Today I compiled my first RPM package from source :-)! But let’s start at the beginning…
At work I recently implemented disk quota on our server. While trying to setup /etc/warnquota.conf I noticed the example lines at the bottom that showed how to configure warnquota to look up e-mail addresses in an LDAP directory. This was exactly what I needed, because we store our user’s e-mail address in our LDAP tree. Without this feature warnquota would try to send its warning mails to user@our-server.example.com instead of /etc/warnquota.conf were:
LDAP_MAIL = true LDAP_HOST = ldap.example.com LDAP_PORT = 389 LDAP_BASEDN = ou=Users,dc=example,dc=com LDAP_SEARCH_ATTRIBUTE = uid LDAP_MAIL_ATTRIBUTE = mail LDAP_DEFAULT_MAIL_DOMAIN = example.com |
So, after saving the file I tested it by running warnquota -s (as root, and I also made sure I reduced my own quota so I would be the one getting an e-mail warning).
Unfortunately warnquota spitted out some errors:
warnquota: Error in config file (line 65), ignoring warnquota: Error in config file (line 66), ignoring warnquota: Error in config file (line 67), ignoring warnquota: Error in config file (line 68), ignoring warnquota: Error in config file (line 69), ignoring warnquota: Error in config file (line 70), ignoring warnquota: Warning: Mailer exitted abnormally. |
These were the line numbers with the LDAP options above :-(. Google pointed me to an old bug in Fedora that was marked as resolved. I also found out that the quota tools should be compiled with LDAP support for this to work. To be sure that it was actually possible I configured warnquota on my home server that runs Ubuntu 10.04 and also uses LDAP. There, it all worked as expected.
So, my next step was clear: make my own RPM package for quota. The one installed by CentOS 5.4 is quota-3.13-1.2.5.el5. These are the steps I took:
- Enable the CentOS source repository by creating the file
etc/yum.repos.d/CentOS-Source.repowith this contents:[centos-src] name=CentOS $releasever - $basearch - Source baseurl=http://mirror.centos.org/centos/$releasever/os/SRPMS/ gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=file:///etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-CentOS-5
The run
yum updateand check that the new repository is listed. - Install the
yum-utilsandrpmdevtoolspackages:sudo yum install yum-utils rpmdevtools. - Set up a directory to do your build work in. I created the directory
~/tmp/pkgtest. - Run
rpmdev-setuptreeto create the required sub directories. - Set the basic build configuration by creating the file
~/.rpmmacroswith the following contents:# Path to top of build area %_topdir /home/lennart/tmp/pkgtest
- Go into the SRPMS directory and download the source package:
yumdownloader --source quota - In the top level directory run
rpm -i SRPMS/quota-3.13-1.2.5.el5.src.rpmto unpack the package. - The
SPECSdirectory now contains the.spec filethat contains the build instructions. TheSOURCESdirectory contains the source files and patches from Red Hat. In a temporary directory I untar-ed the quotatools source tar.gz file and ran./configure --helpto find out which option I should add to the spec file in order to enable LDAP lookup. The option was:--enable-ldapmail=yes. The set of configure lines in the spec file now looked like this:%build %configure \ --with-ext2direct=no --enable-rootsbin --enable-ldapmail=yes make
In the spec file I also added a changelog entry:
* Mon Oct 18 2010 Lennart Karssen <lennart@karssen.org 1:3.13-1.2.6 - Added --enable-ldapmail=try to the ./configure line to enable LDAP for looking up mail addresses. (Resolves Red Hat Bugzilla 133207, it is marked as resolved there, but apparently was reintroduced.)
And I also bumped the build version number at the top of the file (the
Release:line). Finally, I addedopenldap-develto theBuildPreReqline (of course I ran into a compilation error first and then installed theopenldap-develpackage :-)). - Now it’s time to build the package. In the
SPECdirectory run:rpmbuild -bb quota.specand wait. The RPM package is created in theRPMSdirectory. - Install the package:
sudo rpm -Uvh RPMS/x86_64/quota-3.13-1.2.6.x86_64.rpm(if you didn’t bump the package version number the--replacepkgsmust be added to ‘upgrade’ to the same version).
And that was it! The package installed cleanly and a test run of warnquota -s was successful.
Hi,
I came across your dissertation and I would like to ask you about your beautiful template.
If possible, could you contact me over the email that I provide in this entry?
Thanks a lot!
Hi,
I’ll be the second one who nicely ask about your schema. Are there any chances you could share it via email please.
Thanks
Dear Angaros (and André as well),
Thanks for your interest in my thesis. The LaTeX template I used was designed by André Miede and is called Classic Thesis. It can be downloaded from CTAN:
http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/classicthesis/
I did make a few small modifications to the template, but not too much. If you have any other questions, let me know.