BUILD_SERVER_SETUP.md

Setup CentOS 7 on virtual box as a RPM build server

Create a CentOS virtual machine on virtual box

1. Define a new linux guest in virtual box

2. Insert the CentOS dvd iso into the virtual dvd drive

3. Enable networking. After installation, by default CentOS 7 networking is disabled.

   vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-enp0s3
   #change ONBOOT=no to ONBOOT=yes
   systemctl restart network
   

4. (optional) Add port forwarding to allow ssh connections for convenience, i.e. 2222 to 22 on the CentOS guest

Install preferred vcs

yum install git

Install Maven

yum install maven

Setup CentOS for building RPMs

1. Create a build user

   useradd builduser
   

2. Install RPM tools

   yum install rpm-build rpmdevtools
   

3. Setup build directory structure

   su - builduser
   rpmdev-setuptree
   

Build java-rpm-example

git clone https://github.com/Chomeh/java-rpm-example.git
cd java-rpm-example
mvn install
cd target
cp myservice-0.1-rpm.tar.gz ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES
rpmbuild -ba java-rpm-example.spec

Deplopy java-rpm-example

#as root
yum install ~builduser/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/myservice-0.1-1.el7.centos.noarch.rpm
service myservice start
tail -f /var/log/myservice/myservice.log