A Recipe for a haproxy 1.6.4 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/1.6/src/haproxy-1.6.4.tar.gz
mv haproxy-1.6.4.tar.gz rpmbuild/SOURCES/

Get Necessary System-specific Configs

git clone [email protected]:ITV/rpm-haproxy.git
cp haproxy-centos/SOURCES/* rpmbuild/SOURCES/
cp haproxy-centos/SPECS/* 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 Russ Clare

Forked from https://github.com/swisstxt/rpm-haproxy (1.6 Dev support) which was Forked from https://github.com/bluerail/haproxy-centos (1.5 Stable support)