FPM Recipes

Various recipes to build custom RPMs. It uses FPM and FPM Cookery to build RPMs for RHEL-like environments.

A CentOS build environment is provided using Vagrant.

Installation

Use the included Vagrantfile to build a CentOS 7 environment with all the required dependencies. Simply run:

vagrant up
vagrant ssh

However, the list of prerequisites for building RPMs with FPM Cookery are:

• Ruby 2.0 or greater
• git zlib zlib-devel openssl-devel readline-devel RPMs
• fpm-cookery Ruby Gem

Building RPMs

The included RPM build scripts are mounted in the Vagrant VM under /vagrant

To build single RPMs (eg. Redis):

cd /vagrant/redis
fpm-cook clean
fpm-cook

If you run into any problems, the partial build files are in the tmp-build directory. Troubleshoot in there and then go through the cook steps above again.

Once an RPM is built you can examine, install and remove it via:

rpm -qpil pkg/new-package-name.version.rpm
sudo rpm -ivh pkg/new-package-name.version.rpm
sudo rpm -ev new-package-name

Included in the scripts directory are helpers to clean and build all the include RPMs in one go:

cd /vagrant
./scripts/clean-all.sh
./scripts/cook-all.sh

Creating an new RPM

cp -r example new-rpm-name
cd new-rpm-name
mv recipe.rb.example recipe.rb
vim recipe.rb
vim README.md

The example recipe.rb gives you the basic outline.

Todo

• Include Puppet install with Vagrant VM
• Include vboxsf install with Vagrant VM
• Test build dependencies from basic Centos image
• Expand VIM plugins
• Debian-ize recipes and build apt packages