This project is an attempt to build RPMs for Phusion Passenger for Fedora Core 14+, RHEL 5.5+, and CentOS 5.5+ (both via EPEL)

The easiest way to install Passenger and keep it up to date is to install the passenger-release package from the main repository:

(If you use yum to install, it will expect the package to be signed, so you’ll need import the GPG key first. Using RPM to install will work without the import and subsequent calls to yum will then have the key locally.)

Fedora Core 16

rpm --import http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-stealthymonkeys.asc
yum install http://{http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/fedora/16/passenger-release.noarch.rpm}[link:http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/fedora/16/passenger-release.noarch.rpm]

Fedora Core 15

rpm --import http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-stealthymonkeys.asc
yum install http://{http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/fedora/15/passenger-release.noarch.rpm}[link:http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/fedora/15/passenger-release.noarch.rpm]

Fedora Core 14

rpm --import http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-stealthymonkeys.asc
yum install http://{http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/fedora/14/passenger-release.noarch.rpm}[link:http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/fedora/14/passenger-release.noarch.rpm]

RHEL / CentOS / ScientificLinux 6.x + EPEL

rpm --import http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/RPM-GPG-KEY-stealthymonkeys.asc
yum install http://{http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/rhel/6/passenger-release.noarch.rpm}[link:http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/rhel/6/passenger-release.noarch.rpm]

RHEL / CentOS / ScientificLinux 5.x + EPEL

rpm -Uvh http://{http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/rhel/5/passenger-release.noarch.rpm}[link:http://passenger.stealthymonkeys.com/rhel/5/passenger-release.noarch.rpm]

NOTE: The RHEL-based distributions are built upon packages in EPEL, and require it to be installed.

The passenger-release package adds a new Yum repository to your configuration. From here you can use the yum command to install Passenger packages:

yum install nginx-passenger

yum install mod_passenger

yum install passenger-standalone

(You probably only need one of the commands above)

passenger-release

Yum configuration necessary to query the main repository (and its mirrors) for updates.

rubygem-passenger

The base passenger Gem. Most of the package lives here.

mod_passenger

The Apache webserver dynamically loadable module.

nginx-passenger

A version of the nginx webserver with the passenger module statically linked (nginx does not support dynamically loadable modules)

passenger-standalone

The passenger-standalone server. As of 3.0.0-11 this package is correctly built and installed and is now safe to use. This package was renamed from rubygems-passenger-standalone in 3.0.1-4. No action is required to upgrade from older packages via yum.

rubygem-passenger-native

The compiled helper executables required by mod_passenger and nginx-passenger

rubygem-passenger-native-libs

The passenger_native_support.so shared library compiled against a given ruby engine. This package is separated to simplify building one for a different ruby engine.

nginx-alternatives

A meta-package to put nginx under the alternatives system so that multiple versions of the binary can co-exist. This package is meant to be Obsoleted by a future nginx package which should contain this functionality.

rubygem-daemon_controller

A gem for robust daemon managment. Required by rubygem-passenger.

rubygem-passenger-debuginfo

Standard debugger symbols for the above packages. (Turned off in the 3.0.0 tree due to debugging symbols containing %builddir paths. This will be reinstaed in a later release)

There are 3 ways to build packages:

This is the simplest option, and the only option that doesn’t (likely) require sudo access.

1. Download an SRPM from the repository

2. rpmbuild --rebuild <SRPM file>

1. Clone this repository

2. rake package:rpm

1. Clone this repository

2. rake package:yum

The first time the two rake tasks above are run they will probably need to sudo in order to install and/or setup some of the dependencies. It will prompt you with a list of commands it will run, and ask you to hit “return” to continue.

More to come!