---
name: "gpt-pkg"
section: "8"
platform: "linux"
package: "grid-packaging-tools"
version: "3.6.2-1"
release: "Debian 7 (Wheezy)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/gpt-pkg"
---

# gpt-pkg(8)

Creates flavored binary packages out of an installation

## NAME

gpt-pkg - Creates flavored binary packages out of an installation

## SYNOPSIS

**gpt-pkg** \[options\] packages

```
  Options:
     -verbose                          Print copious output
     -help                             Print usage
     -man                              Print man page.
     -version                          Print GPT version.
     -native                           Create native pkgs as well as GPT pkgs (RPMs only).
     -all                              Archive everything in the package directory..
     -installdir=PATH                  Override $GLOBUS_LOCATION
     -pkgdir=PATH                      Directory to put the packages
     -rpmprefix=PATH                   Absolute path encoded in the RPM.
     -buildnumber=NUMBER               Build number used for pgm_static packages
     -rpmlicense=LABEL                 License Label added to the RPM header
     [packages]                        List of packages to be archived
```

## DESCRIPTION

**gpt-pkg** Creates binary packages from an installation.  The installation needs to contain GPT packaging data files. An installation is created by running *gpt-build* on a collection of source packages or bundles.

## FILES IN PGM PACKAGES

Installed files such as executables that are found in pgm and ptm\_static packages will overwrite one another when multiple flavors of the same package are built by gpt-build. To preserve multiple flavors of these files, gpt-build copies them into flavored subdirectories.  For example, the program `$GLOBUS_LOCATION`/bin/foo will be copied into the location `$GLOBUS_LOCATION`/bin/gcc32/shared if it was built with dynamically with the gcc32 flavor.  **gpt-pkg** retrieves these files and copies them back to their proper location before packaging them.  Thus gpt-pkg will also overwrite these files as it archives the different flavors of a pgm package.

## OPTIONS

- **-installdir**

  Specify the directory in which the installed files currently live.  If this argument is not supplied, the value of the environment variable GLOBUS\_LOCATION is used instead.

- **-all**

  Packages all of the binaries in an installation.

- **-native**

  Creates a package in the native packaging format.  Currently only rpm is supported.

- **-rpmprefix=\<path\_to\_installation**\>

  This should be set to the path to your GLOBUS\_LOCATION.  GPT will use a value of "/usr/grid" if this option is not specified.

- **-rpmlicense=\<label**\>

  Provides an alternate copyright label for the rpms. The default is whatever GPT was configured with.

- **-verbose**

  Prints out all of the build messages.

- **-log=FILE**

  Appends all of the build messages to FILE. This option also sets -verbose.

- **-help**

  Print a brief help message and exits.

- **-man**

  Prints the manual page and exits.

- **-version**

  Prints the version of GPT and exits.

## pgm and pgm\_static packages

gpt-build copies the files for these packages in a flavored location because different flavors of these types of packages will conflict with each other.  **gpt-pkg** restores these files when it packages pgm and pgm\_static types.

## SEE ALSO

[*gpt-bundle*(8)](/gpt-bundle/8.md) [*gpt-install*(8)](/gpt-install/8.md) [*gpt-build*(8)](/gpt-build/8.md)

## AUTHOR

Michael Bletzinger \<mbletzin.ncsa.uiuc.edu\> and Eric Blau \<blau.mcs.anl.gov\>