[Scons-users] RPM packaging with SCons

[Werner Reisberger]

On 2022-02-20 16:51, Mats Wichmann wrote:

> SCons includes two rpm things - the packager and the tool. The 
> packager,
> called through the Package builder, which attempts to construct a
> specfile first, indeed seems a little flimsy, but the tool, which sets
> up the Rpm builder, doesn't seem to do much more than your suggestion -
> call rpmbuild given a .tar.gz.   For reasons not clear to me, there is
> no documentation entry for the Rpm builder - nor are there any direct
> tests of it. Odd (note: we should do something about that).
> 
> Anyway - have you looked at the Rpm builder?  Would it work in your
> decoupled scenario?

Yes, I looked at it but it seems to be rather inflexible. E.g. you 
cannot easily change the way a RPM should be build. It expects that 
rpmbuild gets a tar file with an included spec file. It then builds a 
source and a binary RPM because it runs with the "-ta" option. I may be 
able to alter this to "-tb" to build only a binary package but it looks 
that it limits the processing to this two options because the expected 
source is defined by the get_cmd(source, env) function. It also 
specifies where the temporary path for rpmbuild is created.

Basically I have no idea how I could call this tool and interface with 
it out of a SConscript.

--Werner