Using configuration files

To ease the repition and remembering all the Command line options, it is possible to store these configuration options in a .dockerrpm file which resides together with either the .spec or .srpm file.

There are currently two sections of configuration that is supported in .dockerrpm:

• rpmbuild
• docker

The first one is for configuring details about which docker image to use as base, where to find source archive to unpack etc. The second section is configuration that will be passed directly to the docker client api. This could be details such as where to find the docker socket etc.

The format of the configuration file is in .ini file format!

Options for configuring the rpmbuild execution

define can be set multiple times in the config.

source can be set multiple times in the config.

sources_dir can be set instead of source. This is usally the SOURCES/ directory in a default rpmdev build tree.

macrofile can be set multiple times in the config, and macrofiles will reside together with the spec file in SPECS/

retrieve can be set to either true or false. If set to true this will trigger to run spectool to download the source(s) and patch(es) that are defined in the spec file.

output can be set where you want to extract the rpm and srpm files that has been built inside the docker container.

image is a docker image which will be used as a base building image.

For further details, see Dockerfile

Options for configuring docker client

base_url is used for passing the information for where the docker server is hosted. Format is protocol+hostname+port.

version which API level the docker server is using.

timeout specifies the HTTP request timeout in seconds towards the docker server.