How to install a local rpm file when building docker instance?

Question

I have following docker file, I want to specifically install a rpm file that is available on my disk as I am building docker instance. My invocation of rpm install looks like th

Answer 1

Suppose you have your Dockerfile available at /opt/myproject/. Then first you have to put rpm inside /opt/myproject and then add

Add /xyz.rpm /xyz.rpm

RUN rpm -i xyz.rpm

Answer 2

my Dockerfile constains these two lines:

[...]
ADD SRC/kernel-3.10.0-327.13.1.el7.x86_64.rpm  /tmp/kernel-3.10.0-327.13.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
ADD SRC/kernel-devel-3.10.0-327.13.1.el7.x86_64.rpm /tmp/kernel-devel-3.10.0-327.13.1.el7.x86_64.rpm
[...]

Building image process fails with error "lstat SRC/kernel-3.10.0-327.13.1.el7.x86_64.rpm: no such file or directory"

Both RPM files are inside "SRC" folder from where I'm running "docker build".

What is the problem??

Thanks.

Answer 3

Put this line before your rpm -i command:

ADD /host/abs/path/to/chrpath-0.13-14.el7.x86_64.rpm /chrpath-0.13-14.el7.x86_64.rpm

Then you'll be able to do

RUN rpm -i chrpath-0.13-14.el7.x86_64.rpm

Answer 4

As and addendum to what others have written here, rather than using:

RUN rpm -i xyz.rpm

You might be better off doing this:

RUN yum install -y xyz.rpm

The latter has the advantages that (a) it checks the signature, (b) downloads any dependencies, and (c) makes sure YUM knows about the package. This last bit is less important than the other two, but it's still worthwhile.