krishantaylor/node-rpm-spec

Node.js rpmbuild spec file for CentOS 6.3

node rpm specfile

Node.js does not come with RPMs for CentOS 6.3. Here are instructions to build node rpms from source.

Steps to build

1. sudo yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'
2. sudo yum install openssl-devel python
3. mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/BUILD ~/rpmbuild/RPMS ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/i386 ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64 ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/ ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES ~/rpmbuild/SPECS ~/rpmbuild/SRPMS
4. echo '%_topdir %(echo $HOME)/rpmbuild' >> ~/.rpmmacros
5. wget -P ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES http://nodejs.org/dist/v0.10.2/node-v0.10.2.tar.gz
6. wget -P ~/rpmbuild/SPECS https://raw.github.com/krishantaylor/node-rpm-spec/master/nodejs.spec
7. rpmbuild -ba ~/rpmbuild/SPECS/nodejs.spec
8. rm ~/.rpmmacros