README.md

A Recipe for a HAProxy 1.9 stable version RPM on CentOS / RHEL / Amazon Linux

Perform the following on a build box as a regular user.

Install Prerequisites for RPM Creation

sudo yum groupinstall 'Development Tools'

Checkout this repository

cd /opt
git clone https://github.com/hiddenstream/rpm-haproxy.git 
cd ./rpm-haproxy
git checkout 1.9

Build using makefile

make

Resulting RPM will be in /opt/rpm-haproxy/rpmbuild/RPMS/

Credits

Based on the Red Hat 6.4 RPM spec for haproxy 1.4 combined with work done by

• @nmilford
• @resmo
• @kevholmes
• Update to 1.8 contributed by @khdevel
• Amazon Linux support contributed by @thedoc31

Additional logging added based on https://www.percona.com/blog/2014/10/03/haproxy-give-me-some-logs-on-centos-6-5/