RPM for Fedora/CentOS

[israelshirk]

No wiki, so I'm stuffing it here for anyone who's googling.

Adapted from the nginx-1.4.7 specfile currently available via yumdownloader --source nginx in Fedora 20. CentOS, RHEL, Arch are probably similar.

Assumes buildroot is at ~/rpmbuild

Obtain + install virgin SRPM

yumdownloader --source nginx
rpm -iUvh <nginx source package file name>

Generate tar for the rpm build

cd ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES
git clone https://github.com/mdirolf/nginx-gridfs
cd nginx-gridfs
git submodule init
git submodule update
cd ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES
tar --exclude=.git --exclude=.gitmodules --exclude=.gitignore -czf nginx-gridfs.tgz nginx-gridfs

Patch The Spec:

cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS
cat << THE_END | patch -p0
--- nginx.spec  2014-09-30 16:19:29.537276341 -0400
+++ nginx-new.spec  2014-09-30 16:14:48.934264847 -0400
@@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
 Source14:          nginx-upgrade.8
 Source15:          nginx.init
 Source16:          nginx.sysconfig
+Source99:          https://github.com/mdirolf/nginx-gridfs/archive/nginx-gridfs.tgz
 Source100:         index.html
 Source101:         poweredby.png
 Source102:         nginx-logo.png
@@ -82,6 +83,7 @@

 %prep
 %setup -q
+%setup -T -D -a 99
 %patch0 -p0


@@ -134,6 +136,7 @@
     --with-mail \\
     --with-mail_ssl_module \\
     --with-pcre \\
+    --add-module=nginx-gridfs \\
 %if 0%{?with_gperftools}
     --with-google_perftools_module \\
 %endif
THE_END

If you want to increment the build number, do it now in nginx.spec

Build

rpmbuild -ba nginx.spec