Testing a release tarball

Tarball sanity check

• extract to /tmp/something
• ./configure && make DESTDIR=/tmp/something/tmpinst install
• run gmond -t
• run ldd on each binary
• find . -name *.so

RHEL

• Preparations
• Install a machine with RHEL or CentOS
• Install required dev packages
• Set up directories and preferences for rpmbuild
• Testing a tarball
• rpmbuild -tb ganglia-${VERSION}.tar.gz

OpenCSW

• Preparations
• Obtain an account on the OpenCSW build farm
• or set up an OpenCSW dev environment
• either way, make sure you have the opencsw source tree from SVN checked out
• Testing a tarball

cd ~/opencsw/ganglia/trunk
svn update
vi Makefile  (edit version number)
mgar clean && mgar fetch && mgar makesum
svn commit -m 'ganglia: update for building version X.Y.Z'
mgar package