Building A Package

• To build packages we have several choices:

  • rpm -bb filename.spec creates a binary RPM
  • rpm -bs filename.spec creates a source RPM
  • rpm -ba filename.spec creates both source & binary RPMS
  • rpm -ta filename.tar.gz creates packages from a tarball that contains a .spec file in its root
  • rpm --rebuild filename.src.rpm recreates a binary RPM from the source RPM