Hi all,
Some time ago, I have written some Ansible playbooks and roles to build RPMs
for CouchDB 1.6.1 (CouchDB itself and SpiderMonkey 1.85). I’ve focused on
CentOS 6.x as this is the environment that we use in production (we are not on
CentOS 7 yet). The RPMs are built with FPM (https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm
<https://github.com/jordansissel/fpm>) which is quite easy to use ( I am no RPM
expert, but it seems to work just fine). I’ve done a quick check, and the same
approach seems to work fine when building CouchDB 2.0 from the latest Github
sources. Essentially I do the following (via Jenkins): I spin a CentOS VM which
is my build server. I then execute the Ansible playbook on that build server to
build the RPMs for SpiderMonkey and CouchDB. The RPMs can then be fetched via
SSH or HTTP.
You can have a look at [1] to see the kind of work the Ansible playbook does
(this won’t work out of the box as it needs other files, but I just want to
illustrate roughly how it works).
As I am investigating CouchDB 2.x, I am planning on writing a new version to
support 2.0, I am more than happy to share it as well.
[1]
---
- name: create the directory to store the RPMs
file: path={{ RPMS_DIRECTORY }} state=directory
- name: install build tools
yum: name={{ item }}
with_items:
- zip
- unzip
- rpm-build
- name: check if fpm is already installed
shell: gem list fpm --version {{ FPM_VERSION }} -i
ignore_errors: true
register: check_fpm
- include: install_fpm.yaml
when: check_fpm.stdout.find('true')==-1
- name: download the source code for Mozilla SpiderMonkey 1.85
get_url: url=http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/js/js185-1.0.0.tar.gz
dest=/tmp
- name: unarchive the tar file
shell: chdir=/tmp tar -xzf js185-1.0.0.tar.gz
- name: compile Mozilla SpiderMonkey 1.8.5
shell: chdir=/tmp/js-1.8.5/js/src {{ item }}
with_items:
- ./configure
- make --silent
- make DESTDIR=install --silent install
- name: fix the libmozjs185.so.1.0 symlink
file: state=link
path=/tmp/js-1.8.5/js/src/install/usr/local/lib/libmozjs185.so.1.0
src=libmozjs185.so.1.0.0 force=yes
tags: fix_symlink1
- name: fix the libmozjs185.so symlink
file: state=link
path=/tmp/js-1.8.5/js/src/install/usr/local/lib/libmozjs185.so
src=libmozjs185.so.1.0 force=yes
tags: fix_symlink2
- name: package Mozilla SpiderMonkey 1.8.5 as an rpm with fpm
shell: fpm -s dir -t rpm -n js -v 1.85 -f -p {{ RPMS_DIRECTORY }} -C
/tmp/js-1.8.5/js/src/install usr
- name: install SpiderMonkey from the RPM file (this is required in order to
compile CouchDB)
yum: name={{ RPMS_DIRECTORY }}/js-1.85-1.x86_64.rpm
- name: install Erlang
yum: name=erlang
- name: download the source code for Apache CouchDB 1.6.1
get_url:
url=http://www.eu.apache.org/dist/couchdb/source/1.6.1/apache-couchdb-1.6.1.tar.gz
dest=/tmp
- name: unarchive the source code for Apache CouchDB 1.6.1
shell: chdir=/tmp tar -xzf apache-couchdb-1.6.1.tar.gz
- name: install icu-devel
yum: name=libicu-devel
- name: compile Apache Couchdb 1.6.1
shell: chdir=/tmp/apache-couchdb-1.6.1 {{ item }}
with_items:
- ./configure --with-erlang=/usr/lib64/erlang/usr/include
- make --silent
- make DESTDIR=/tmp/couchdb --silent install
- name: package Apache CouchDB 1.6.1 as an rpm with fpm
shell: fpm -s dir -t rpm -n couchdb -v 1.6.1 -f -p {{ RPMS_DIRECTORY }} -C
/tmp/couchdb usr
- name: install the Apache2 webserver
yum: name=httpd
- name: add a symlink to serve the RPMS via Apache2
file: path=/var/www/html/rpms src={{ RPMS_DIRECTORY }} state=link
- name: ensure Apache2 is running
service: name=httpd state=started
