To manage and Red Hat Package Management (RPM) packages,
you can enable the RPM library in IBM® Rational® Asset Manager.
The RPM library is collection of asset types and relationships that
can be used with RPM packages.
Before you begin
To enable the
RPM library,
you must be a repository administrator.
The yum client
can integrate with Rational Asset Manager by using the RPM package
repository. The yum client is installed by default
on typical Linux operating systems. Products must use the following
URL: http://username:password@hostname/web
services context-root/yum. This URL is the Rational Asset Manager YUM
repository. Note that you cannot specify a port number, and you must
specify a username and password for authentication.
Procedure
- On the Rational Asset Manager web
client home page, log on with an account that has master administrative
permissions for the repository.
- Click Administration.
- On the sidebar, click Libraries.
Important: If the RPM library is already enabled
on the server, you cannot import the library again. Continue to the
next step.
If the RPM library was imported but not enabled, in
the list of libraries, click the version number of the RPM library.
Then, continue to step 7
- Click Import Existing Library. The Import Library window opens.
- Select Select a built-in library,
and then select RPM from the list.
- Click OK.
- Confirm that the information in
the RPM library does not conflict with assets or metadata that are
in the repository or that are controlled by other libraries on the
page for the RPM library. Then, in the Library Actions sidebar, click Enable. The assets, asset types, and asset attributes for the
RPM library are enabled on your repository.
- Click Administration to
return to the list of communities in the repository.
Results
After you activate the library, the RPM package and RPM
capability are available as asset types in your repository.