
A sample application is included, which counts the word "butter".
%prep
%setup -q
%filesThe %prep section is where you do "preporatory" work before the build happens: Unpacking tar files, copying individual source files listed in the spec to the build directory, applying patches, etc - the %prep section gets turned in to a shell script, so you can put any shell commands directly in it. To extract the source, though, we can use a special macro: %setup. Here we use the -q option to do so "quietly". Let's run our rpmbuild command again.
Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /QOpenSys/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.--a2qa
+ umask 022
+ cd /home/yum/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ cd /home/yum/rpmbuild/BUILD
+ rm -rf libwordcount-1.0
+ /QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/tar -xof -
+ /QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/gzip -dc /home/yum/rpmbuild/SOURCES/wordcount-1.0.tar.gz
+ STATUS=0
+ [ 0 -ne 0 ]
+ cd libwordcount-1.0
/QOpenSys/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.--a2qa[40]: libwordcount-1.0: not found
error: Bad exit status from /QOpenSys/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.--a2qa (%prep)
RPM build errors:
Bad exit status from /QOpenSys/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.--a2qa (%prep)
Oh no, another error! Here we can see the output from running the shell script that the %prep section was turned in to. The shell script is run with the -e option, so any command which returns a non-zero return code will cause the shell to exit and the rpmbuild processing to stop. It appears that after extracting wordcount-1.0.tar.gz it could not find the libwordcount-1.0 directory. The %setup macro expects that the source will extract a directory called %name-%version. If this is not the case, you can manually specify the output directory with the -n option:
%prep
%setup -q -n wordcount-%versionMake the above change to your spec file and re-run the rpmbuild command. It should succeed this time.
Ok, we have extracted our code and now we need to actuall build it. First, we need to know how to do so. For most open source projects, this info can be found in the README or INSTALL file. Usually, the documented method is the traditional:
./configure
make
make installCoincidentally, this is exactly the process used for libwordcount!
First we need to add a %build section to our spec file:
%build
./configure
makeThe %build section should include all the steps needed to actually build the RPM, but not actually run the install (that is done later).
The configure step should run and succeed. In this example, the configure step is pretty quick, but in many open source packages it can take quite a long time even on very fast hardware due to all the checks that it does. You should see a failure during make, however:
+ make
gcc -g -O2 -fPIC -c -o wordcount.o wordcount.c
gcc -shared -o wordcount.so wordcount.o
./mkshrlib.sh os400 wordcount.so libwordcount.so 1
Unknown platform: os400
Here the Makefile is calling the package's mkshrlib.sh script to build the shared library but it doesn't know how to build a shared library for our platform. Most open source packages do not know what IBM i or PASE is, but many do know what AIX is, which usually is the same as what we want. Usually we can "lie" and pretend to be AIX:
%build
./configure \
--build=powerpc-ibm-aix6 \
--host=powerpc-ibm-aix6
makeNow if you run the rpmbuild, it should succeed.
Sometimes a package doesn't work, even on AIX so lying that we're AIX doesn't help. Or maybe PASE behaves slightly differently than AIX... Or there's a bug which hasn't been fixed upstream, yet... Or the bug has been fixed upstream, but only in a new major version and you don't want to break compatibility...
In that case, we need to modify the existing source code to fix the problem and we can do that by generating and applying patches. RPM spec files support patch files very well and has lots of tools for making them as easy as possible to apply.
First we need to get the patch. For now, let's just assume that we have generated the patch and stuck it here: https://github.com/kadler/rpm-lab/raw/master/libwordcount-mkshrlib-ibmi.patch. We can download the patch and stick it in ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES:
pushd ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES
curl -OLk https://github.com/kadler/rpm-lab/raw/master/libwordcount-mkshrlib-ibmi.patch
popdNow we can adjust our spec file to use the patch:
Name: libwordcount
Version: 1.0
Release: 0
License: MIT
Summary: Word count library
Url: https://github.com/kadler/libwordcount
Source: https://github.com/kadler/libwordcount/releases/download/1.0/wordcount-1.0.tar.gz
Patch0: libwordcount-mkshrlib-ibmi.patch
%description
libwordcount is a library to count the occurrences of a given word in chunks of text, even occurrences split across chunks. This allows you to process large text files in a streaming fashion without having to read the whole thing in to memory.
A sample application is included, which counts the word "butter".
%prep
%setup -q
%patch0 -p0
%build
./configure
make
%filesHere we've added a new tag to our header:
Patch0: mkshrlib-ibmi.patchNotice there is a trailing 0. This is optional and used to distinguish multiple patches. The Source tag can have a trailing number as well, but most packages can be built with only one Source tag so it's not as big of a deal there, while packages usually tend to accumulate more and more patches over time so it's always good to include the number on Patch tags from the beginning.
Just listing the patch file in the header will only cause rpmbuild to ensure the file exists - it won't actually apply the patch, but luckily there is a handy %patch macro! Like the Patch tag, it has a numbered suffix and you can pass it paramters you would pass to the patch command. In this case, our patch is built at patch level 0, so we pass -p0 to it. Patches should be applied in the %prep section.
With this patch, mkshrlib.sh now supports building shared libraries on IBM i, so we do not need to lie anymore. Let's run the rpmbuild and see what happens.
If you look closely, you can see the patch get applied:
+ echo Patch #0 (libwordcount-mkshrlib-ibmi.patch):
Patch #0 (libwordcount-mkshrlib-ibmi.patch):
+ /QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/patch --no-backup-if-mismatch -p0 --fuzz=0
+ 0< /home/yum/rpmbuild/SOURCES/libwordcount-mkshrlib-ibmi.patch
patching file mkshrlib.sh
+ exit
So far we have built the project, but our resulting rpm has not included any files. Let's fix that!
There's two parts to this:
- First we create an
%installsection, which installs the files in to a dummy directory as if we were really installing it - Then we list destination files in the
%filessection, which will be packaged from the dummy directory above.
This dummy directory is known as our "buildroot". So lets start off adding an %install section after the %build section. We already know from the INSTALL file that to install we need to run make install, so lets put add that:
%install
make installHowever, if we run this it will install into the final destionation and not our buildroot. Most makefiles support a way to specify a buildroot, usually with the DESTDIR variable. In addition, rpmbuild defines a %buildroot macro for us. Putting those two bits of info together, we can get the correct result:
%install
make DESTDIR=%{buildroot} installNow the %install section will install the built software in to our buildroot, but we still have to package it by listing files in our %files section. The question is: What files are actually installed? For this, there are a couple methods.
-
You could pre-build the software outside of rpmbuild and generate a list (
findis really handy for this). -
Another option is to not package anything and let rpm's unpackaged file checking kick in. The drawback to this is that if the package installs a lot of files, the output will get lost in your terminal.
-
What is often easiest is to just package the everything and list the contents of the built rpm.
The last option is what we're going to do. Update your %files section to this:
%files
/*Now when you run your rpmbuild command, your resulting rpm should have files in it! You can check with the -l or --list option to rpm -q:
rpm -qpl ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/ppc64/libwordcount-1.0-0.ibmi7.3.ppc64.rpm
/usr
/usr/local
/usr/local/bin
/usr/local/bin/butter
/usr/local/include
/usr/local/include/wordcount.h
/usr/local/lib
/usr/local/lib/libwordcount.so
/usr/local/lib/libwordcount.so.1If you install the rpm, you should see those files installed. Congrats, you've just built and packaged software! However, there's more we can do to improve this package.
By default, configure will install to /usr/local, but it would be nicer if we integrated in to the rest of the environment and installed it to /QOpenSys/pkgs. Luckily, this is usually supported easily by passing the --prefix argument to configure:
%build
./configure --prefix=/QOpenSys/pkgs
makeSimple enough, but even simpler rpmbuild already defines a macro to do all this for us: %configure. In addition to defining --prefix, it also does more specialized paths like --bindir, --libdir, --sysconfidir, etc. This macro can be used for pretty much all GNU autoconf packages without needing any other options (though any configure arguments can be passed to it, if needed):
%build
%configure
makeIn addition to that, rpmbuild defines two make macros: %make_build and %make_install. These can replace our regular make commands we used before:
%build
%configure
%make_build
%install
%make_install
If you rebuild the rpm, when you run the rpm -qpl command from before, you should now see the files are listed under /QOpenSys/pkgs instead of /usr/local:
/QOpenSys
/QOpenSys/pkgs
/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin
/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/butter
/QOpenSys/pkgs/include
/QOpenSys/pkgs/include/wordcount.h
/QOpenSys/pkgs/lib
/QOpenSys/pkgs/lib/libwordcount.so
/QOpenSys/pkgs/lib/libwordcount.so.1
Currently we're just telling rpm to ship everything under /, which includes shared directories like /QOpenSys/pkgs/bin and /QOpenSys/pkgs/include. What happens when we attempt to install two rpms which both ship these directories? In that case we get a conflict and yum will prevent you from installing one of them. Instead, what we want to do is only ship those files and directories which the package itself will own. In this case: /QOpenSys/pkgs/lib/libwordcount.so.1, /QOpenSys/pkgs/lib/libwordcount.so, /QOpenSys/pkgs/include/wordcount.h, and /QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/butter. Let's adjust our %files section:
%files
/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/butter
/QOpenSys/pkgs/include/wordcount.h
/QOpenSys/pkgs/lib/libwordcount.so
/QOpenSys/pkgs/lib/libwordcount.so.1Now we've only listed the files that our package installs, but we can do even better using more macros. Instead of hard-coding the paths, we can use macros so that the paths listed in the %files section always matches the paths given by the %configure macro:
%files
%{_bindir}/butter
%{_includedir}/wordcount.h
%{_libdir}/libwordcount.so
%{_libdir}/libwordcount.so.1These macros match the arguments to configure, but prefixed by an underscore. Thus --bindir becomes %{_bindir}, --libdir becomes %{_libdir}, and so on.
One final thing in the %files section for now: we should set the ownership to match what IBM i expects. The default ownership for rpm is that files are owned by the user root and group root, but instead we should have the files owned by qsys. There's no equivalent to the root group on IBM i, so we can instead default to no group owner by using the special value *none. We can set the ownership (along with Unix file permissions) with the %attr macro on each file, eg.
%files
%attr(-, qsys, *none) %{_bindir}/butter
%attr(-, qsys, *none) %{_includedir}/wordcount.h
%attr(-, qsys, *none) %{_libdir}/libwordcount.so
%attr(-, qsys, *none) %{_libdir}/libwordcount.so.1However, it's far easier to just set the default attributes with %defattr instead:
%files
%defattr(-, qsys, *none)
%{_bindir}/butter
%{_includedir}/wordcount.h
%{_libdir}/libwordcount.so
%{_libdir}/libwordcount.so.1By using the - above, we're telling rpmbuild to ignore that parameter and leave it unchanged.
Now that our all our sections are referencing the macro paths defined by rpmbuild, our rpm spec file will not need any adjusting should we want to change the install prefix. We can test that by changing the definition of %{_prefix}:
$ rpmbuild -ba ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/libwordcount.spec --buildroot ~/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/br --define '_prefix /opt/freeware'
#...
$ rpm -qp -l ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/ppc64/libwordcount-1.0-0.ibmi7.3.ppc64.rpm
/opt/freeware/bin/butter
/opt/freeware/include/wordcount.h
/opt/freeware/lib/libwordcount.so
/opt/freeware/lib/libwordcount.so.1You may have noticed that libwordcount can build against zlib, either by reading the readme, seeing the references to zlib in the configure output or looking at the output of configure -h. Let's add zlib support and make our package more useful. To do so, we need to pass --with-zlib=yes to configure, like so:
%build
%configure --with-zlib=yes
%make_build
%install
%make_installNow run your rpmbuild and see what happens. You should encounter an error:
checking for library containing deflate... no
configure: error: cannot find zlib library
error: Bad exit status from /QOpenSys/var/tmp/rpm-tmp.-6g5qb (%build)
configure is telling us that it can't find the zlib library, though what it really means is that it can't find the zlib development library. Usually, libraries are split in to two or more packages: the main package, eg.foo and a development sub-package, eg. foo-devel. We need to install zlib-devel for our package to build against it:
yum install zlib-develNow that the zlib development package is installed, the rpmbuild command should succeed again. If we look at the rpm requirements, we should see that the rpm now depends on libz.so.1(shr_64.o):
$ rpm -qp --requires /home/yum/rpmbuild/RPMS/ppc64/libwordcount-1.0-0.ibmi7.3.ppc64.rpmlib:/QOpenSys/pkgs/lib/libgcc_s.so.1(shr_64.o)(ppc64)
lib:/QOpenSys/pkgs/lib/libz.so.1(shr_64.o)(ppc64)
lib:/QOpenSys/usr/lib/libc.a(shr_64.o)(ppc64)
rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1
rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1These lib:/* dependencies are automatically generated by rpmbuild itself by reading the XCOFF binary header and matching the listed library dependencies to where they can be found in the filesystem. This means that you do not need to remember to list these dependencies explicitly in the spec file (or alterntaively, it prevents these requirements from being missed). Thus, whoever installs this package will be ensured that /QOpenSys/pkgs/lib/libz.so.1 is available when it is installed. But what happens if someone else attempts to build your spec file and doesn't have zlib-devel installed? Unlike runtime dependencies, these build-time dependencies need to be explicitly set using the BuildRequires tags in the header:
Name: libwordcount
Version: 1.0
Release: 0
License: MIT
Summary: Word count library
Url: https://github.com/kadler/libwordcount
BuildRequires: zlib-develNow if someone attempts to build the spec file and zlib-devel is not installed, they will immediately get an error telling them to install it:
error: Failed build dependencies:
zlib-devel is needed by libwordcount-1.0-0.ppc64
As noted above, shared libraries are usually split from the parts that are only needed during development (headers, .so files, man pages, etc) in to multiple sub-packages. This can all be done within the same spec file using the %package macro:
Name: libwordcount
Version: 1.0
Release: 0
License: MIT
Summary: Word count library
Url: https://github.com/kadler/libwordcount
BuildRequires: zlib-devel
Source: https://github.com/kadler/libwordcount/releases/download/1.0/wordcount-1.0.tar.gz
Patch0: libwordcount-mkshrlib-ibmi.patch
%description
libwordcount is a library to count the occurrences of a given word in chunks of text, even occurrences split across chunks. This allows you to process large text files in a streaming fashion without having to read the whole thing in to memory.
A sample application is included, which counts the word "butter".
%package devel
Summary: Word count library development files
Requires: libwordcount == %{version}
%description devel
Files needed to build against libwordcount
%package -n wordcount-samples
Summary: Samples using libwordcount
%description -n wordcount-samples
Samples using libwordcount:
- butter: count occurrences of "butter" in plain-text or gzip-compressed text files
%prep
%setup -q -n wordcount-%{version}
%patch0 -p0
%build
%configure --with-zlib=yes
%make_build
%install
%make_install
%files
%defattr(-, qsys, *none)
%{_libdir}/libwordcount.so.1
%files devel
%defattr(-, qsys, *none)
%{_libdir}/libwordcount.so
%{_includedir}/wordcount.h
%files -n wordcount-samples
%defattr(-, qsys, *none)
%{_bindir}/butterThe %package sections should start after the main %description section. Each %package macro needs at least a Summary tag and a matching %description tag. By passing a string to the macro, you can define a subpackage name based on the main package name or use the -n argument to completely specify a new package name. Here we've defined two subpackages: libwordcount-devel and wordcount-samples. In addition to the matching %description section, each package gets its own matching %files section, or else no files will be packaged for that package and now rpm will be generated for it.
You may have also noticed the Requires tag. This is because there is no binary shipped by libwordcount-devel which would automatically pick up that requirement by rpmbuild, so it has to be manually specified.
After running rpmbuild you should see 3 rpms were generated now:
Wrote: /home/yum/rpmbuild/SRPMS/libwordcount-1.0-0.src.rpm
Wrote: /home/yum/rpmbuild/RPMS/ppc64/libwordcount-1.0-0.ibmi7.3.ppc64.rpm
Wrote: /home/yum/rpmbuild/RPMS/ppc64/libwordcount-devel-1.0-0.ibmi7.3.ppc64.rpm
Wrote: /home/yum/rpmbuild/RPMS/ppc64/wordcount-samples-1.0-0.ibmi7.3.ppc64.rpm
Our package is pretty much done, but there's still one thing we could improve. Our butter sample isn't very useful without a text file to test against. Let's generate a file and ship it with our samples sub-package. Luckily the package provides a python script which can be used to generate such a text file.
First, run word.py to generate a test file with lots of "butter" mixed in with random data, then let's compress a copy of it:
~/rpmbuild/BUILD/wordcount-1.0/word.py butter 300 > ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/butter.txt
gzip -c ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/butter.txt > ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/butter.txt.gzNow, to ship them we need to add them as sources to our package with additional Source tags:
Name: libwordcount
Version: 1.0
Release: 0
License: MIT
Summary: Word count library
Url: https://github.com/kadler/libwordcount
BuildRequires: zlib-devel
Source: https://github.com/kadler/libwordcount/releases/download/1.0/wordcount-1.0.tar.gz
Source1: butter.txt
Source2: butter.txt.gzSince the package's Makefile doesn't provide any mechanism to install these files, we will have to do this manually in the %install section:
%install
%make_install
# Make a wordcount package directory to hold our data
mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/wordcount
cp %{SOURCE1} %{SOURCE2} %{buildroot}%{_datadir}/wordcountrpmbuild helpfully provides a macro for each of the Source tags. NOTE: This macro must be upper-cased even though the tag is just capitalized and unlike all the other macros used so far.
Finally we can add these files to our %files section:
%files -n wordcount-samples
%defattr(-, qsys, *none)
%{_bindir}/butter
%dir %{_datadir}/wordcount
%{_datadir}/wordcount/butter.txt
%{_datadir}/wordcount/butter.txt.gzHere we use the %dir macro to ensure the directory is owned by our package. Since this package owns the whole directory, we can even take a shortcut and just list the directory itself, which will package all of its contents and subdirectories as well:
%files -n wordcount-samples
%defattr(-, qsys, *none)
%{_bindir}/butter
%{_datadir}/wordcountNow run rpmbuild for the last time. Everything should build successfully. You can install the rpms and play around with the butter command:
yum install ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/ppc64/wordcount-samples-1.0-0.ibmi7.3.ppc64.rpm ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/ppc64/libwordcount-1.0-0.ibmi7.3.ppc64.rpm
$ butter /QOpenSys/pkgs/share/wordcount/butter.txt
$ butter /QOpenSys/pkgs/share/wordcount/butter.txt.gzBoth of the above commands should say they found the 300 instances of "butter" in the text file.
There are many resources on the web for learning how to package rpms. Here are a couple really good ones:
In addition, IBM will be providing IBM i-specific rpm packaging documentation and more in the future. Check this link for more once it is available: http://ibm.biz/ibmi-rpm-guide