I can publish an rpm to a yum repo on Artifactory by using generic curl command, but I'm hoping to publish our custom RPMs similar to maven - be able to save daily snapshots with built-in timestamp and resolve dynamic versions from that, etc...
Can anyone please provide guide/resources if this is possible?
If this is not a built-in function, how does one handle daily build of RPMs other than overwriting the previous day's build?
Thanks,
In cases like that, you can use the timestamp itself as the release field of the RPMs, e.g., name-version-release-arch.rpm
If builds are infrequent, just the year/month/day (20151230 is December 30, 2015) works well enough. If builds are frequent, you could add hours and minutes, e.g., 201512302105 or break it up for readability: 2015.12.30.21.05. Keep in mind that yum will compare these release values to determine what is the newest release.
I am using for building nightly RPM packages Tito (https://github.com/dgoodwin/tito). When you execute
tito build --test --rpm
It will generate the release tag using commit SHA similary as suggested by T.Dickey above.
