bigbrozer / netdata-rpm-builder

Build RPMs for Netdata, the distributed real-time performance and health monitoring system

RPM builder for Netdata

This will build RPMs for netdata.

Quick start

If you are only interested by the installation of netdata on your systems using RPM, follow this quick steps to setup the Yum/Dnf repository:

# For RHEL 7.x
$ cat <<'EOF' | sudo tee /etc/yum.repos.d/bigbrozer_netdata.repo
[bigbrozer_netdata]
name=bigbrozer_netdata
baseurl=https://packagecloud.io/bigbrozer/netdata/el/7/$basearch
repo_gpgcheck=1
gpgcheck=0
enabled=1
gpgkey=https://packagecloud.io/bigbrozer/netdata/gpgkey
sslverify=1
sslcacert=/etc/pki/tls/certs/ca-bundle.crt
metadata_expire=300
EOF

# For RHEL 6.x, the package is not yet available...

Update Yum/Dnf cache:

$ sudo yum makecache fast
$ sudo dnf makecache fast

Install package:

$ sudo yum install netdata
$ sudo dnf install netdata

Build images

# For building image for RHEL 7 (default)
docker build -t bigbrozer/netdata-rpm-builder:7 .

# For building image for RHEL 6
docker build --build-arg RELEASE=6 -t bigbrozer/netdata-rpm-builder:6 .

Build RPMs

Currently supported:

# Build RPMs for RHEL 7
./run.py -r 7

# Build RPMs for RHEL 6
./run.py -r 6

Manual builds:

# Build RPMs for RHEL 7
docker run \
    -t \
    --rm \
    -v $(pwd)/dist:/build/dist \
    bigbrozer/netdata-rpm-builder:7

# Build RPMs for RHEL 6
docker run \
    -t \
    --rm \
    -v $(pwd)/dist:/build/dist \
    bigbrozer/netdata-rpm-builder:6

Resulted RPMs are located into the dist/ folder.

netdata-rpm-builder's Issues

patch for el6/el7

Not at issue but a remark.
You could avoid this patch by updating /etc/rpm/macros.dist accordingly
See https://cstan.io/?p=8946&lang=en

BTW, still happy to see people working on RPMs :)