This has been annoying to work out.

The puppet apache module will by default create the document root for a virtualhost if it is not already defined. But since I wanted the documentroot to be managed by a custom RPM I don’t have a reference to the actual directory in puppet.

I’ve published a project on github https://github.com/practicalweb/vagrant-rpmbuild

The project contains a Vagrant config file, and Puppet manifests that together with an appropriate basebox will create a VM setup to build RPMS and host them on a Custom Yum repository

To run this

If you want to create custom rpms and install then with the usual automated dependency management you’ll need your own yum repository. This is just the RPMS and metadata in the format of static xml files served by a webserver.