Packaging Red Hat

Tested on CentOS 6, CentOS 7, CentOS 8 and Fedora 24.

1. On CentOS 6, refer to CentOS 6 for details on installing sufficiently up-to-date package versions to enable building FRR.

   Newer automake/autoconf/bison is only needed to build the RPM and is not needed to install the binary RPM package.

2. Install the build dependencies for your platform. Refer to the platform-specific build documentation on how to do this.

3. Install the following additional packages:

   yum install rpm-build net-snmp-devel pam-devel libcap-devel
   

   For CentOS 7 and CentOS 8, the package will be built using python3 and requires additional python3 packages:

   yum install python3-devel python3-sphinx
   

   Note

   For CentOS 8 you need to install platform-python-devel package to provide /usr/bin/pathfix.py:

   yum install platform-python-devel
   

   If yum is not present on your system, use dnf instead.

   You should enable PowerTools repo if using CentOS 8 which is disabled by default.

4. Checkout FRR:

   git clone https://github.com/frrouting/frr.git frr
   

5. Run Bootstrap and make distribution tar.gz:

   cd frr
   ./bootstrap.sh
   ./configure --with-pkg-extra-version=-MyRPMVersion
   make dist
   

   Note

   The only configure option respected when building RPMs is --with-pkg-extra-version.

6. Create RPM directory structure and populate with sources:

   mkdir rpmbuild
   mkdir rpmbuild/SOURCES
   mkdir rpmbuild/SPECS
   cp redhat/*.spec rpmbuild/SPECS/
   cp frr*.tar.gz rpmbuild/SOURCES/
   

7. Edit rpm/SPECS/frr.spec with configuration as needed.

   Look at the beginning of the file and adjust the following parameters to enable or disable features as required:

   ############### FRRouting (FRR) configure options #################
   # with-feature options
   %{!?with_babeld:        %global  with_babeld        1 }
   %{!?with_bfdd:          %global  with_bfdd          1 }
   %{!?with_bgp_vnc:       %global  with_bgp_vnc       0 }
   %{!?with_cumulus:       %global  with_cumulus       0 }
   %{!?with_eigrpd:        %global  with_eigrpd        1 }
   %{!?with_fpm:           %global  with_fpm           1 }
   %{!?with_mgmtd_test_be_client: %global with_mgmtd_test_be_client 0 }
   %{!?with_ldpd:          %global  with_ldpd          1 }
   %{!?with_multipath:     %global  with_multipath     256 }
   %{!?with_nhrpd:         %global  with_nhrpd         1 }
   %{!?with_ospfapi:       %global  with_ospfapi       1 }
   %{!?with_ospfclient:    %global  with_ospfclient    1 }
   %{!?with_pam:           %global  with_pam           0 }
   %{!?with_pbrd:          %global  with_pbrd          1 }
   %{!?with_pimd:          %global  with_pimd          1 }
   %{!?with_pim6d:         %global  with_pim6d         1 }
   %{!?with_vrrpd:         %global  with_vrrpd         1 }
   %{!?with_rtadv:         %global  with_rtadv         1 }
   %{!?with_watchfrr:      %global  with_watchfrr      1 }
   %{!?with_pathd:         %global  with_pathd         1 }
   %{!?with_grpc:          %global  with_grpc          0 }
   

8. Build the RPM:

   rpmbuild --define "_topdir `pwd`/rpmbuild" -ba rpmbuild/SPECS/frr.spec
   

   If building with RPKI, then download and install the additional RPKI packages from https://ci1.netdef.org/browse/RPKI-RTRLIB/latestSuccessful/artifact

If all works correctly, then you should end up with the RPMs under rpmbuild/RPMS and the source RPM under rpmbuild/SRPMS.