How to install and configure monitoring tools Nagios, lcinga, Zabbix and Ngnix on CentOS5 and CentOS6?

Question

On CentOS5 I was used to create a simple spec file where at the end I'll declare files and directories I wan't to package:

%files
%dir /opt/myapp
%dir /opt/myapp/bin
%dir /opt/myapp/etc
/opt/myapp/bin/exec01
/opt/myapp/etc/myapp.conf

I'll copy the file in /usr/src/redhat/SPECS and run "rpmbuild -bb myapp.spec".

On CentOS6 rpm-build package no longer creates the /usr/src/redhat/... directory tree. I followed the CentOS6 Wiki instructions to setup my rpmbuild environment for a regular user.

When I try to build the package on CentOS6 I'm getting this error for every single file and directory:

File not found:

/home/myhome/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/myapp-5.2-1el6.x86_64/opt/myapp/bin/exec01

I tried to override buildroot:

rpmbuild -bb --define="buildroot /" myapp.spec
 error: %{buildroot} can not be "/"

As a workaround I can manually create /home/myhome/rpmbuild/BUILDROOT/myapp-5.2-1el6.x86_64/ and copy all my file in there but that's a lot of extra work.

Is there a way to get the same functionality on CentOS6 where rpmbuild will collect the files from the main / directory and build the rpm package?

Answer 1

You pick up a third party repository like EPEL, follow the repository's instructions on how to enable it, then yum install the desired packages. Finally you follow the application's documentation on how to configure it.