This is a short hands-on tutorial on creating TCPWebLog RPM packages for Enterprise Linux, including, but not limited to, Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL), CentOS and Scientific Linux (SL).

TCPWebLog is a Free Open Source Software system designed to collect and aggregate Web logs (i.e. Apache and Varnish) from multiple GNU/Linux computers running on a Cloud. For more information please read the blog post: TCPWebLog – Collecting and Aggregating Web Logs on the Cloud.

NOTE: The commands on this guide were tested on both CentOS 6.2 and Scientific Linux 6.2 (2.6.32-220.17.1.el6.x86_64) virtual machines.

To build the RPM packages we first need a set an RPM development environment as described on the article: How to set up a build environment for RPM packages on Enterprise Linux.

Once the development environment is correctly setup, login as makerpm user and download the TCPWebLog sources:

$ cd ~
$ git clone git://github.com/fubralimited/TCPWebLog.git

Copy the SPEC files and source files to rpmbuild dir:

$ cd ~/TCPWebLog
$ export SUVER=$(cat VERSION)

$ cd ~/TCPWebLog/client
$ cp tcpweblog_client.spec ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/
$ tar -zcvf ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/tcpweblog_client-$SUVER.tar.gz  *

$ cd ~/TCPWebLog/server
$ cp tcpweblog_server.spec ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/
$ tar -zcvf ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/tcpweblog_server-$SUVER.tar.gz  *

Create the RPMs:

$ cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/
$ rpmbuild -ba tcpweblog_client.spec
$ rpmbuild -ba tcpweblog_server.spec

The RPMs are now located at ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/$(uname -m)

For installation and configuration instructions, please read TCPWebLog – Collecting and Aggregating Web Logs on the Cloud.