While looking at how to install drush for CentOS 5.5, I was amazed that there were no RPMs available. Luckily, someone did all the hard work and created a script to build the rpm here: http://www.workhabit.com/labs/drush-rpm-form

Using their script: http://www.workhabit.com/sites/default/files/rpm_build-drush.txt, which I am reproducing here:

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1#!/usr/bin/perl
2# 20101012-1
3
4# This script packages Drush in binary .rpm form for easy installation. It
5# will automagically set up a proper environment for building RPMs in the
6# invoker's home directory. Note that the proper rpm building package
7# (rpm-build for RHEL or CentOS for example) must be installed. This script
8# also depends on basic utilities being available (tar, wget).
9#
10# Note that the resulting package has no actual dependencies; theoretically,
11# it should probably have dependencies on PHP. We're using non-standard PHP
12# packages and I'd like to make this script public, though. ;)
13#
14# Drush itself ends up in /usr/local/drush; a symlink for 'drush' is created
15# in /usr/bin. As per standard RPM building convention, this script should NOT
16# be run as the root user.
17#
18# Syntax is: rpm_build-drush (URL for drush version to package)
19#
20# Example: rpm_build-drush http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drush-6.x-3.3.tar.gz
21
22### Global Variables
23# Change this to your organization/etc.
24my $packager = "Visible Systems Team";
25
26my $home = "$ENV{HOME}";
27my ($tarball, $version, $outrider);
28my @files;
29
30
31
32
33### Check for arguments
34if(@ARGV[0] eq "")
35{
36 print "Error: You must specify the URL of the drush package to download.\n";
37 exit 1;
38}
39
40
41
42
43### Grab pertinent version info
44# Get our actual package filename
45@ARGV[0] =~ m/(drush.+\.gz)$/;
46$tarball = $1;
47
48# Get our version
49$version = $tarball;
50$version =~ s/^drush-//;
51$version =~ s/\.tar\.gz$//;
52# - is invalid in RPM versioning; replace with _
53$version =~ s/-/_/g;
54
55
56
57
58### Set up our rpm building structure
59print "...Setting up build directories...\n";
60# Some of this is unnecessary given that we're creating a binary-only
61# package through unconventional means, but we might as well set up the
62# whole shebang.
63system("/bin/mkdir -p $home/rpmbuild/{BUILD,RPMS,S{OURCE,PEC,RPM}S}");
64# If .rpmmacros exists, back it up.
65if(-e "$home/.rpmmacros")
66{
67 system("cp $home/.rpmmacros $home/.rpmmacros.old");
68}
69system("echo -e \"\%_topdir\\t\$HOME/rpmbuild\" > $home/.rpmmacros");
70if((system("mkdir -p /tmp/drush-$version/usr/local") >> 8) != 0)
71{
72 print "Error: Could not create temporary build root\n";
73 exit 2;
74}
75
76
77
78
79### Retrieve drush
80print "...Retrieving and unpacking drush...\n";
81# Retrieve
82if((system("wget -m -nd @ARGV[0] -P /tmp") >> 8) != 0)
83{
84 print "Error: Could not retrieve drush from @ARGV[0]\n";
85 exit 3;
86}
87# Unpackage
88if((system("tar -zxf /tmp/$tarball -C /tmp/drush-$version/usr/local/") >> 8) != 0)
89{
90 print "Error: Could not unpackage $tarball\n";
91 exit 4;
92}
93
94
95
96
97### Retrieve list of files included in the drush package
98@files = `find /tmp/drush-$version/usr/local/drush -type f`;
99
100
101
102
103### Write out our .spec file
104print "...Creating .spec file...\n";
105# Open the .spec file for writing
106open(SPEC, ">$home/rpmbuild/SPECS/drush-$version.spec") || die "Error: Could not open .spec file for writing.";
107print SPEC "Summary: drush\n";
108print SPEC "Name: drush\n";
109print SPEC "Version: $version\n";
110print SPEC "Release: 1\n";
111print SPEC "License: GPL v2\n";
112print SPEC "Vendor: http://drush.ws/about\n";
113print SPEC "Packager: $packager\n";
114print SPEC "Group: Development/Tools\n";
115print SPEC "BuildArch: noarch\n";
116print SPEC "BuildRoot: /tmp/drush-$version\n\n";
117print SPEC '%description' . "\n";
118print SPEC "drush - a command line shell and scripting interface for Drupal.\n\n";
119print SPEC '%prep' . "\n\n";
120print SPEC '%build' . "\n\n";
121print SPEC '%install' . "\n\n";
122print SPEC '%post' . "\n";
123print SPEC 'ln -s /usr/local/drush/drush /usr/bin/drush' . "\n\n";
124print SPEC '%postun' . "\n";
125print SPEC 'rm -f /usr/bin/drush' . "\n\n";
126print SPEC '%clean' . "\n\n";
127print SPEC '%files' . "\n";
128print SPEC '%defattr(-,root,root)' . "\n";
129# Now, drop our files in.
130for $outrider ( @files )
131{
132 $outrider =~ s/\/tmp\/drush-$version//;
133 print SPEC $outrider;
134}
135print SPEC "\n";
136print SPEC '%changelog' . "\n";
137close(SPEC);
138
139
140
141
142### Create our binary rpm.
143print "...Building binary RPM...\n";
144if((system("rpmbuild -bb $home/rpmbuild/SPECS/drush-$version.spec") >> 8) != 0)
145{
146 print "Error: Failed to create binary .rpm\n";
147 exit 5;
148}
149
150
151
152
153### Exit cleanly.
154print "\n\nBuild complete.\n";
155print "Your package should be available at $home/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/drush-$version-1.noarch.rpm\n\n";
156exit 0;

You will need perl and rpmbuild if you wish to build the packages:

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1yum install perl rpm-build

Once you've got the right tools, you can build the latest ones from http://drupal.org/project/drush

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1# perl rpm_build-drush.pl http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drush-6.x-4.0-rc9.tar.gz
2...Setting up build directories...
3...Retrieving and unpacking drush...
4--2011-01-05 13:44:31-- http://ftp.drupal.org/files/projects/drush-6.x-4.0-rc9.tar.gz
5Resolving ftp.drupal.org... 140.211.166.134
6Connecting to ftp.drupal.org|140.211.166.134|:80... connected.
7HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
8Length: 240870 (235K) [application/x-gzip]
9Server file no newer than local file `/tmp/drush-6.x-4.0-rc9.tar.gz' -- not retrieving.
10
11...Creating .spec file...
12...Building binary RPM...
13Executing(%prep): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.56550
14+ umask 022
15+ cd /root/rpmbuild/BUILD
16+ exit 0
17Executing(%build): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.56550
18+ umask 022
19+ cd /root/rpmbuild/BUILD
20+ exit 0
21Executing(%install): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.56550
22+ umask 022
23+ cd /root/rpmbuild/BUILD
24+ /usr/lib/rpm/brp-compress
25+ /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip
26+ /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-static-archive
27+ /usr/lib/rpm/brp-strip-comment-note
28Processing files: drush-6.x_4.0_rc9-1
29Requires(interp): /bin/sh /bin/sh
30Requires(rpmlib): rpmlib(CompressedFileNames) <= 3.0.4-1 rpmlib(PayloadFilesHavePrefix) <= 4.0-1
31Requires(post): /bin/sh
32Requires(postun): /bin/sh
33Requires: /usr/bin/env
34Checking for unpackaged file(s): /usr/lib/rpm/check-files /tmp/drush-6.x_4.0_rc9
35Wrote: /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/drush-6.x_4.0_rc9-1.noarch.rpm
36Executing(%clean): /bin/sh -e /var/tmp/rpm-tmp.38487
37+ umask 022
38+ cd /root/rpmbuild/BUILD
39+ exit 0
40
41
42Build complete.
43Your package should be available at /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/drush-6.x_4.0_rc9-1.noarch.rpm

Now we copy it to the current folder and install it

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1cp /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/drush-6.x_4.0_rc9-1.noarch.rpm .
2yum --nogpgcheck localinstall drush-6.x_4.0_rc9-1.noarch.rpm

I built out the latest as of this writing 4.0 rpm, which is attached:
drush-6.x_4.0_rc9-1.noarch.rpm

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