Creating RPM Packages for Fedora 16+ / Centos 6+

You might be able to get these specs working on ancient versions of <= Centos 5 / <= RHEL 5/ <= Fedora 15, but it is a royal pain, and requires some crazy patching to do so. It is practical to use a more current distribution release. Please don't send me patches or requests for those older OS. They won't get accepted.

These are written and tested against couchdb-1.2.0

Requirements

###Fedora:

• Instructions for setting up rpmbuild on Fedora
• sudo yum install autoconf automake libtool curl-devel erlang-erts erlang-etap erlang-ibrowse erlang-mochiweb erlang-oauth erlang-os_mon help2man js-devel libicu-devel perl-Test-Harness erlang-crypto erlang-erts erlang-inets erlang-kernel erlang-sasl erlang-stdlib erlang-tools

###Centos:

• Configure EPEL rpm -ihv http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/6/i386/epel-release-6-5.noarch.rpm
• Instructions for setting up rpmbuild on Centos NOTE: Do not install redhat-rpm-config
• If you want a ~4X faster couchdb replace js-devel-1.7, build and install working js-devel-1.8.5 (See README_JS_DEVEL.md)
• Install js and js-devel rpms from step above or sudo yum install js js-devel
• sudo yum install autoconf automake libtool curl-devel erlang-erts erlang-etap erlang-ibrowse erlang-mochiweb erlang-oauth erlang-os_mon help2man libicu-devel perl-Test-Harness erlang-crypto erlang-erts erlang-inets erlang-kernel erlang-sasl erlang-stdlib erlang-tools

Build RPM (Fedora and Centos)

• Download release archive from https://couchdb.apache.org/downloads.html

Or:

• Checkout couchdb from https://git-wip-us.apache.org/repos/asf/couchdb.git
• Create an archive from a release tag or repo revision: git archive --format=tar --prefix=apache-couchdb-1.2.0/ fb72251bc | gzip >apache-couchdb-1.2.0.tar.gz
• Comment out "autoreconf -ivf" and uncomment './bootstrap' as configure doesn't exist in git repo and needs bootstrapped

Then:

• mv downloaded archive to ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES
• cd This project dir
• cp .spec ~/rpmbuild/SPECS
• cp *.patch ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES
• cp couchdb.init ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES
• cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS
• If building a version other than 1.2.0, update the spec file to reflect your version change.
• rpmbuild -ba couchdb.spec
• Installable rpms will reside in ~/rpmbuild/RPMS

Other

• Please take a look at https://github.com/iriscouch/build-couchdb for ability to build against specific erlang and spidermonkey versions.
• Drop by irc.freenode.net #couchdb if you have any questions.