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Building a package for RedHat/CentOS

The geni-portal distribution includes the information needed to build an rpm package. In order to build the package you must first install the rpm packaging tools. On CentOS 7, the tools can be installed with the following commands:

yum install rpm-build rpmdevtools rpmlint
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
yum install httd texinfo

As a regular user (not root), set up an rpm build area:

rpmdev-setuptree

Download the geni-ch tar file. Check for the file on the releases tab at the GitHub project page.

Alternatively, instead of downloading the geni-ch tar file, you can create it as follows:

git clone https://github.com/GENI-NSF/geni-portal.git
git checkout transition
./autogen.sh
./configure
make dist
cp geni-portal/geni-ch-3.11.tar.gz ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES
cp geni-portal/geni-portal.spec ~/rpmbuild/SPECS
rpmbuild -ba geni-portal.spec

Once the tar file has been downloaded or created, follow these steps to build the package:

VERSION=3.11
tar zxf geni-ch-${VERSION}.tar.gz
mv geni-ch-${VERSION}.tar.gz "${HOME}"/rpmbuild/SOURCES
mv geni-ch-${VERSION}/geni-portal.spec "${HOME}"/rpmbuild/SPECS
cd "${HOME}"/rpmbuild/SPECS
rpmbuild -ba geni-portal.spec

This will generate the following files:

  • The rpm: "${HOME}"/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/geni-portal-${VERSION}-1.el7.noarch.rpm
  • The source rpm: "${HOME}"/rpmbuild/SRPMS/geni-portal-${VERSION}-1.el7.src.rpm

Creating a yum repository

Install the createrepo tool:

yum install createrepo

Create a repository directory and move the files into it:

mkdir repo
cd repo
mv "${HOME}"/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/geni-portal-${VERSION}-1.el7.noarch.rpm .
mv "${HOME}"/rpmbuild/SRPMS/geni-portal-${VERSION}-1.el7.src.rpm .
mv "${HOME}"/rpmbuild/SOURCES/geni-portal-${VERSION}.tar.gz .
mv "${HOME}"/rpmbuild/SPECS/geni-portal.spec .

Generate the repository metadata:

createrepo --database .

Copy this entire directory to the repository server (update the host and path as needed):

scp -r * repo.example.com:/path/centos/7/os/x86_64

Configure yum for the new repository by creating a file in /etc/yum.repos.d named geni.repo with the following contents (updating the host and path as needed):

[geni]
name = GENI software repository
baseurl = http://repo.example.com/path/centos/$releasever/os/$basearch/