3.6. Building RPMs

While we have defined, and you have presumably already installed the bootstrap prerequisites, there are a number of build time prerequisites that need to be resolved. CloudStack uses maven for dependency resolution. You can resolve the buildtime depdencies for CloudStack by running the following command:

$ mvn -P deps

Now that we have resolved the dependencies we can move on to building CloudStack and packaging them into RPMs by issuing the following command.

$ ./waf rpm

Once this completes, you should find assembled RPMs in artifacts/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64

3.6.1. Creating a yum repo

While RPMs is an ideal packaging format - it's most easily consumed from yum repositories over a network. We'll move into the directory with the newly created RPMs by issuing the following command:

$ cd artifacts/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64

Next we'll issue a command to create the repository metadata by issuing the following command:

$ createrepo ./

The files and directories within our current working directory can now be uploaded to a web server and serve as a yum repository

3.6.2. Configuring your systems to use your new yum repository

Now that your yum repository is populated with RPMs and metadata we need to configure our machines that need to install CloudStack. We will create a file at /etc/yum.repos.d/cloudstack.repo with the following content:

[apache-cloudstack]
name=Apache CloudStack
baseurl=http://webserver.tld/path/to/repo
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0

Completing this step will allow you to easily install CloudStack on a number of machines across the network.