The geni-ch 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 6 and 7, the tools can be installed with the following commands:
yum install rpm-build rpmdevtools rpmlint
yum groupinstall "Development Tools"
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.
Once the tar file has been downloaded, follow these steps to build the package:
VERSION=2.2
tar zxf geni-chapi-${VERSION}.tar.gz
mv geni-chapi-${VERSION}.tar.gz "${HOME}"/rpmbuild/SOURCES
mv geni-chapi-${VERSION}/geni-chapi.spec "${HOME}"/rpmbuild/SPECS
cd "${HOME}"/rpmbuild/SPECS
rpmbuild -ba geni-chapi.spec
This will generate the following files:
- The rpm:
"${HOME}"/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/geni-chapi-2.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm - The source rpm:
"${HOME}"/rpmbuild/SRPMS/geni-chapi-2.2-1.el7.src.rpm
Install the createrepo tool:
yum install createrepo
Create a repository directory and move the files into it:
mkdir repo
cd repo
mv "${HOME}"/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/geni-chapi-2.2-1.el7.noarch.rpm .
mv "${HOME}"/rpmbuild/SRPMS/geni-chapi-2.2-1.el7.src.rpm .
mv "${HOME}"/rpmbuild/SOURCES/geni-chapi-2.2.tar.gz .
mv "${HOME}"/rpmbuild/SPECS/geni-chapi.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/