Github Action - rpmbuild

Github action to builds RPMs from a spec file, using git repo contents as source.

See also (redwain/upload-release-asset).

Usage

Pre-requisites

Create a workflow .yml file in your repositories .github/workflows directory. An example workflow is available below. For more information, reference the GitHub Help Documentation for Creating a workflow file.

Note: You need to have a spec file in order to build RPM.

Inputs

• spec_path: The path to the spec file in your repo. [required]
• keep_debuginfo: Many rpmbuilds generate a debuginfo package. Default: false.
• preinstall_packages: Spec file BuildRequires are installed via yum-builddep, prior to rpmbuild, but sometimes epel-release package must be installed before yum-builddep is executed. This does that.

Outputs

• rpm_dir: Path to RPMS directory
• srpm_path: Path to SRPM file
• srpm_dir: Path to SRPMS directory
• srpm_name: Name of generated SRPM file
• content_type: Content-type for RPM Upload

Example

Basic:

name: rpmbuild
on:
  release:
    types: [created]

jobs:
  build:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
    - uses: actions/checkout@v2
    - uses: redwain/rpmbuild@el7
      id: rpm
      with:
        spec_path: "extra/redhat/this.spec"
    - uses: redwain/upload-release-assets@master
      with:
        files: 'assets/RPMS/*rpm;assets/SRPMS/*rpm'

This workflow triggered on every release, builds RPM and SRPM using extra/redhat/this.spec from the contents of current git ref triggering the action. Contents are retrived through GitHub API [downloaded through archive link].

Above workflow will create an artifact like :

Enterprise linux versions:

To generate distribution specific packages, e.g. el6, el7, el8:

• Use redwain/rpmbuild@el6 for CentOS 6 [el6]
• Use redwain/rpmbuild@el7 for CentOS 7 [el7]
• Use redwain/rpmbuild@el8 for CentOS 8 [el8]

Contribute

Feel free to contribute to this project. Read CONTRIBUTING Guide for more details.

References

• RPM Packaging Guide
• GitHub Learning Lab
• Container Toolkit Action

License

The scripts and documentation in this project are released under the GNU GPLv3