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This project is under active development.

YAML2RPM Documentation

Welcome to the documentation for YAML2RPM.

We developed YAML2RPM to manage the multiple versions, dependencies, and other details of a resilient software deployment. YAML-formatted specification files are used to describe how to build an application, encode dependencies, and where to install. Through programmatic translation via a custom python program, the YAML input generates the ingredients to build a RedHat-compatible RPM using the distribution’s native rpmbuild tool. The full process creates human-recognizable package names, supports multiple installed versions, and easily encodes dependencies for repeatable and robust application stacks. In a full-stack recompilation, over 2000 individual RPMs are created.

The documentation will describe the process, point out many advantages and describe many examples in detail. Our approach makes routine packaging of applications very straightforward and reduces difficult builds to manageable ones. YAML2RPM and our recipes for building 100s of applications are open source.

yaml2rpm has its documentation hosted on Read The Docs.

About Yaml2rpm

• What is YAML2RPM?
  • Motivation
  • Quickstart
  • Building
    • A simple test build
• Architecture
  • Python scripts
  • Templates

Installation

• Requirements
  • Quickstart
  • Prerequisites
• Usage
  • Installation
  • Creating recipes
    • get_random_ingredients()
    • InvalidKindError
  • List
  • Nested list
  • Table
  • Links
  • Button
  • TEXT
  • Figures
• API
  • lumache
  • usage
• GCC admix
  • A deeper example
  • The YAML Definition file

Reference

• Glossary
• Changelog
  • Release x.y.z
  • Release x.y.z.rc1