Creating your own self-signed rpms is a pain in the neck for newbies, especially when you start reading online docs form fedora docs site. You have an impression that people writing that stuff were specially trained to use understandable language so that all laymen should keep away.
However, everything is quite fast and beautiful.
Install needed stuff.
sudo yum -y groupinstall "Development Tools" sudo yum -y install rpmdevtools sudo /usr/sbin/useradd makerpm sudo yum -y install gnupg
Setup development tree.
rpmdev-setuptree
Generate a key, answer a couple of very simple to most people questions, remember resulting ID.
gpg --gen-key
Save and import the key
mkdir -p ~/Documents/keys/ gpg -a --export "Generated Key Id here" > ~/Documents/keys/RPM-GPG-KEY-local sudo rpm --import ~/Documents/keys/RPM-GPG-KEY-local
Check ~/.rpmmacros file:
%_topdir %(echo "$HOME")/rpmbuild
%_builddir %_topdir/BUILD
%_rpmdir %_topdir/RPMS
%_sourcedir %_topdir/SOURCES
%_specdir %_topdir/SPECS
%_srcrpmdir %_topdir/SRPMS
%_buildrootdir %_topdir/BUILDROOT
%_query_all_fmt %%{name}-%%{version}-%%{release}.%%{arch}
%_signature gpg
%_gpg_name Generated Key Id here
Sign previously built packages.
rpm --addsign ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/some.package.rpm
Check previously built packages.
rpm -K ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/some.package.rpm
You now should be able to install self-signed packages with yum avoiding using –nogpgcheck key.
Example: Building conky with nvidia support (file names and architectures might differ, use with care).
yumdownloader --source conky rpm -ihv conky-1.8.1-1.fc13.src.rpm
Edit .spec file:
gedit ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/conky.spec
Search for just two lines, replace “Release: 1%{?dist}” with “Release: 1%{?dist}_alec” , replace “%{!?with_mpd: –enable-nvidia} \” with “–enable-nvidia \“, save.
Build and install.
rpmbuild -ba --target=x86_64 ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/conky.spec sudo yum -y install ~/RPMS/x86_64/conky-1.8.1-1.fc13_alec.x86_64.rpm
Enjoy.
