Everything about the process and current status can be found on this page: http:https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/JBossAS7

All commands specified here assume you are in the repo root directory.

rpmbuild --define "_topdir $PWD" -bs SPECS/jboss-as.spec

For development you can use rpmbuild command, like this:

rpmbuild --define "_topdir $PWD" -bb SPECS/jboss-as.spec

Please note the -bb switch change - it'll build the binary only. If you want to build .src.rpm and .rpm - use -ba switch.

If you want to skip --define parameter, you can add it to your .rpmmacros file, like this:

echo '%_topdir %(echo `pwd`)' >> ~/.rpmmacros

Note that this will affect all executions of rpmbuild command.

Mock builds provide clean builds, this means that if you want to be shure that the package has correct BuildRequires you should always use mock. It's slower than running rpmbuild command directly, but it ensure the build is executed in a clean environment.

yum install mock

I prepared a mock configuration file: mock/fedora-rawhide-x86_64.cfg. Make sure you edit the file and point the as7 repository baseurl to the correct location of the rpm/ directory.

First of all build JBoss AS 7 source RPM - mock will rebuild it into a RPM.

mock -v --configdir mock/ -r fedora-17-x86_64 --rebuild SRPMS/jboss-as-*.src.rpm

The resulting packages: both .rpm and .src.rpm and build logs will be stored in /var/lib/mock/fedora-rawhide-x86_64/result/ directory.

20 / 56 modules are packaged

We prepared VM's which can be used to jump-start you. There is everything installed which is needed to start work on AS 7 packaging. Every VM is based on Fedora Rawhide. To login use root user with boxgrinder password.

• KVM 64 bit [411 MB]
• VMware 64 bit [355 MB]

wget http:https://d25oih0l5muvfx.cloudfront.net/jboss-as-dev-1.0-fedora-rawhide-x86_64-raw.tgz
tar -xf jboss-as-dev-1.0-fedora-rawhide-x86_64-raw.tgz
sudo cp jboss-as-dev-1.0-fedora-rawhide-x86_64-raw/jboss-as-dev-sda.qcow2 /var/lib/libvirt/images/
sudo virt-install -n jboss-as-dev-1.0-fedora-rawhide-x86_64 -r 2048 --vcpus 2 --os-type linux --os-variant fedora16 --disk path=/var/lib/libvirt/images/jboss-as-dev-sda.qcow2,bus=virtio,cache=writeback --network network=default,model=virtio --noautoconsole --import

After running these commands you can connect to your jboss-as-dev-1.0-fedora-rawhide-x86_64 domain using mentioned above credentials.