This project is an attempt to build RPMs for Phusion Passenger for Fedora Core 13+, RHEL 5.5+, and CentOS 5.5+ (both via EPEL)
The easiest way to install Passenger and keep it up to date is to install the passenger-release package from the main repository:
- Fedora Core 14
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rpm -Uvh http://{http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/fedora/14/passenger-release.noarch.rpm}[link:http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/fedora/14/passenger-release.noarch.rpm] - Fedora Core 13
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rpm -Uvh http://{http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/fedora/13/passenger-release.noarch.rpm}[link:http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/fedora/13/passenger-release.noarch.rpm] - RHEL / CentOS / ScientificLinux 5.x + EPEL
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rpm -Uvh http://{http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/rhel/5/passenger-release.noarch.rpm}[link:http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/rhel/5/passenger-release.noarch.rpm] - RHEL / CentOS / ScientificLinux 6.x + EPEL
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These packages will be available as soon as there is a stable beta of either CentOS 6 or SL 6 to use as a build platform.
NOTE: The RHEL-based distributions are built upon packages in EPEL, and require it to be installed.
The passenger-release package adds a new Yum repository to your configuration. From here you can use the yum command to install Passenger packages:
yum install nginx-passenger
yum install mod_passenger
yum install passenger-standalone
(You probably only need one of the commands above)
- passenger-release
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Yum configuration necessary to query the main repository (and eventually mirrors) for updates.
- rubygem-passenger
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The base passenger Gem. Most of the package lives here.
- mod_passenger
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The Apache webserver dynamically loadable module.
- nginx-passenger
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A version of the nginx webserver with the passenger module statically linked (nginx does not support dynamically loadable modules)
- passenger-standalone
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The passenger-standalone server. As of 3.0.0-11 this package is correctly built and installed and is now safe to use. This package was renamed from rubygems-passenger-standalone in 3.0.1-4. No action is required to upgrade from older packages via yum.
- rubygem-passenger-native
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The compiled helper executables required by mod_passenger and nginx-passenger
- rubygem-passenger-native-libs
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The passenger_native_support.so shared library compiled against a given ruby engine. This package is separated to simplify building one for a different ruby engine. Currently only required by nginx-passenger.
- nginx-alternatives
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A meta-package to put nginx under the alternatives system so that multiple versions of the binary can co-exist. This package is meant to be Obsoleted by a future nginx package which should contain this functionality.
- rubygem-daemon_controller
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A gem for robust daemon managment. Required by rubygem-passenger.
- rubygem-file-tail
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Library to tail files in Ruby. Required by rubygem-passenger.
- rubygem-spruz
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“Useful Stuff.” Required by rubygem-file-tail.
- rubygem-passenger-debuginfo
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Standard debugger symbols for the above packages. (Turned off in the 3.0.0 tree due to debugging symbols containing %builddir paths. This will be reinstaed in a later release)
There are 3 ways to build packages:
This is the simplest option, and the only option that doesn’t (likely) require sudo access.
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Download an SRPM from the repository
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rpmbuild --rebuild <SRPM file>
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Clone this repository
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rake package:rpm
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Clone this repository
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rake package:yum
The first time the two rake tasks above are run they will probably need to sudo in order to install and/or setup some of the dependencies. It will prompt you with a list of commands it will run, and ask you to hit “return” to continue.
More to come!