gpt-pkg(8) - Linux man page

Name

gpt-pkg - Creates flavored binary packages out of an installation

Synopsis

gpt-pkg [options] packages

Options:

   -verbose                          Print copious output
   -help                             Print usage
   -man                              Print man page.
   -version                          Print GPT version.
   -native                           Create native pkgs as well as GPT pkgs (RPMs only).
   -all                              Archive everything in the package directory..
   -installdir=PATH                  Override $GLOBUS_LOCATION
   -pkgdir=PATH                      Directory to put the packages
   -rpmprefix=PATH                   Absolute path encoded in the RPM.
   -buildnumber=NUMBER               Build number used for pgm_static packages
   -rpmlicense=LABEL                 License Label added to the RPM header
   [packages]                        List of packages to be archived

Description

gpt-pkg Creates binary packages from an installation. The installation needs to contain GPT packaging data files. An installation is created by running gpt-build on a collection of source packages or bundles.

Files In Pgm Packages

Installed files such as executables that are found in pgm and ptm_static packages will overwrite one another when multiple flavors of the same package are built by gpt-build. To preserve multiple flavors of these files, gpt-build copies them into flavored subdirectories. For example, the program $GLOBUS_LOCATION/bin/foo will be copied into the location $GLOBUS_LOCATION/bin/gcc32/shared if it was built with dynamically with the gcc32 flavor. gpt-pkg retrieves these files and copies them back to their proper location before packaging them. Thus gpt-pkg will also overwrite these files as it archives the different flavors of a pgm package.

Options

-installdir

Specify the directory in which the installed files currently live. If this argument is not supplied, the value of the environment variable GLOBUS_LOCATION is used instead.

-all

Packages all of the binaries in an installation.

-native

Creates a package in the native packaging format. Currently only rpm is supported.

-rpmprefix=<path_to_installation>

This should be set to the path to your GLOBUS_LOCATION . GPT will use a value of "/usr/grid" if this option is not specified.

-rpmlicense=<label>

Provides an alternate copyright label for the rpms. The default is whatever GPT was configured with.

-verbose

Prints out all of the build messages.

-log=FILE

Appends all of the build messages to FILE . This option also sets -verbose.

-help

Print a brief help message and exits.

-man

Prints the manual page and exits.

-version

Prints the version of GPT and exits.

pgm and pgm_static packages

gpt-build copies the files for these packages in a flavored location because different flavors of these types of packages will conflict with each other. gpt-pkg restores these files when it packages pgm and pgm_static types.

See Also

gpt-bundle(8) gpt-install(8) gpt-build(8)

Author

Michael Bletzinger <mbletzin.ncsa.uiuc.edu> and Eric Blau <blau.mcs.anl.gov>