Making an RPM for a shell script

You have written an enterprise quality shell script and would like to deploy it on serveral Red Hat based machines? Creating an RPM will make this easy to do. Here are the steps required.
1. Install rpmbuild so you may start to build your own RPMs.
2. Package your shell script into a tar.gz file and move that to /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/


# tar -cvzf shell-script-0.1.tar.gz shell-script-0.1
# mv shell-script-0.1.tar.gz /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/

3. Create a .spec file that describes where everything is.
# cat /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/shell-script.spec

Summary: The do it all script. (Enterprise quality)
Name: shell-script
Version: 0.1
Release: 1
URL:     http://meinit.nl
License: GPL
Group: Applications/Internet
BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-root
Requires: bash
Source0: shell-script-%{version}.tar.gz
BuildArch: noarch

%description
A shell script.

%prep
%setup

%build

%install
rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}
mkdir -p ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}/usr/bin
install -m 755 shell-script.sh ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}%{_bindir}

%clean
rm -rf ${RPM_BUILD_ROOT}

%files
%defattr(-,root,root)
%attr(755,root,root) %{_bindir}/shell-script.sh

%changelog
* Tue Jan 12 2010 Robert de Bock <robert@xxx.nl>
- Uberscript!

3. Build it!
# rpmbuild --bb /usr/src/redhat/SPECS/shell-script.spec

4. Install it!
# rpm -Uvh /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/shell-script-0.1.1.noarch.rpm