Apache Cassandra rpmbuild

Requirements:

• The build system needs to have Apache Cassandra ant artifacts build dependencies installed.
• Since Apache Cassandra depends on Python 2.7, the earliest version supported is RHEL/CentOS 7.0.

Step 1:

• Build and copy sources to build tree:

ant artifacts
cp build/apache-cassandra-*-src.tar.gz $RPM_BUILD_DIR/SOURCES/

Step 2:

• Since there is no version specified in the SPEC file, one needs to be passed at rpmbuild time (example with 4.0):

rpmbuild --define="version 4.0" -ba redhat/cassandra.spec

• RPM files can be found in their respective build tree directories:

ls -l $RPM_BUILD_DIR/{SRPMS,RPMS}/

Hint:

• Don't build packages as root..

# this makes your RPM_BUILD_DIR = ~/rpmbuild
mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS}
echo '%_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild' > ~/.rpmmacros