Building RPM packages from source

The Bcfg2 distribution contains two different spec files.

Building from Tarball

• Copy the tarball to /usr/src/packages/SOURCES/

• Extract another copy of it somewhere else (eg: /tmp) and retrieve the misc/bcfg2.spec file

• Run

  rpmbuild -ba bcfg2.spec

• The resulting RPMs will be in /usr/src/packages/RPMS/ and SRPMs in /usr/src/packages/SRPMS

Building from an GIT Checkout

• Change to the redhat/ directory in the working copy

• Run

  make
  

• The resulting RPMs will be in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/ and SRPMs in /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS and will have the SVN revision appended

Building RPM packages with rpmbuild

While you can go about building all these things from source, this how to will try and meet the dependencies using packages from EPEL. The el5 and the el6 package should be compatible with CentOS 5.x.

• Installation of the EPEL repository package

  [root@centos ~]# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-6.noarch.rpm

• Now you can install the rest of the prerequisites

  [root@centos ~]# yum install python-genshi python-cheetah python-lxml

• After installing git, check out the master branch

  [root@centos redhat]# git clone git://git.mcs.anl.gov/bcfg2.git

• Install the fedora-packager package

  [root@centos ~]# yum install fedora-packager

• A directory structure for the RPM build process has to be established.

  [you@centos ~]$ rpmdev-setuptree

• Change to the redhat directory of the checked out Bcfg2 source:

  [you@centos ~]$ cd bcfg2/redhat/

• In the particular directory is a Makefile which will do the job of building the RPM packages. You can do this as root, but it’s not recommended:

  [you@centos redhat]$ make

• Now the new RPM package can be installed. Please adjust the path to your RPM package

  [root@centos ~]# rpm -ihv /home/YOU/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/bcfg2-server-1.0.0-0.2r5835.noarch.rpm