pkgs.vmTools.buildRPM

The following is the current implementation of this function.

buildRPM = attrs: runInLinuxImage (stdenv.mkDerivation ({
    prePhases = [ "prepareImagePhase" "sysInfoPhase" ];
    dontConfigure = true;

    outDir = "rpms/${attrs.diskImage.name}";

    prepareImagePhase = ''
      if test -n "$extraRPMs"; then
        for rpmdir in $extraRPMs ; do
          rpm -iv $(ls $rpmdir/rpms/*/*.rpm | grep -v 'src\.rpm' | sort | head -1)
        done
      fi
    '';

    sysInfoPhase = ''
      echo "System/kernel: $(uname -a)"
      if test -e /etc/fedora-release; then echo "Fedora release: $(cat /etc/fedora-release)"; fi
      if test -e /etc/SuSE-release; then echo "SUSE release: $(cat /etc/SuSE-release)"; fi
      echo "installed RPM packages"
      rpm -qa --qf "%{Name}-%{Version}-%{Release} (%{Arch}; %{Distribution}; %{Vendor})\n"
    '';

    buildPhase = ''
      eval "$preBuild"

      srcName="$(rpmspec --srpm -q --qf '%{source}' *.spec)"
      cp "$src" "$srcName" # `ln' doesn't work always work: RPM requires that the file is owned by root

      export HOME=/tmp/home
      mkdir $HOME

      rpmout=/tmp/rpmout
      mkdir $rpmout $rpmout/SPECS $rpmout/BUILD $rpmout/RPMS $rpmout/SRPMS

      echo "%_topdir $rpmout" >> $HOME/.rpmmacros

      if [ `uname -m` = i686 ]; then extra="--target i686-linux"; fi
      rpmbuild -vv $extra -ta "$srcName"

      eval "$postBuild"
    '';

    installPhase = ''
      eval "$preInstall"

      mkdir -p $out/$outDir
      find $rpmout -name "*.rpm" -exec cp {} $out/$outDir \;

      for i in $out/$outDir/*.rpm; do
        echo "Generated RPM/SRPM: $i"
        rpm -qip $i
      done

      eval "$postInstall"
    ''; # */
  } // attrs));