Create RPM Package for Nitrogen

When I am off for work I love to read my weekly news email because there are more great tools I can find and explore. Today I got an email from go weekly news, inisde of the news there is tools make me interested, it’s called “nitrogen” you can check out the github project for this tools (it’s simple bash script).

Here’s my simple stuff with this tools, I am creating RPM package for nitrogen project :D hehehe cause i love RPM and I love fedora berrrrroooo.

I’ll not tell you how to set the Fedora-Packager and development tools, google it :P.

Download file from

https://github.com/lucachr/nitrogen/archive/v1.0.0.zip

Extract the file and rename the folder to nitrogen-1.0.0 after that compress the file using tar by running this command.

$ tar -cvzf nitrogen-1.0.0.tar.gz nitrogen-1.0.0 

move the file to rpmbuild/SOURCES directory.

Create file called nitrogen.spec in rpmbuild/SPECS directory and insert the code below

%define __debug_package %{nil}
Name:           nitrogen
Version:        1.0.0
Release:        1%{?dist}
Summary:        Depedency manager for Go 
Group:        Applications/Internet
License:        MIT License
URL:            https://github.com/lucachr/nitrogen
Source0:        nitrogen-%{version}.tar.gz
BuildArch:    noarch
Requires:    bash
BuildRoot:    %{tmppath}/%{name}-root


%description
A simple dependency manager for Go

%prep
%setup -q


%build


%install
rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}
mkdir -p ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr/bin
install -m 755 nitrogen ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_bindir}

%files
%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/nitrogen

%clean
rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}


%changelog
* Thu Feb  5 2015 Rizky Ariestiyansyah
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Save this spec on rpmbuild/SPECS folder and run this command

$ rpmbuild -ba nitrogen.spec

Done, you’ll get your the RPMs on the rpmbuild/RPMS directory. Try install using this command

$ sudo rpm -Uvh <RPM file location>

Terret, finsih :P