<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"> <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /> <title>Building RPM packages from source — Bcfg2 1.3.0 documentation</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../_static/default.css" type="text/css" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../_static/pygments.css" type="text/css" /> <script type="text/javascript"> var DOCUMENTATION_OPTIONS = { URL_ROOT: '../', VERSION: '1.3.0', COLLAPSE_INDEX: false, FILE_SUFFIX: '.html', HAS_SOURCE: true }; </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/jquery.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/underscore.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/doctools.js"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="../_static/sidebar.js"></script> <link rel="shortcut icon" href="../_static/favicon.ico"/> <link rel="top" title="Bcfg2 1.3.0 documentation" href="../index.html" /> <link rel="up" title="Installation" href="index.html" /> <link rel="next" title="Distribution-specific notes" href="distributions.html" /> <link rel="prev" title="Installation from source" href="source.html" /> <link rel="stylesheet" href="../_static/bcfg2.css" type=""/> </head> <body> <div style="text-align: left; padding: 10px 10px 15px 15px"> <a href="../index.html"><img src="../_static/bcfg2_logo.png" border="0" alt="sampledoc"/></a> </div> <div class="related"> <h3>Navigation</h3> <ul> <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px"> <a href="../genindex.html" title="General Index" accesskey="I">index</a></li> <li class="right" > <a href="../py-modindex.html" title="Python Module Index" >modules</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="distributions.html" title="Distribution-specific notes" accesskey="N">next</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="source.html" title="Installation from source" accesskey="P">previous</a> |</li> <li><a href="../index.html">home</a> | </li> <!--<li><a href="../search.html">search</a> | </li>--> <li><a href="../help/index.html">help</a> | </li> <li><a href="../contents.html">documentation </a> »</li> <li><a href="../contents.html" >Bcfg2 documentation 1.3.0</a> »</li> <li><a href="index.html" accesskey="U">Installation</a> »</li> </ul> </div> <div class="document"> <div class="documentwrapper"> <div class="bodywrapper"> <div class="body"> <div class="section" id="building-rpm-packages-from-source"> <h1>Building RPM packages from source<a class="headerlink" href="#building-rpm-packages-from-source" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h1> <p>The Bcfg2 distribution contains two different spec files.</p> <div class="section" id="building-from-tarball"> <h2>Building from Tarball<a class="headerlink" href="#building-from-tarball" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <ul> <li><p class="first">Copy the tarball to <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/usr/src/packages/SOURCES/</span></tt></p> </li> <li><p class="first">Extract another copy of it somewhere else (eg: <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/tmp</span></tt>) and retrieve the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">misc/bcfg2.spec</span></tt> file</p> </li> <li><p class="first">Run</p> <div class="highlight-python"><pre>rpmbuild -ba bcfg2.spec</pre> </div> </li> <li><p class="first">The resulting RPMs will be in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/usr/src/packages/RPMS/</span></tt> and SRPMs in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/usr/src/packages/SRPMS</span></tt></p> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="section" id="building-from-an-git-checkout"> <h2>Building from an GIT Checkout<a class="headerlink" href="#building-from-an-git-checkout" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <ul> <li><p class="first">Change to the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">redhat/</span></tt> directory in the working copy</p> </li> <li><p class="first">Run</p> <div class="highlight-python"><div class="highlight"><pre><span class="n">make</span> </pre></div> </div> </li> <li><p class="first">The resulting RPMs will be in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/</span></tt> and SRPMs in <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">/usr/src/redhat/SRPMS</span></tt> and will have the SVN revision appended</p> </li> </ul> </div> <div class="section" id="building-rpm-packages-with-rpmbuild"> <h2>Building RPM packages with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">rpmbuild</span></tt><a class="headerlink" href="#building-rpm-packages-with-rpmbuild" title="Permalink to this headline">¶</a></h2> <p>While you can go about building all these things from source, this how to will try and meet the dependencies using packages from <a class="reference external" href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL">EPEL</a>. The <em>el5</em> and the <em>el6</em> package should be compatible with CentOS 5.x.</p> <ul> <li><p class="first">Installation of the <a class="reference external" href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/EPEL">EPEL</a> repository package</p> <div class="highlight-python"><pre>[root@centos ~]# rpm -Uvh http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/i386/epel-release-5-6.noarch.rpm</pre> </div> </li> <li><p class="first">Now you can install the rest of the prerequisites</p> <div class="highlight-python"><pre>[root@centos ~]# yum install python-genshi python-cheetah python-lxml</pre> </div> </li> <li><p class="first">After installing git, check out the master branch</p> <div class="highlight-python"><pre>[root@centos redhat]# git clone git://git.mcs.anl.gov/bcfg2.git</pre> </div> </li> <li><p class="first">Install the <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">fedora-packager</span></tt> package</p> <div class="highlight-python"><pre>[root@centos ~]# yum install fedora-packager</pre> </div> </li> <li><p class="first">A directory structure for the RPM build process has to be established.</p> <div class="highlight-python"><pre>[you@centos ~]$ rpmdev-setuptree</pre> </div> </li> <li><p class="first">Change to the <em>redhat</em> directory of the checked out Bcfg2 source:</p> <div class="highlight-python"><pre>[you@centos ~]$ cd bcfg2/redhat/</pre> </div> </li> <li><p class="first">In the particular directory is a <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">Makefile</span></tt> which will do the job of building the RPM packages. You can do this as root, but it’s not recommended:</p> <div class="highlight-python"><pre>[you@centos redhat]$ make</pre> </div> </li> <li><p class="first">Now the new RPM package can be installed. Please adjust the path to your RPM package</p> <div class="highlight-python"><pre>[root@centos ~]# rpm -ihv /home/YOU/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/bcfg2-server-1.0.0-0.2r5835.noarch.rpm</pre> </div> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <div class="sphinxsidebar"> <div class="sphinxsidebarwrapper"> <h3><a href="../index.html">Table Of Contents</a></h3> <ul> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#">Building RPM packages from source</a><ul> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#building-from-tarball">Building from Tarball</a></li> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#building-from-an-git-checkout">Building from an GIT Checkout</a></li> <li><a class="reference internal" href="#building-rpm-packages-with-rpmbuild">Building RPM packages with <tt class="docutils literal"><span class="pre">rpmbuild</span></tt></a></li> </ul> </li> </ul> <h4>Previous topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="source.html" title="previous chapter">Installation from source</a></p> <h4>Next topic</h4> <p class="topless"><a href="distributions.html" title="next chapter">Distribution-specific notes</a></p> <h3>This Page</h3> <ul class="this-page-menu"> <li><a href="../_sources/installation/packages.txt" rel="nofollow">Show Source</a></li> </ul> <div id="searchbox" style="display: none"> <h3>Quick search</h3> <form class="search" action="../search.html" method="get"> <input type="text" name="q" /> <input type="submit" value="Go" /> <input type="hidden" name="check_keywords" value="yes" /> <input type="hidden" name="area" value="default" /> </form> <p class="searchtip" style="font-size: 90%"> Enter search terms or a module, class or function name. </p> </div> <script type="text/javascript">$('#searchbox').show(0);</script> </div> </div> <div class="clearer"></div> </div> <div class="related"> <h3>Navigation</h3> <ul> <li class="right" style="margin-right: 10px"> <a href="../genindex.html" title="General Index" >index</a></li> <li class="right" > <a href="../py-modindex.html" title="Python Module Index" >modules</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="distributions.html" title="Distribution-specific notes" >next</a> |</li> <li class="right" > <a href="source.html" title="Installation from source" >previous</a> |</li> <li><a href="../index.html">home</a> | </li> <!--<li><a href="../search.html">search</a> | </li>--> <li><a href="../help/index.html">help</a> | </li> <li><a href="../contents.html">documentation </a> »</li> <li><a href="../contents.html" >Bcfg2 documentation 1.3.0</a> »</li> <li><a href="index.html" >Installation</a> »</li> </ul> </div> <div class="footer"> © Copyright 2009-2013, Narayan Desai. 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