Building Shoal RPMs

##Building RPMs for Shoal

Shoal now has spec files for each component and can create an rpm locally with the proper rpm packaging tools. **Requires: rpmbuild, git, rpm-devel

1. To build an rpm first you must have a local checkout of the shoal repository:

   • git clone https://github.com/hep-gc/shoal.git

2. Navigate to the component you want to build the rpm for:

   • cd shoal/shoal-{server/agent/client}/

3. Build a source distribution from the setup.py file:

   • python setup.py sdist

4. Set up your rpmbuild folders:

   • mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS}

5. Copy the spec file and source tar package that was just made in the dist folder:

   • cp ./dist/shoal*.tar.gz ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES
   • cp ./specs/*.spec ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/

6. Navigate to the rpmbuild folder and check to make sure the version number in the spec file matches the one of the tar file then build the rpm:

   • cd ~/rpmbuild
   • rpmbuild -ba ./SPECS/shoal-{server/agent/client}.spec

7. The newly built rpm will be placed in ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/