Package storops rpm on RHEL

Install a RHEL VM.

1. If using qcow2 image, the default user is cloud-user. Use the OpenStack ssh key to login.

2. Create a new user stack with password welcome.

$ sudo useradd stack
$ sudo passwd stack
$ sudo visudo

Register subscription

$ sudo subscription-manager register
$ sudo subscription-manager attach --auto

Install the basic packages like rpm-build

$ sudo yum install -y rpm-build git wget python-pip

NOTE: need to upgrade the setuptools using pip. Otherwise, you'll meet the error like error in storops setup command: 'install_requires' must be a string or list of strings containing valid project/version requirement specifiers

$ sudo pip install setuptools -U

Install the dependent Python packages of storops

# Configure the yum repo
$ sudo su -
$ cat > /etc/yum.repos.d/common-candidate.repo << EOF
[common-candidate]
name=common-candidate
baseurl=http://cbs.centos.org/repos/cloud7-openstack-common-candidate/x86_64/os
enabled=1
gpgcheck=0
priority=2
EOF

# Install the packages
sudo yum install -y python2-devel python-bitmath python-cachez \ 
    python-dateutil python-ddt python-enum34 python-fasteners \
    python-hamcrest python-mock python-persist-queue python-pytest \ 
    python-pytest-xdist python-requests python-retryz python-xmltodict

Build the storops rpms

Refer to https://github.com/emc-openstack/storops/tree/develop/utility/rpm_publish