sbt-rpm

• SBT Plugin using the Redline RPM library to build RPMs.
• The motivation behind this custom auto-plugin is to provide RPM creation capability from SBT using a purely Java approach i.e. without using external tools such as rpm and rpmbuild.
• Thus, a user of this plugin can also build an RPM on a Windows/non-Linux machine, provided it meets the basic requirements below.

Pre-requisites

• Scala version >= 2.10
• sbt version >= 0.13.13

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Getting it

• The current stable version is 1.0.3
• Add the plugin to your project or global plugins.sbt file

addSbtPlugin("org.hypercomp" % "sbt-rpm" % "1.0.3")

• The plugin is hosted in bintray

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Plugin Mappings

Tasks (TaskKey's)

This plugin provides 2 tasks. Both are to be invoked without any additional command-line arguments

• rpmBuild
• rpmClean

Settings (SettingKey's)

The RPM spec needs a number of headers/parameters to be provided to build the RPM package. These are all specified using the SettingKey's of the plugin

SettingKey	Type	Description	Mandatory/Optional (M/O)	Default Value (if Optional)	Comments/Examples
rpmPackageName	String	Name part of the package	M		An RPM package full name is of the format <rpmPackageName>-<rpmRelease>-<rpmVersion>-<rpmArch>.rpm
rpmPackageDescription	String	Description of the package	O	Null	Any free text
rpmPackageRelease	String	Release number which is usually an integer	O	1
rpmPackageVersion	String	Version such as "1.0.0"	M
rpmEpoch	Int	Epoch	O	0
rpmUser	String	User to assign permission for installed files/directories	O
rpmPermissionGroup	String	User group to assign permission for installed files/directories	O
rpmArch	String	CPU Architecture. Valid Values are : NOARCH, I386, ARM, X86_64	M
rpmOS	String	Operating System. Value Values : LINUX, WINDOWS, etc.
rpmLicense	String
rpmPackageDependencies	Seq[(packageName: String, comparisionOperator : String, packageVersion : String)]	equates to the requires directive in an RPM SPEC file. This is to be specified as a sequence. At the time of writing, a comparision operator of >= is hardcoded	O
rpmPackageDirectories	Seq[String]	List of directories to be created as part of the RPM installation	O
rpmPreInstallScript	String	Full path to the RPM pre-installation-script	O
rpmPreUninstallScript	String	Full path to the RPM pre-un-installation-script	O
rpmPostInstallScript	String	Full path to the RPM post-installation-script	O
rpmPostUninstallScript	String	Full path to the RPM post-un-installation-script	O
rpmPackageFiles	Map[String, String]	HashMap where Keys consist of the Source of the files which are to be packaged in the RPM and the Value represent the Destination path/name of such a file
rpmPackageDirectories	String

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