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RPMs of newer syslog-ng releases for Centos5/6

syslog-ng-rpmbuild

RPMs of newer syslog-ng releases for Centos5/6

main reason for me was to get the redis support working (other special outputs not tested)

Scratchpad notes on rpmbuild

definetely incomplete! I did a lot of edits at the .spec file to get a clean build!

CENTOS 6

prepare

yum install rpm-build make bison flex gcc-c++ openssl-devel libnet-devel pcre-devel hiredis-devel

useradd -m syslog-ng-build su -s /bin/bash syslog-ng-build mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/{BUILD,RPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,SRPMS}

• get release from github
• cp syslog-ng_3.6.4.tar.gz rpmbuild/SOURCES/

run rpmbuild

rpmbuild -bb syslog-ng-3.6.4/syslog-ng.spec

• build will fail: edit .spec file
• add files
• remove install.sh root references (-o root)

CENTOS 5

centos5 seems not to support rpmbuilding with non-root (or I didnt figured it out how it works)

prepare

yum install rpm-build make bison flex gcc-c++ openssl-devel libnet-devel pcre-devel hiredis-devel libeventlog-devel

mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild

• get release from github
• cp syslog-ng-3.6.4.tar.gz /usr/src/redhat/SOURCES/syslog-ng_3.6.4.tar.gz

run rpmbuild

rpmbuild -bb syslog-ng-3.6.4/syslog-ng.spec

• build will fail: edit .spec file
• add files
• add hiredis dependency
• remove install.sh root references (-o root)