sregex Packaging

This packages sregex within RPMs.

We currently support the following OSes:

• CentOS/RHEL 8 (x86_64)
• CentOS/RHEL 7 (x86_64)

Building packages

1. Ensure Docker and Docker Compose are installed.

2. Run the following:

   git clone https://github.com/jcu-eresearch/sregex-build.git
   cd sregex-build
   make
   

3. Enjoy your new RPMs, available in the build/ directory.

If you're not into Docker, then you can manually run the build steps inside the corresponding Dockerfile on your own EL machine, ensuring that you set up your build environment first. You can follow the respective Dockerfile in the configs/ area and its RUN commands.

Testing locally

If you want to test the packages, you can do so by launching a Docker container with the appropriate OS, installing the built packages and testing. To do so:

make
make test

The latter command will launch you into the Docker container. Now, inside this running container, call:

dnf install /app/build/centos-8/RPMS/x86_64/*.rpm

To run a basic smoke test, run sregex-cli.

Updating Docker images

To update the Docker images to the latest versions, do the following:

make build