RPM Spec for Confd

Tries to follow the packaging guidelines from Fedora.

• Binary: /usr/bin/confd
• Config: /etc/confd/
• Sysconfig: /etc/sysconfig/confd

To Build

To build the RPM (non-root user):

1. Check out this repo

2. Install rpmdevtools and mock

   sudo yum install rpmdevtools mock
   

3. Set up your rpmbuild directory tree

   rpmdev-setuptree
   

4. Link the spec file and sources from the repository into your rpmbuild/SOURCES directory

   ln -s ${repo}/SPECS/confd.spec rpmbuild/SPECS/
   ln -s ${repo}/SOURCES/* rpmbuild/SOURCES/
   

5. Download remote source files

   spectool -g -R rpmbuild/SPECS/confd.spec
   

6. Build the RPM

   rpmbuild -ba rpmbuild/SPECS/confd.spec
   

To run

1. Install the rpm
2. Put config files in /etc/confd/
3. Start the service and tail the logs systemctl start confd.service and journalctl -f

• To enable at reboot systemctl enable confd.service

More info

See the confd.io website.