gRPC RPM for Fedora Linux

[Jeff Mendoza]

Hi gRPC Community. I have been working on an RPM for gRPC on Fedora
Linux. I plan on going through the process of contributing the rpm to
Fedora, but have not started that yet. I'm looking for any feedback on
the rpm. I'm still working out the many rpmlint issues, but it is
currently usable.

To test you need to be on Fedora 26 or rawhide. I have the rpm up on
OBS[1]. Here is an example of running the C++ quickstart without
building gRPC or protobuf!


# Add my dnf repo
wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jeffmendoza/Fedora_26/home:jeffmendoza.repo
sudo cp ./home\:jeffmendoza.repo /etc/yum.repos.d/

# Have a C++ dev environment
sudo dnf install gcc-c++ make git pkg-config

# Install grpc devel libs to build against, and the protoc plugin to
autogen grpc code from protos
sudo dnf install grpc-devel grpc-plugins

# Get some sample grpc code (don't actually need core grpc code)
git clone -b v1.4.1 https://github.com/grpc/grpc
cd grpc/examples/cpp/helloworld/

# Build sample code
make

# Works!
./greeter_server &
Server listening on 0.0.0.0:50051

./greeter_client
Greeter received: Hello world


[1] https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/home:jeffmendoza/gRPC

[April Kyle Nassi]

Hi Jeff, are you still looking for testers?

[Jeff Mendoza]

Hi April. Yes I am, I haven't had much feedback. Being able to develop
or just run binaries that link grpc without building from source
should be an improvement. I'm thinking that not many people have
Fedora environments. I believe RHEL/CentOS is a popular server
environment, and Fedora is the feeder to those.

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[john.ob...@gmail.com]

On Tuesday, July 11, 2017 at 5:55:53 PM UTC+2, Jeff Mendoza wrote:

Hi gRPC Community. I have been working on an RPM for gRPC on Fedora
Linux. I plan on going through the process of contributing the rpm to
Fedora, but have not started that yet. I'm looking for any feedback on
the rpm. I'm still working out the many rpmlint issues, but it is
currently usable.

Hi Jeff,

I've been looking for a gRPC c++ RPM for quite some time. I would *really* like to see this in Fedora & RHEL.

-- john

[Dave Quigley]

Hi Jeff,

If you are still interested in working on the spec file I can test it for you. I am more interested in using it for providing the core grpc library for use wth grpc-c.

Dave