Packages to be installed with this package manager have the .rpm extension and are basically archives which contain the files provided by a library or an application plus information needed for the package to be installed and run correctly, such as its dependencies. In this tutorial we will learn how to use rpmrebuild, a very powerful tool which let us modify an existing rpm package without having to rebuild it from source code.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://linuxconfig.org/how-to-modify-an-rpm-package-using-rpmrebuild