Backporting Gearmand, libgearman on Centos 6 ( the latest version )

Lets get to work straight away:

wget http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/epel/7/SRPMS/g/gearmand-1.1.12-2.el7.src.rpm

yum install rpm-build yum-utils -y

yum groupinstall "Development Tools" -y

rpm --nomd5 -ivh gearmand-1.1.12-2.el7.src.rpm

cd ~/rpmbuild/SPECS

yum-builddep gearmand.spec

rpmbuild -bp gearmand.spec

rpmbuild -ba gearmand.spec

cd ~/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64

rpm -ivh *.rpm

Preparing...                ########################################### [100%]
    package libgearman-1.1.12-2.el6.x86_64 is installed
    package gearmand-1.1.12-2.el6.x86_64 is is installed
    package libgearman-devel-1.1.12-2.el6.x86_64 is installed
    package gearmand-debuginfo-1.1.12-2.el6.x86_64 is installed

Verify:

rpm -qa | grep gearman

libgearman-1.1.12-2.el6.x86_64
gearmand-1.1.12-2.el6.x86_64
gearmand-debuginfo-1.1.12-2.el6.x86_64
libgearman-devel-1.1.12-2.el6.x86_64

PECL Extension:

yum -y install php-pear php-devel

pecl channel-update pecl.php.net

pecl install gearman

echo extension=gearman.so >> /etc/php.ini

Verify:

php -i | grep gearman

gearman
gearman support => enabled
libgearman version => 1.1.12

pecl list

Installed packages, channel pecl.php.net:
=========================================
Package Version State
gearman 1.1.2   stable

Porting to another machine :

To install the four packages,first copy them to another machine like this:

scp /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/x86_64/* root@ip-address:/home

ssh root@ip-address

cd /home

yum localinstall *.rpm -y

yum groupinstall "Development Tools" -y

Same steps to be followed for PECL extension.