Ubuntu 14.04 will go EOL in April 2019. With a new CloudStack release close to that date we can drop support for this Ubuntu version and the master branch of CloudStack. Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial) and 18.04 (Bionic) both have systemd and more recent Java versions which make it easier to run the CloudStack KVM Agent on them. In addition libvirt and Qemu are more up to date with features which allow VMs to run better. Yet to be implemented features in KVM can also leverage the newer version of Qemu and libvirt without the need of taking older version of them into account. Signed-off-by: Wido den Hollander <wido@widodh.nl>
CloudStack RPM and DEB packaging
This directory contains all the required scripts and tools needed to build RPM and DEB packages for Apache CloudStack.
These scripts are also used by the CloudStack team to build packages for the official release of CloudStack.
Requirements
The RPM and DEB packages have dependencies on versions of specific libraries. Due to these dependencies the following distributions and their versions are supported by the packages.
- CentOS / RHEL: 6 and 7
 - Debian 7 (Wheezy) and 8 (Jessy) (untested!)
 - Ubuntu: 14.04 (Trusty) and 16.04 (Xenial)
 
Building
Using the scripts in the packaging directory the RPM and DEB packages can be build.
DEB
If you simply want to build packages go to the root directory of your CloudStack source code and run:
dpkg-buildpackage
This will build packages for the current distribution version you are running. If you run this on a Ubuntu 16.04 system the packages will be tailored for Ubuntu 16.04 and will not install on Ubuntu 14.04.
Building cross-distribution
If you want to build packages for a different distribution run the build-deb.sh script. This will build packages with the current distribution as a suffix to the package names. E.g. cloudstack-agent_4.9.0~xenial_all.deb
Using a Docker image you can build packages for a distribution you are not running.
The following commands assume that the CloudStack source is present in /tmp/cloudstack on the system you are running these commands on.
docker run -ti -v /tmp:/src ubuntu:16.04 /bin/bash -c "apt-get update && apt-get install -y dpkg-dev python debhelper openjdk-8-jdk genisoimage python-mysql.connector maven lsb-release devscripts && /src/cloudstack/packaging/build-deb.sh"
docker run -ti -v /tmp:/src ubuntu:14.04 /bin/bash -c "apt-get update && apt-get install -y dpkg-dev python debhelper openjdk-7-jdk genisoimage python-mysql.connector maven lsb-release devscripts && /src/cloudstack/packaging/build-deb.sh"
The commands above will generate Ubuntu 14.04 and 16.04 packages which you will find in /tmp on your system after the build succeeds.
RPM
The package.sh script can be used to build RPM packages for CloudStack. In the packaging script you can run the following command:
./package.sh --pack oss --distribution centos7