A Recipe for a haproxy 1.5 stable version RPM on CentOS

Perform the following on a build box as a regular user.

Create an RPM Build Environment

Install rpmdevtools from the EPEL repository:

sudo yum install rpmdevtools pcre-devel
rpmdev-setuptree

Install Prerequisites for RPM Creation

sudo yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
sudo yum install openssl-devel

Download haproxy

wget http://www.haproxy.org/download/1.5/src/haproxy-1.5.3.tar.gz
mv haproxy-1.5.3.tar.gz ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/

Get Necessary System-specific Configs

git clone git://github.com/bluerail/haproxy-centos.git
cp haproxy-centos/conf/* ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/
cp haproxy-centos/spec/* ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/

Build the RPM

cd ~/rpmbuild/
rpmbuild -ba SPECS/haproxy.spec

The resulting RPM will be in ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64

Credits

Based on the Red Hat 6.4 RPM spec for haproxy 1.4.

Maintained by Martijn Storck