rpm_packages.md

MicroShift RPM Packages for Development and Testing

MicroShift Release Candidates (RC) and Engineering Candidates (EC) are publicly available for following architectures::

• x86_64
• aarch64

MicroShift RPM development packages are intended to be used internally at Red Hat to facilitate the development and QE processes, never to be distributed to customers. The packages are produced every time a corresponding OpenShift nightly build is successful.

For more information, see the MicroShift Pre-Release RPM Packages internal Red Hat Confluence page.

Building binaries from source RPM

Following steps are applicable for source RPM from both release build system and developer's environment.

Hint: To build source RPM in developer environment run: make srpm - artifact will be in _output/rpmbuild/SRPMS/

Assuming there's only one srpm in current directory, following commands will extract and enter the source directory:

mkdir -p ~/microshift-srpm-builds/
cd ~/microshift-srpm-builds/
cp ~/microshift/_output/rpmbuild/SRPMS/microshift*.src.rpm .
rpm2cpio microshift-*.src.rpm  | cpio -idmv
tar xf microshift-*.tar.gz
cd microshift-*/

Note: Source RPM does not include .git/ directory.

This means that commands (such as make rpm) expecting git repository will fail and version strings embedded in microshift binary are not fully populated.

To build microshift and microshift-etcd binaries run:

make GO_MOD_FLAGS='-buildvcs=false -mod=vendor'