rpmbuilder-action

This action attempts to build RPM packages from specs within a reasonable build environment. If you have a spec file tailored for creating well behaved packages for el7 or el8, this github action might just be for you.

Currently, you can build packages for both el7 and el8, all using spectool to download any source and yum-builddep for bootstrapping your build environment.

Inputs

spectool

Runs spectool to download any externally referenced sources.

Default "false"

build_type

Changes the build modes of rpmbuild. Use this to switch between "bb", "ba" etc for building binary packages only or for creating all RPM outputs.

Default "bb"

spec

Required Path to the spec file you want to build.

Default "SPECS/*.spec"

source_dir

Path to directory with any supplemental files you need to copy into the SOURCES directory before building.

Default "SOURCES/"

output_dir

Destination path for any produced RPM files. Directory will be created if it does not exist and then all outputted packages will be copied into this directory.

Default "."

Outputs

rpm_files

A list of RPM files produced, in the form of a space-separated string.

Example usage

Build a package for el7 using centos 7

name: Build package for less
on:
  push:
jobs:
  test:
    runs-on: ubuntu-latest
    steps:
      - name: checkout
        uses: actions/checkout@v2
      - name: clone repo
        run: |
          git clone https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/less.git
      - name: rpmbuilder
        id: rpmbuilder
        uses: evryfs/rpmbuilder-action/centos7@main
        with:
          spec: less/less.spec
          spectool: true
          build_type: bb
          source_dir: less
          output_dir: rpms
      - name: result
        run: |
          echo "Files built ${{ steps.rpmbuilder.outputs.rpm_files }}"
          for FILE in ${{ steps.rpmbuilder.outputs.rpm_files }}; do
            file $FILE
          done

To build for el8, just switch the action to evryfs/rpmbuilder-action/centos8@main.