How to build a puppetserver 6 rpm package? - puppet

I have managed to build puppet-agent 6 rpm, but the puppet server use a different build system, and there is no building instruction. Anybody know how to build?

I have patched the installed puppetserver, and used rpmrebuild to create a new rpm from the patched installation.

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Linux Installation libX11-devel

I am trying to build QT4 (porting from Redhat 5 to 7 with an upgraded gcc compiler) in RedHat 7 and I was getting an error saying X11/Xlib.h can't be found. Anyways, after doing some research most people said to install libX11-devel to get those x11 libraries. Since I am using an offline machine I can't do "apt-get" type commands and have to manually install RPMs. So, I went to my RH-7 installation DVD and got "libX11-devel-1.6.3-3.el7.x86-64" (I have 64 bit OS) and tried to install using "yum install libX11-devel-1.6.3-3.el7.x86_64" and I am getting dependencies errors. It's saying
...Requires: pkgconfig(kbproto)
...Required: pkgconfig(xcb)
...Requires: pkgconfig(xproto)
...Requires: pkgconfig(xcb) >= 1.1.92
So, here are my questions.
1) when it says "pkgconfig(kbproto)", is it saying find the "kbproto....RPM" and do a "yum install". In my dvd I only have "xorg-x11-proto-devel-7.7.13.el7.noarch.rpm". Do I have to somehow find "xorg-x11-proto......x86_64.rpm" since it's a 64 bit machine?
2) Is there a difference between "yum install" and pkgconfig "install"? Are there any other installation variants in Linux?
3)For an offline machine, Is there anyway I can get all the dependencies and install everything at once ?
4) Why is it saying "xcb" requires twice. If I just get a xcb...rpm version above 1.1.92 can I just install it once?
Before actually answering the questions, I am going to suggest to see if you can get the latest version of the packages. The packages on the installation DVD may be really out of date and contain known vulernabilities, and other bugs. Can you use yumdownloader - in an online environment - to download the latest version onto a separate DVD and use that as the installation source? See https://access.redhat.com/solutions/10154 for more information.
To answer the questions themselves:
Requires: foo can refer to a package foo or a "feature" foo. pkgconfig(kbproto) is a "feature" (or virtual requires). You can use yum/rpm to see what provides this. On my Fedora box, for example, rpm -q --provides xorg-x11-proto-devel shows that this package indeed provides pkgconfig(kbproto).
As for x86_64 vs noarch, it doesn't matter. noarch packages work everywhere. Other packages are restricted to the platform. So x86_64 only works on intel/amd x86 64-bit machines. Installing noarch should be fine in your case. If you only had a i686 package, though, that wouldn't be sufficient. You would have to find a x86_64 or noarch package.
Yes, there's a big difference between yum and pkg-config. They do completely different things. One is a system tool for installing RPM packages. The other is a tool for developers for using the right headers and compiler flags. If your concern is finding/installing RPMs, do not use pkg-config directly.
Do you have access to an online machine that can access the RHEL 7 yum repositories? On that machine, do something like this:
mkdir rhel7-packages
cd rhel7-packages
yum provides '*/X11/Xlib.h' # make a note of the package that provides this file. it's libX11-devel on Fedora here
yumdownloader --resolve libX11-devel # download libX11-devel and all dependencies not installed on the system
Then copy/install the RPMs on the machine without internet access.
It's probably printing out xcb twice because it's two different requirements. The unversioned requirement will be satisfied if you install any verison of xcb. The versioned requirement will only be satisfied if you install 1.1.92. If you install 1.1.92, it will satisified both the requirements.
1.
You have to resolve the dependency on the system where you are building your package. This means you need to have those dependencies installed, inclusing libX11-devel. To do that, download the RPMs manually from EL7 repos to local disk and run this:
$ mkdir -p /tmp/libX11_dep_rpms && cd /tmp/libX11_dep_rpms
# Download all dependencies from here. All your packages should be available here:
# http://mirror.centos.org/centos-7/7/os/x86_64/Packages/
# Then install
$ yum localinstall *.rpm
# After this you should be able to build your qt4 package, provided all dependencies are resolved. Otherwise, repeat the procedure for all dependencies
# If you can't download packages, then you need to create a FULL DVD ISO that will contain all packages.
2.
pkgconfig ensures that a requirement is coming from a particular build that provides a particular version of the library. Here are some detail.
3.
Get the Everything ISO from EL7.
4.
This has to do with the pkgconfig and library versions.

Installing Debian 8 packages & dependencies to a specified fs directory

I am new to Debian 8, and still very much a Linux beginner. I am currently running Debian 8 Oracle VM Virtualbox in Windows 10, for reference.
For a project I am working on, my task is installing Debian 8 packages from the source package to a specified rootfs folder. After getting the source files (.tar.gz, .diff.gz, .dsc) and extracting them, I run:
dpkg-source -x <package>.dsc
Which extracts the source to the working directory.
The issue I'm having is generating the .deb files from the extracted. The standard way to do it is to let apt handle the installation of the dependencies from the online repository via:
apt-get build-dep <package>
then generate the .deb files via:
dpkg-buildpackage -b
But this will install the dependencies to my rootfs. In addition, since I downloaded the majority of the packages to my local machine, I'd like to be able to manually install each dependency from my local source packages rather than online.
From my understanding, I was tasked this to avoid polluting the specified fs with documentation and non-essential files, since the number of Debian 8 packages that will be added to this fs is >700.
If there are any mistakes / misunderstandings with my knowledge of Linux & Debian 8, please let me know.
You can create a docker container and install your dependencies in there and do all your work in there. You can configure docker to put the docker containers on any filesystem you like.
Any approach that does not use containers is unlikely to work because AFAIK most Linux distributions, including Debian, do not support dependency relocation. Nix is an exception. So containers are a way around that.

how to backup a installed rpm package in redhat?

I was install a package by rpm command in redhat, but the package is failure now.
I want create a new package from installed package.
what can I do?
This command would help you in that,
rpm -Fvh –repackage rpm-file-name.rpm
Here rpm-file-name.rpm is an existing package in Linux which will be repackage by using above option.
From man page of rpm;
–repackage Re-package the files before erasing.
–replacefiles Install the packages even if they replace files from
other, already installed, packages.
–replacepkgs Install the packages even if some of them are already
installed on this system.
rpmrebuild is built for re-creating RPM package files from already installed packages. There are options which allow you to tailor the packaging, but the most simple invocation just produces an RPM file from an installed package. Example: rpmrebuild coreutils

Error in installing puppet enterprise

I have downloaded the Puppet Enterprise 3.7 installer from the PuppetLabs website,
but while installing I got the below error...
./puppet-enterprise-installer
ERROR: This is a supported platform, but this is not the installer for this platform. Please use the platform specific installer
(puppet-enterprise-3.7.2-el-6-x86_64).
How can I fix this?
You can get the enterprise linux puppet installer for 3.7.2 following this link.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/pe-builds/released/3.7.2/puppet-enterprise-3.7.2-el-6-x86_64.tar.gz
Looks to me like you downloaded it for the wrong linux distribution.
Hope this helps.
** This only applies to the open source version **
Which distribution are you installing this on? The error is telling you to use the EL6 install package which is available on their yum repo. It's much easier if you just install their repo package:
rpm -Uhv http://yum.puppetlabs.com/puppetlabs-release-el-6.noarch.rpm
and then run yum install puppet facter.

How to specify dependency location in rpm?

While installing Mono using RPM, GLIBC_2.16 is listed as a dependency. Since I'm having an older version of glibc, and didn't want to corrupt my kernel, i installed the newer glibc from sources in my home folder.
I now want the RPM to refer to this newer glibc lib directory in my home folder while installing mono. What is the RPM option for mentioning dependency locations for a package?
I am currently using the following RPM command:
sudo rpm -ivh mono-core-3.2.3-0.x86_64.rpm
I get the following error messages:
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.14)(64bit) is needed by mono-core-3.2.3-0.x86_64
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.15)(64bit) is needed by mono-core-3.2.3-0.x86_64
libc.so.6(GLIBC_2.16)(64bit) is needed by mono-core-3.2.3-0.x86_64
My newer glibc path is:
~/Desktop/glibc/glibc1/lib
What option should i include in rpm to reference this path while installing mono?
Thanks
I guess there is no way to install the package without --nodeps unless you install the proper version of glibc in your system.
If your goal is to run mono command completely, it may work fine by the following steps.
Installing the package by adding the --nodeps option to rpm command to ignore any dependencies.
Running mono-related commands with LD_LIBRARY_PATH set to /your/alternative/path/to/glibc.
However, I think that the best solution is to build the mono's source on your machine.

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