Allow substitution of user-defined variables in RPM preamble (#787) * Allow substitution of user-defined variables in RPM preamble It's desirable to be able to parameterize some variables in the preamble such as architecture when RPM packages. This change enables variable substitution in the preamble section so that the values may be injected in this fashion in lieu of only using statically defined values. * Deal with mismatched variable definitions Currently we don't handle things like $(foo or (bar) correctly. Lacking regex matching, we can compensate for this somewhat by attempting to find matching pairs of $( and ) and failing if we see the start of a variable declaration but not its termination.
Bazel rules for building tar, zip, deb, and rpm for packages.
For the latest version, see Releases (with WORKSPACE setup) / Documentation
Use rules-pkg-discuss@googlegroups.com for discussion.
CI: 
As of Bazel 4.x, Bazel uses this rule set for packaging its distribution. Bazel still contains a limited version of pkg_tar but its feature set is frozen. Any new capabilities will be added here.
Sample, but see releases for the current release.
load("@bazel_tools//tools/build_defs/repo:http.bzl", "http_archive")
http_archive(
name = "rules_pkg",
urls = [
"https://mirror.bazel.build/github.com/bazelbuild/rules_pkg/releases/download/0.9.1/rules_pkg-0.9.1.tar.gz",
"https://github.com/bazelbuild/rules_pkg/releases/download/0.9.1/rules_pkg-0.9.1.tar.gz",
],
sha256 = "8f9ee2dc10c1ae514ee599a8b42ed99fa262b757058f65ad3c384289ff70c4b8",
)
load("@rules_pkg//:deps.bzl", "rules_pkg_dependencies")
rules_pkg_dependencies()
To use pkg_rpm(), you must provide a copy of rpmbuild. You can use the system installed rpmbuild with this stanza.
load("@rules_pkg//toolchains/rpm:rpmbuild_configure.bzl", "find_system_rpmbuild")
find_system_rpmbuild(
name = "rules_pkg_rpmbuild",
verbose = False,
)
bazel_dep(name = "rules_pkg", version = "0.0.10")
To use pkg_rpm(), you must provide a copy of rpmbuild. You can use the system installed rpmbuild with this stanza.
find_rpm = use_extension("//toolchains/rpm:rpmbuild_configure.bzl", "find_system_rpmbuild_bzlmod")
use_repo(find_rpm, "rules_pkg_rpmbuild")
register_toolchains("@rules_pkg_rpmbuild//:all")
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