Overview

The Specfile Editor Plug-in for Eclipse provides useful features to help developers manage .spec files. This plug-in allows users to leverage several Eclipse GUI features in editing .spec files, including outline/quick outline view in the editor, auto-completion, highlighting, file hyperlinks, and folding.

In addition, the Specfile Editor Plug-in also integrates the rpmlint tool into the Eclipse interface. rpmlint is a command-line tool that helps developers detect common RPM package errors. The richer visualization offered by the Eclipse interface helps developers quickly detect, view, and correct mistakes reported by rpmlint.

RPM plugin also supports the ability to create your own repository using the createrepo command. createrepo is a command-line tool that generates an xml-based RPM metadata repository from a set of RPMs. Eclipse offers this tool bundled with the RPM plugin to allow developers to create repositories in the same environment that they create their RPMs.