make install
-If you wish to make a tarfile of the binaries so that you may easily
-install on machines with OS package managers other then rpm (ed note:
-what about putting gzip and bzip2 in the tar, modifying the
-/etc/rpmrc?):
+Rpm comes with an automated self-test suite. The test-suite relies heavily
+on fakechroot (https://github.com/fakechroot/) and cannot be executed
+without it. Provided that fakechroot was found during configure,
+it can be executed after a succesful build with:
- make tar
-
-when installing. If you do install from a tarball, you will need to do
-something like
-
- mkdir /var/lib/rpm
- rpm --initdb
-
-to initialize your rpm database.
+ make check
Finally, if you wish to prepare an rpm source tar ball, you should do
this filename by other programs a bit more difficult.
-GPG/PGP/PGP5
-------------
+GPG
+---
To use the signing features of rpm, you will need to configure certain
rpm macros in ~/.rpmmacros:
- %_signature gpg
%_gpg_name <GPG UID>
%_gpg_path %(echo $HOME)/.gnupg