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Drupal RPM

Packaging a Module

Log in to the dev server (13) as wsadmin. The following example shows how to package the media module version 7.x-2.0-rc3.

$ cd rpmbuild
$ ./package-drupal-module.sh media 7.x-2.0-rc3

If you need to customize the build (e.g. by applying a patch), edit SPECS/drupal-media.spec.in and run package-drupal-module.sh again.

Packaging Drupal

$ ./package-drupal.sh version

Updating the Repo

Run ./update-repo.sh to update the repository metadata and publish the repository.

Prepare the Server

Create the following file: /etc/yum.repos.d/drupal.repo

# /etc/yum.repos.d/drupal.repo
[drupal]
name=Drupal
baseurl=http://www.uoguelph.ca/ccs/repos/drupal/drupal-$releasever/
enabled=0
skip_if_unavailable=1
gpgcheck=0

Install Drupal

# yum --enablerepo=drupal install drupal

Update Drupal

# yum --enablerepo=drupal update drupal

Install a Module

# yum --enablerepo=drupal install module

Update a Module

# yum --enablerepo=drupal update module

Directory Layout

Drupal files are distributed according to the Linux Filesystem Hierarchy standard. Configuration files (sites) are in /etc/drupal. Files are in /var/lib/drupal. PHP code is in /usr/share/drupal.

/etc/drupal
    /sites
        /all -> /usr/share/drupal
        /default
            /files -> /var/lib/drupal/files
/usr/share/drupal
    /core
        /sites -> /etc/drupal/sites
    /modules   (aka sites/all/modules)
    /themes    (aka sites/all/themes)
    /libraries (aka sites/all/libraries)
/var/lib/drupal/files

Written on March 7, 2017