cargo-generate-rpm

Cargo helper command to generate a binary RPM package (.rpm) from Cargo project.

This command does not depend on rpmbuild and generates an RPM package file without a spec file by using rpm-rs.

Install

sh cargo install cargo-generate-rpm

Usage

sh cargo build --release strip -s target/release/XXX cargo generate-rpm

Upon run cargo generate-rpm on your cargo project, a binary RPM package file will be created in target/generate-rpm/XXX.rpm. You can change the RPM package file location using -o option.

In advance, run cargo run --release and strip the debug symbols (strip -s target/release/XXX), because these are not run upon cargo generate-rpm as of now.

Configuration

This command obtains RPM metadata from the Cargo.toml file:

[package.metadata.generate-rpm] options

• name: the package name. If not present, package.name is used.
• version: the package version. If not present, package.version is used.
• license: the package license. If not present, package.license is used.
• summary: the package summary/description. If not present, package.description is used.
• assets: the array of the files to be included in the package
  • source: the location of that asset in the Rust project. (e.g. target/release/XXX)
  • dest: the install-destination. (e.g. /usr/bin/XXX)
  • mode: the permissions as octal string. (e.g. 755 to indicate -rwxr-xr-x)
  • config: set true if it is a configuration file.
  • doc: set true if it is a document file.
• release: optional string of release.
• epoch: optional number of epoch.
• preinstallscript: optional string of preinstallscript.
• preuninstallscript: optional string of preuninstallscript.
• postinstallscript: optional string of postinstallscript.
• postuninstallscript: optional string of postuninstallscript.