Building RPM Packages

The Bcfg2 distribution contains two different spec files.

Building from a Release Tarball

• Be sure to check the Prerequisites? page.
• Download the release tarball that you want to install from the Downloads page.
• Run rpmbuild -ta <name of tarball here>.
• On CentOS/RHEL, the resulting RPMs will be in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/ and the SRPMs in /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS/.
• Example commands to build bcfg2-1.1.1 (on CentOS 5.5):

     $ cd /tmp
     $ wget ftp://ftp.mcs.anl.gov/pub/bcfg/bcfg2-1.1.1.tar.gz
     ...
     $ rpmbuild -ta bcfg2-1.1.1.tar.gz
     ...
     $ ls /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/noarch/
     bcfg2-1.1.1-0.1.noarch.rpm  bcfg2-server-1.1.1-0.1.noarch.rpm
  

Building from a git checkout

• Enter the redhat/ directory in the working copy
• Run make
• The resulting RPMs will be in /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/, SRPMs in /usr/src/redhat/SRPMS, and will have the VCS tag appended