Subversion Repositories ALCASAR

By Rexy

ALCASAR need the following programs that don't be included as RPM in Mageia :

  - coovachilli (the captive portal)

  - havp (http antivirus proxy)

  - ipt_netflow kernel module (netflow log system)

  - wkhtmltopdf (html to pdf renderer)

  - nfdump (collector & processor for netflow data)

This howto explains how to build RPM of these programs in order to keep the distribution clean

****  Prepare the RPM creation structure ***

- upadate your system : urpmi --auto-update

- install the following RPMs "kernel-userspace-headers", "rpm-build", "gengetopt", "libtool" packages

- create directories structure in your home : mkdir -p ~/rpmbuild/{SRPMS,SOURCES,SPECS,tmp}

- Option : find the ".rpmmacros" file on mageia wiki (https://wiki.mageia.org/en/Packagers_RPM_tutorial) and copy it in your home directory

****  For Coova-chilli   *****

- retrieve the last tarball of coova-chilli (or the svn archive).

- Untar it and test the compilation process ("sh ./bootstrap", "./configure --enable-json --enable-libjson --enable-mdns", "make", "make install").

- all is in the /usr/local". Remove the instaled files ("make uninstall") and the binaries ("make clean").

- rename the directory and compress it (ie : tar -cvzf coova-chilli-1.4.tar.gz coova-chilli-1.4). Copy this tarball in the directory ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/.

- copy the SPEC file from the ALCASAR archive to the directory ~/rpmbuild/SPEC

- change to the directory ~/pmbuild/SPEC and run the RPM build process excluding 'ssl' : "rpmbuild -bb coova-chilli.spec" (or rpmbuild -ba to create also the SRPMS)

INFO : .spec modifications since Redhat RPM :

	- add this 1st line : "%define _disable_ld_no_undefined 1" to avoid errors for unused variables

	- for 64b version, add 2 lines with "lib64" directory on the section removing statics binaries (rm -rf $RPM_BUILD_ROOT/usr/lib/*.la)

	- remove from the archive the unuused files for ALCASAR (wpad.dat, wwwdir, etc. via la directive '%exclude')

	- change %make (deprecated) with %make_build and change %makeinstall (deprecated) with %make_install

**** For HAVP ****

- install the RPM of clamav-devel

- download, uncompress, and test the compilation of the last version of havp (./configure + make)

- copy the tarball in ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/. copy the patch file ("havp-init.diff") in ~/rpmbuil/SOURCE. Copy and adapt the .spec in ~/rpmbuid/SPEC

- rpmbuild -bb ***.spec

****  For ipt_netflow  ****

- Must be complied on a system which runs the target kernel. So install manually the targeted kernel and reboot (ipt_NETFLOW will not load during this reboot)

- install the RPMs "kernel-server-devel" (choose the targeted kernel), "lib64iptables-devel (or libiptables-devel in 32b arch)"

- download, uncompress and test the compilation of the last version of ipt-netflow (./configure --disable-dkms --disable-snmp-agent, make all install). The module is compiled in the same directory. The libs are copied in the /lib64/iptables (libip6t_NETFLOW.so & libipt_NETFLOW.so)

- test the module : go to the directory of sources and try to load it (depmod + modprobe ipt_NETFLOW), look at "journalctrl -f" and run "lsmod|grep ipt_NETFLOW" to verify if it's loaded. Run "alcasar-iptables.sh" to reload netfilter rules (no errors should appear). Run "alcasar-daemon.sh" to verify that all is ok.

- if all is ok, copy the tarball in rpmbuild/SOURCES. Copy and adapt the .spec in rpmbuild/SPECS (change the versions of kernel and rpm).

- change to the directory ~/pmbuild/SPEC and run "rpmbuild -bb ****.spec"

- install the fresh rpm (urpmi) and load ALCASAR iptables rules (alcasar-iptables.sh). Great job ;-)

**** For wkhtmltopdf ****

- download the archive of the binaries of the last version (https://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html) in ~/rpmbuild/SOURCES/wkhtmltox-%{version}_linux-generic-amd64.tar.xz.

- build with: rpmbuild -bb --clean wkhtmltopdf-%{version}-%{release}.spec

**** For nfdump ****

- install lib64rrdtool-devel, bison, flex