This post explains how we can accelerate buildig a Ceph RPM package. Knowledge in the post can be generally applied to packaging all other applications, not only Ceph. Ceph source code is managed by Github 1, and it contains several shell scripts for packaging as well. Before illustrating how these scripts work, we have to figure out how RPM packaging works. 1. RPM Packaing 101 # RPM (originally stands for Red Hat Package Manager) is a package management system developed by Red Hat 2.
