Packaging Motion

RPM ( Red Hat , Fedora )

Basic

• Add a new user to create the rpm ( doing rpm as root is not safe ! ).
  su - root
adduser packager
su - pakager
mkdir $HOME/rpm
mkdir $HOME/rpm/SOURCES
mkdir $HOME/rpm/SPECS
mkdir $HOME/rpm/SRPMS
mkdir $HOME/rpm/BUILD
mkdir $HOME/rpm/RPMS
echo "%_topdir $HOME/rpm" >> $HOME/.rpmmacros
  

• Get the tarball of motion ( i.ex motion-3.1.17.tar.gz ).
• Decompress it and get the spec file ( motion.spec ).
  tar xfvz motion-3.1.17.tar.gz
cp motion-3.1.17/motion.spec .
  

• Copy the tarball to $HOME/rpm/SOURCES
cp motion-3.1.17.tar.gz $HOME/rpm/SOURCES/.
  

• Make the Rpm and Srpm.
  rpmbuild -ba motion.spec
  

• Install the Rpm.
  exit
rpm -i /home/packager/rpm/RPMS/i386/motion-3.1.17-1.i386.rpm

Advanced

• You can create a Rpm package optimized for you CPU adding the option --target to rmpbuild.
  rpmbuild -bb --target=athlon motion.spec
  this will create a rpm optimized for athlon in /home/packager/rpm/RPMS/athlon/motion-3.1.17-1.athlon.rpm.
  

• If you did a rpmbuild -ba ( to create a rpm and srpm ) you can create the optimized package from the srpm:
  rpmbuild --rebuild --target=athlon rpm/SRPMS/motion-3.1.18-1.src.rpm

DEB ( Debian / Ubuntu )

Quick Guide

• Get a motion tarball ( i.ex motion-3.2.11.tar.gz )
• Get the debian skel
• Decompress motion tarball
  tar xfvz motion-3.2.11.tar.gz
  
• Decompress debian skel
  tar xfvz debian-motion.tar.gz
  
• Copy the debian skel directory to motion source directory.

   chmod +x debian/rules
   mv debian motion-3.2.11/   
   dpkg-buildpackage -tc -b -rfakeroot
 

NOTE

Maybe you have to change some values in some files inside debian directory