Requirements

Quickstart

If you want to use prebuilt RPMS for testing on a standard CentOS machine, you can follow what is below. The following was tested on the official CentOS 7 Amazon machine image.

If you want to build yaml2rpm RPMS and install them from source repo, see Building

Prerequisites

1. Python 2 or 3. Required python modules: argparse, socket, datetime. There are 4 python modules that will be automatically built and installed during the “Building” step:

   • future: for compatibility of python 2/3 code

   • ruamel-yaml & ruamle-ycml-clib: used by the main script gen-definitions.py

   • setuptools: for build python dependent packages.

2. If you are using a very stripped-down CentOS image (similar to the official CentOS 7 image in Amazon, you will want to make certain you have the following packages and package groups installed

   yum groupinstall "Development Tools" "Console Internet Tools"
   yum install redhat-lsb wget zlib-devel environment-modules
   . /etc/profile.d/modules.sh
   

3. Install the development RPMS

   Go to the Development RPMS repository for the latest pre-built RPMs and instructions. After following those instructions, you can build your first RPM from source.