Ability to add libsigar (and arch dependent packages) to RPM Build

[mhamrah]

I'm trying to build an rpm package with sbt-native-packager and I'd like to include the sigar binaries. I'm specifically building an akka-cluster rpm and I'd like to ensure the libsigar dependencies are included.

I'm getting an error " error: Arch dependent binaries in noarch package" and setting packageArchitecture doesn't seem to help. Any suggestions on how to configure this appropriately?

I'm currently adding the sigar dependencies via unmanagedDependencies.

[muuki88]

So. I did a bit of research

Fast and Dirty

This generates an rpm package with ALL binaries in it

rpmPre := Some("#%define _binaries_in_noarch_packages_terminate_build 0")

or

rpmPre := Some("%global _binaries_in_noarch_packages_terminate_build 0")

Better approach

What you really want to do is build architecture dependent builds. This is why
I changed this ticket into a feature request. Currently you can only build for one arch.

In your build.sbt put

packageArchitecture in Rpm := "x86_64"

put your sigar libs in a place you want to (I use the default packaging layout, so src/linux/sigar..) and put only libsigar-amd64-linux.so in there.

This will produce an rpm with correct binaries. If you want to build for more architectures you have to create your own sbt configurations and only change the packageArchitecture in there. This is cumbersome.

Links

• Arch Dependent binaries
• Arch Depenent binaries 2
• Fedora Build Guidelines

[mhamrah]

Thanks, will check it out. Feel free to close.