Building a perl package for Amazon Linux, CentOS or RHEL

A previous post detailed on how to build a .deb file for a perl module on Ubuntu. However, I needed the updated module as a .rpm on an Amazon Linux system, so I created the procedure for that OS as well. It was a lot easier than I thought it would be.

# install general dependencies of Net::Amazon::EC2
sudo yum --enablerepo=epel install \
    perl-Net-Amazon-EC2 perl-File-Slurp perl-DBI perl-DBD-MySQL \
    perl-Net-SSLeay perl-IO-Socket-SSL perl-Time-HiRes perl-Params-Validate \
    perl-Date-Manip perl-DateTime perl-DateTime-Format-ISO8601 \
    ca-certificates

# install stuff required for the build
sudo yum --enablerepo=epel install cpanspec rpm-build.x86_64
sudo yum --enablerepo=epel install perl-Test-Exception perl-CPAN

# generate .spec file
PACKAGER="John Smith <jsmith@example.com>"
cpanspec --packager "$PACKAGER" -v Net::Amazon::EC2

# get the source
mkdir -p rpmbuild/SOURCES
wget -Orpmbuild/SOURCES/Net-Amazon-EC2-0.23.tar.gz \
    http://search.cpan.org/CPAN/authors/id/M/MA/MALLEN/Net-Amazon-EC2-0.23.tar.gz

# don't set these or tests will fail
unset AWS_ACCESS_KEY_ID
unset SECRET_ACCESS_KEY

# do the build
rpmbuild -bb perl-Net-Amazon-EC2.spec