RPM Spec for Consul

Tries to follow the packaging guidelines from Fedora.

• Binary: /usr/bin/consul
• Config: /etc/consul.d/
• Sysconfig: /etc/sysconfig/consul

To Build

To build the RPM (non-root user):

1. Check out this repo

2. Install rpmdevtools and mock

   sudo yum install rpmdevtools mock
   

3. Set up your rpmbuild directory tree

   rpmdev-setuptree
   

4. Link the spec file and sources from the repository into your rpmbuild/SOURCES directory

   ln -s ${repo}/SPECS/consul.spec rpmbuild/SPECS/
   ln -s ${repo}/SOURCES/* rpmbuild/SOURCES/
   

5. Download remote source files

   spectool -g -R rpmbuild/SPECS/consul.spec
   

6. Build the RPM

   rpmbuild -ba rpmbuild/SPECS/consul.spec
   

7. (Optional) Build for another Fedora release

   sudo mock -r fedora-19-x86_64 --resultdir rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/ rpmbuild/SRPMS/consul-0.2.0-1.fc20.src.rpm 
   

To run

1. Install the rpm
2. Put config files in /etc/consul.d/
3. Change command line arguments to consul in /etc/sysconfig/consul. Note: You should remove -bootstrap if this isn't the first server.
4. Start the service and tail the logs systemctl start consul.service and journalctl -f

• To enable at reboot systemctl enable consul.service

More info

See the consul.io website.