How to build the RPM

• Prepare a linux (e.g. centos)
• Download sonarqube-.zip to ./downloads
• run ./build.sh

System requirements

• Use a linux capable of running yum
  • To make things easy, run a docker container and map this repository clone for further interactive tasks:

    docker run -it -v $(pwd):/sonar-rpm centos /bin/bash
    

    • Install rpm-build and createrepo

    yum install rpm-build createrepo
    

    • (Or build a new docker image based on the changes below and run build directly)

Example

With Sonar 7.6 do the following

Download the Sonar Archive

cd /sonar-rpm/downloads
curl -L -O https://binaries.sonarsource.com/CommercialDistribution/sonarqube-developer/sonarqube-developer-7.6.zip
cd ..

Put the archive into the downloads folder (you may need to rename your distribution to sonarqube-7.6.zip).

Create the rpm package

./build.sh 7.6

Test the rpm package installation locally

yum --nogpgcheck localinstall repo/rpm/noarch/sonar-7.6-1.noarch.rpm 

Test the rpm package on a remote repository

_{Remark: we neglect GPG checks here; please ensure appropriate GPG key handling in real world scenarios.}

• Deploy the RPM as a new artifact onto any RPM repository, e.g. an Artifactory instance.

• Use a regular yum install

  yum install sonar-7.6
  

• In order to successfully install this with yum a custom repository entry must be created

  • Either as a manual entry in the local system, e.g. /etc/yum.repos.d/<any_name>.repo

    [sonar]
    name=Sonar
    baseurl=https://<your-custom-rpm-repo-base-uri>/rpm//sonar/
    gpgcheck=0
    

  • Or by using IaC tools like Ansible to provide such a repository automatically, e.g.

    - name: "SonarQube Artifactory RPM Repository is registered as local yum repo"
      yum_repository:
        name: example-org
        description: "Your Artifactory"
        baseurl: "https://artifacts.example.org/rpm/exmple-org/sonar"
        enabled: yes
        gpgcheck: no
        proxy: _none_
    
    - name: "SonarQube server is installed"
      yum:
        update_cache: true
        pkg: "sonar-{{ sonar_version }}"
        state: installed