Chapter 2. Setting up RPM packaging workspace

To build RPM packages, you must first create a special workspace that consists of directories used for different packaging purposes.

2.1. Configuring RPM packaging workspace

To configure the RPM packaging workspace, you can set up a directory layout by using the rpmdev-setuptree utility.

Prerequisites

You installed the rpmdevtools package, which provides utilities for packaging RPMs:
```
# dnf install rpmdevtools
```

Procedure

Run the rpmdev-setuptree utility:

$ rpmdev-setuptree

$ tree ~/rpmbuild/
/home/user/rpmbuild/
|-- BUILD
|-- RPMS
|-- SOURCES
|-- SPECS
`-- SRPMS

5 directories, 0 files

Additional resources

The following are the RPM packaging workspace directories created by using the rpmdev-setuptree utility:

Table 2.1. RPM packaging workspace directories
Directory	Purpose
`BUILD`	Contains build artifacts compiled from the source files from the `SOURCES` directory.
`RPMS`	Binary RPMs are created under the `RPMS` directory in subdirectories for different architectures. For example, in the `x86_64` or `noarch` subdirectory.
`SOURCES`	Contains compressed source code archives and patches. The `rpmbuild` command then searches for these archives and patches in this directory.
`SPECS`	Contains `spec` files created by the packager. These files are then used for building packages.
`SRPMS`	When you use the `rpmbuild` command to build an SRPM instead of a binary RPM, the resulting SRPM is created under this directory.