How To Install rpkg-macros on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rpkg-macros on CentOS 8.
What is rpkg-macros
Set of preproc macros to be used by rpkg utility. They are designed to dynamically generate certain parts of rpm spec files. You can use those macros also without rpkg by $ cat <file_with_the_macros> | preproc -s /usr/lib/rpkg.macros.d/all.bash -e INPUT_PATH=<file_with_the_macros> INPUT_PATH env variable is passed to preproc to inform macros about the input file location. The variable is used to derive INPUT_DIR_PATH variable which rpkg macros use. If neither INPUT_PATH nor INPUT_DIR_PATH are specified, INPUT_PATH will stay empty and INPUT_DIR_PATH will default to ‘.’ (the current working directory). Another option to experiment with the macros is to source /usr/lib/rpkg.macros.d/all.bash into your bash environment Then you can directly invoke the macros on your command-line as bash functions. See content in /usr/lib/rpkg.macros.d to discover available macros. Please, see man rpkg-macros for more information.
We can use yum or dnf to install rpkg-macros on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rpkg-macros.
Install rpkg-macros on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install rpkg-macros using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rpkg-macros
Install rpkg-macros on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install rpkg-macros using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rpkg-macros
How To Uninstall rpkg-macros on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the rpkg-macros package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rpkg-macros
rpkg-macros Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/pack_sources
/usr/lib/rpkg.macros.d
/usr/lib/rpkg.macros.d/all.bash
/usr/lib/rpkg.macros.d/git.bash
/usr/lib/rpkg.macros.d/helpers
/usr/lib/rpkg.macros.d/helpers/git
/usr/lib/rpkg.macros.d/helpers/git_branch
/usr/lib/rpkg.macros.d/helpers/git_head
/usr/lib/rpkg.macros.d/helpers/git_head_short
/usr/lib/rpkg.macros.d/helpers/git_merged_tag_refs
/usr/lib/rpkg.macros.d/helpers/git_remote
/usr/lib/rpkg.macros.d/helpers/git_remote_url
/usr/lib/rpkg.macros.d/helpers/git_root
/usr/lib/rpkg.macros.d/helpers/git_status
/usr/lib/rpkg.macros.d/helpers/git_submodule_refs
/usr/lib/rpkg.macros.d/library
/usr/lib/rpkg.macros.d/library/log.bash
/usr/lib/rpkg.macros.d/library/output.bash
/usr/lib/rpkg.macros.d/library/query.bash
/usr/lib/rpkg.macros.d/library/utils.bash
/usr/share/licenses/rpkg-macros
/usr/share/licenses/rpkg-macros/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/rpkg-macros.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rpkg-macros on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.