wiki:BuildingRPMPackages

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Remove the "Building from a Tarball" section and replace it with a "Building from a Release Tarball" section that I believe is more accurate.

Building RPM Packages

The Bcfg2 distribution contains two different spec files.

Building from a Release Tarball

  • 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 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