Redis 2.6.7 spec file and config for building on CentOS works with instructions found at https://github.com/Sjeanpierre/redis-centos

redis.conf

# Redis configuration file example

# By default Redis does not run as a daemon. Use 'yes' if you need it.
# Note that Redis will write a pid file in /var/run/redis.pid when daemonized.
daemonize yes

# When run as a daemon, Redis write a pid file in /var/run/redis.pid by default.
# You can specify a custom pid file location here.
pidfile /var/run/redis.pid

# Accept connections on the specified port, default is 6379
port 6379

# If you want you can bind a single interface, if the bind option is not
# specified all the interfaces will listen for connections.
#
# bind 127.0.0.1

# Close the connection after a client is idle for N seconds (0 to disable)
timeout 300

# Set server verbosity to 'debug'
# it can be one of:
# debug (a lot of information, useful for development/testing)
# verbose (many rarely useful info, but not a mess like the debug level)
# notice (moderately verbose, what you want in production probably)
# warning (only very important / critical messages are logged)
loglevel warning

# Specify the log file name. Also 'stdout' can be used to force
# the demon to log on the standard output. Note that if you use standard
# output for logging but daemonize, logs will be sent to /dev/null
logfile /var/log/redis

# Set the number of databases. The default database is DB 0, you can select
# a different one on a per-connection basis using SELECT <dbid> where
# dbid is a number between 0 and 'databases'-1
databases 16

################################ SNAPSHOTTING  #################################
#
# Save the DB on disk:
#
#   save <seconds> <changes>
#
#   Will save the DB if both the given number of seconds and the given
#   number of write operations against the DB occurred.
#
#   In the example below the behaviour will be to save:
#   after 900 sec (15 min) if at least 1 key changed
#   after 300 sec (5 min) if at least 10 keys changed
#   after 60 sec if at least 10000 keys changed
#
#   Note: you can disable saving at all commenting all the "save" lines.

save 900 1
save 300 10
save 60 100

# Compress string objects using LZF when dump .rdb databases?
# For default that's set to 'yes' as it's almost always a win.
# If you want to save some CPU in the saving child set it to 'no' but
# the dataset will likely be bigger if you have compressible values or keys.
rdbcompression yes

# The filename where to dump the DB
dbfilename /var/redis/dump.rdb

# For default save/load DB in/from the working directory
# Note that you must specify a directory not a file name.
dir /var/redis/

################################# REPLICATION #################################

# Master-Slave replication. Use slaveof to make a Redis instance a copy of
# another Redis server. Note that the configuration is local to the slave
# so for example it is possible to configure the slave to save the DB with a
# different interval, or to listen to another port, and so on.
#
# slaveof <masterip> <masterport>

# If the master is password protected (using the "requirepass" configuration
# directive below) it is possible to tell the slave to authenticate before
# starting the replication synchronization process, otherwise the master will
# refuse the slave request.
#
# masterauth <master-password>

################################## SECURITY ###################################

# Require clients to issue AUTH <PASSWORD> before processing any other
# commands.  This might be useful in environments in which you do not trust
# others with access to the host running redis-server.
#
# This should stay commented out for backward compatibility and because most
# people do not need auth (e.g. they run their own servers).
#
# requirepass foobared

################################### LIMITS ####################################

# Set the max number of connected clients at the same time. By default there
# is no limit, and it's up to the number of file descriptors the Redis process
# is able to open. The special value '0' means no limits.
# Once the limit is reached Redis will close all the new connections sending
# an error 'max number of clients reached'.
#
# maxclients 128

# Don't use more memory than the specified amount of bytes.
# When the memory limit is reached Redis will try to remove keys with an
# EXPIRE set. It will try to start freeing keys that are going to expire
# in little time and preserve keys with a longer time to live.
# Redis will also try to remove objects from free lists if possible.
#
# If all this fails, Redis will start to reply with errors to commands
# that will use more memory, like SET, LPUSH, and so on, and will continue
# to reply to most read-only commands like GET.
#
# WARNING: maxmemory can be a good idea mainly if you want to use Redis as a
# 'state' server or cache, not as a real DB. When Redis is used as a real
# database the memory usage will grow over the weeks, it will be obvious if
# it is going to use too much memory in the long run, and you'll have the time
# to upgrade. With maxmemory after the limit is reached you'll start to get
# errors for write operations, and this may even lead to DB inconsistency.
#
# maxmemory <bytes>

############################## APPEND ONLY MODE ###############################

# By default Redis asynchronously dumps the dataset on disk. If you can live
# with the idea that the latest records will be lost if something like a crash
# happens this is the preferred way to run Redis. If instead you care a lot
# about your data and don't want to that a single record can get lost you should
# enable the append only mode: when this mode is enabled Redis will append
# every write operation received in the file appendonly.log. This file will
# be read on startup in order to rebuild the full dataset in memory.
#
# Note that you can have both the async dumps and the append only file if you
# like (you have to comment the "save" statements above to disable the dumps).
# Still if append only mode is enabled Redis will load the data from the
# log file at startup ignoring the dump.rdb file.
#
# The name of the append only file is "appendonly.log"
#
# IMPORTANT: Check the BGREWRITEAOF to check how to rewrite the append
# log file in background when it gets too big.

appendonly no

# The fsync() call tells the Operating System to actually write data on disk
# instead to wait for more data in the output buffer. Some OS will really flush 
# data on disk, some other OS will just try to do it ASAP.
#
# Redis supports three different modes:
#
# no: don't fsync, just let the OS flush the data when it wants. Faster.
# always: fsync after every write to the append only log . Slow, Safest.
# everysec: fsync only if one second passed since the last fsync. Compromise.
#
# The default is "everysec" that's usually the right compromise between
# speed and data safety. It's up to you to understand if you can relax this to
# "no" that will will let the operating system flush the output buffer when
# it wants, for better performances (but if you can live with the idea of
# some data loss consider the default persistence mode that's snapshotting),
# or on the contrary, use "always" that's very slow but a bit safer than
# everysec.
#
# If unsure, use "everysec".

# appendfsync always
appendfsync everysec
# appendfsync no

################################ VIRTUAL MEMORY ###############################

# Virtual Memory allows Redis to work with datasets bigger than the actual
# amount of RAM needed to hold the whole dataset in memory.
# In order to do so very used keys are taken in memory while the other keys
# are swapped into a swap file, similarly to what operating systems do
# with memory pages.
#
# To enable VM just set 'vm-enabled' to yes, and set the following three
# VM parameters accordingly to your needs.

vm-enabled no
# vm-enabled yes

# This is the path of the Redis swap file. As you can guess, swap files
# can't be shared by different Redis instances, so make sure to use a swap
# file for every redis process you are running.
#
# The swap file name may contain "%p" that is substituted with the PID of
# the Redis process, so the default name /tmp/redis-%p.vm will work even
# with multiple instances as Redis will use, for example, redis-811.vm
# for one instance and redis-593.vm for another one.
#
# Useless to say, the best kind of disk for a Redis swap file (that's accessed
# at random) is a Solid State Disk (SSD).
#
# *** WARNING *** if you are using a shared hosting the default of putting
# the swap file under /tmp is not secure. Create a dir with access granted
# only to Redis user and configure Redis to create the swap file there.
vm-swap-file /tmp/redis-%p.vm

# vm-max-memory configures the VM to use at max the specified amount of
# RAM. Everything that deos not fit will be swapped on disk *if* possible, that
# is, if there is still enough contiguous space in the swap file.
#
# With vm-max-memory 0 the system will swap everything it can. Not a good
# default, just specify the max amount of RAM you can in bytes, but it's
# better to leave some margin. For instance specify an amount of RAM
# that's more or less between 60 and 80% of your free RAM.
vm-max-memory 0

# Redis swap files is split into pages. An object can be saved using multiple
# contiguous pages, but pages can't be shared between different objects.
# So if your page is too big, small objects swapped out on disk will waste
# a lot of space. If you page is too small, there is less space in the swap
# file (assuming you configured the same number of total swap file pages).
#
# If you use a lot of small objects, use a page size of 64 or 32 bytes.
# If you use a lot of big objects, use a bigger page size.
# If unsure, use the default :)
vm-page-size 32

# Number of total memory pages in the swap file.
# Given that the page table (a bitmap of free/used pages) is taken in memory,
# every 8 pages on disk will consume 1 byte of RAM.
#
# The total swap size is vm-page-size * vm-pages
#
# With the default of 32-bytes memory pages and 134217728 pages Redis will
# use a 4 GB swap file, that will use 16 MB of RAM for the page table.
#
# It's better to use the smallest acceptable value for your application,
# but the default is large in order to work in most conditions.
vm-pages 134217728

# Max number of VM I/O threads running at the same time.
# This threads are used to read/write data from/to swap file, since they
# also encode and decode objects from disk to memory or the reverse, a bigger
# number of threads can help with big objects even if they can't help with
# I/O itself as the physical device may not be able to couple with many
# reads/writes operations at the same time.
#
# The special value of 0 turn off threaded I/O and enables the blocking
# Virtual Memory implementation.
vm-max-threads 4

############################### ADVANCED CONFIG ###############################

# Glue small output buffers together in order to send small replies in a
# single TCP packet. Uses a bit more CPU but most of the times it is a win
# in terms of number of queries per second. Use 'yes' if unsure.
glueoutputbuf yes

# Use object sharing. Can save a lot of memory if you have many common
# string in your dataset, but performs lookups against the shared objects
# pool so it uses more CPU and can be a bit slower. Usually it's a good
# idea.
#
# When object sharing is enabled (shareobjects yes) you can use
# shareobjectspoolsize to control the size of the pool used in order to try
# object sharing. A bigger pool size will lead to better sharing capabilities.
# In general you want this value to be at least the double of the number of
# very common strings you have in your dataset.
#
# WARNING: object sharing is experimental, don't enable this feature
# in production before of Redis 1.0-stable. Still please try this feature in
# your development environment so that we can test it better.
shareobjects no
shareobjectspoolsize 1024

# Hashes are encoded in a special way (much more memory efficient) when they
# have at max a given numer of elements, and the biggest element does not
# exceed a given threshold. You can configure this limits with the following
# configuration directives.
hash-max-zipmap-entries 64
hash-max-zipmap-value 512

################################## INCLUDES ###################################

# Include one or more other config files here.  This is useful if you
# have a standard template that goes to all redis server but also need
# to customize a few per-server settings.  Include files can include
# other files, so use this wisely.
#
# include /path/to/local.conf
# include /path/to/other.conf

redis.spec

%define pid_dir %{_localstatedir}/run/redis
%define pid_file %{pid_dir}/redis.pid

Summary: redis
Name: redis
Version: 2.4.2
Release: 0
License: BSD
Group: Applications/Multimedia
URL: http://code.google.com/p/redis/

Source0: redis-%{version}.tar.gz

BuildRoot: %{_tmppath}/%{name}-%{version}-%{release}-root
BuildRequires: gcc, make
Requires(post): /sbin/chkconfig /usr/sbin/useradd
Requires(preun): /sbin/chkconfig, /sbin/service
Requires(postun): /sbin/service
Provides: redis

Packager: Allan Ralph Hutalla <ahutalla@gmail.com>

%description
Redis is a key-value database. It is similar to memcached but the dataset is
not volatile, and values can be strings, exactly like in memcached, but also
lists and sets with atomic operations to push/pop elements.

In order to be very fast but at the same time persistent the whole dataset is
taken in memory and from time to time and/or when a number of changes to the
dataset are performed it is written asynchronously on disk. You may lose the
last few queries that is acceptable in many applications but it is as fast
as an in memory DB (beta 6 of Redis includes initial support for master-slave
replication in order to solve this problem by redundancy).

Compression and other interesting features are a work in progress. Redis is
written in ANSI C and works in most POSIX systems like Linux, *BSD, Mac OS X,
and so on. Redis is free software released under the very liberal BSD license.

%prep
%setup

%{__cat} <<EOF >redis.logrotate
%{_localstatedir}/log/redis/*log {
    missingok
}
EOF

%{__cat} <<'EOF' >redis.sysv
#!/bin/bash
#
# Init file for redis
#
# chkconfig: - 80 12
# description: A persistent key-value database with network interface
# processname: redis-server
# config: /etc/redis.conf
# pidfile: %{pidfile}

source %{_sysconfdir}/init.d/functions

RETVAL=0
prog="redis-server"

start() {
  echo -n $"Starting $prog: "
  daemon --user redis --pidfile %{pid_file} %{_sbindir}/$prog /etc/redis.conf
  RETVAL=$?
  echo
  [ $RETVAL -eq 0 ] && touch %{_localstatedir}/lock/subsys/$prog
  return $RETVAL
}

stop() {
    PID=`cat %{pid_file} 2>/dev/null`
    if [ -n "$PID" ]; then
        echo "Shutdown may take a while; redis needs to save the entire database";
        echo -n $"Shutting down $prog: "
        /usr/bin/redis-cli shutdown
        if checkpid $PID 2>&1; then
            echo_failure
            RETVAL=1
        else
            rm -f /var/lib/redis/temp*rdb
            rm -f /var/lock/subsys/$prog
            echo_success
            RETVAL=0
        fi
    else
        echo -n $"$prog is not running"
        echo_failure
        RETVAL=1
    fi

    echo
    return $RETVAL
}

restart() {
  stop
  start
}

condrestart() {
    [-e /var/lock/subsys/$prog] && restart || :
}

case "$1" in
  start)
  start
  ;;
  stop)
  stop
  ;;
  status)
  status -p %{pid_file} $prog
  RETVAL=$?
  ;;
  restart)
  restart
  ;;
  condrestart|try-restart)
  condrestart
  ;;
   *)
  echo $"Usage: $0 {start|stop|status|restart|condrestart}"
  RETVAL=1
esac

exit $RETVAL
EOF

%{__cat} <<'EOF' >redis.confv
daemonize yes
pidfile %{pid_file}

port 6379
timeout 300

loglevel notice
logfile %{_localstatedir}/log/redis/redis.log

databases 16

save 900 1
save 300 10
save 60 10000

rdbcompression yes
dbfilename dump.rdb
dir %{_localstatedir}/lib/redis

slave-serve-stale-data yes
appendonly no
appendfsync everysec
no-appendfsync-on-rewrite no
auto-aof-rewrite-percentage 100
auto-aof-rewrite-min-size 64mb
slowlog-log-slower-than 10000
slowlog-max-len 1024
vm-enabled no

hash-max-zipmap-entries 512
hash-max-zipmap-value 64
list-max-ziplist-entries 512
list-max-ziplist-value 64
set-max-intset-entries 512
zset-max-ziplist-entries 128
zset-max-ziplist-value 64
activerehashing yes
EOF

%build
%{__make}

%install
%{__rm} -rf %{buildroot}
mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_bindir}
%{__install} -Dp -m 0755 src/redis-server %{buildroot}%{_sbindir}/redis-server
%{__install} -Dp -m 0755 src/redis-benchmark %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/redis-benchmark
%{__install} -Dp -m 0755 src/redis-cli %{buildroot}%{_bindir}/redis-cli

%{__install} -Dp -m 0755 redis.logrotate %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/logrotate.d/redis
%{__install} -Dp -m 0755 redis.sysv %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/init.d/redis
%{__install} -Dp -m 0644 redis.confv %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/redis.conf
%{__install} -p -d -m 0755 %{buildroot}%{_localstatedir}/lib/redis
%{__install} -p -d -m 0755 %{buildroot}%{_localstatedir}/log/redis
%{__install} -p -d -m 0755 %{buildroot}%{_localstatedir}/redis
%{__install} -p -d -m 0755 %{buildroot}%{pid_dir}

%pre
/usr/sbin/useradd -c 'User for Redis key-value store' -u 5001 -s /bin/false -r -d %{_localstatedir}/lib/redis redis 2> /dev/null || :

%preun
if [ $1 = 0 ]; then
    # make sure redis service is not running before uninstalling

    # when the preun section is run, we've got stdin attached.  If we
    # call stop() in the redis init script, it will pass stdin along to
    # the redis-cli script; this will cause redis-cli to read an extraneous
    # argument, and the redis-cli shutdown will fail due to the wrong number
    # of arguments.  So we do this little bit of magic to reconnect stdin
    # to the terminal
    term="/dev/$(ps -p$$ --no-heading | awk '{print $2}')"
    exec < $term

    /sbin/service redis stop > /dev/null 2>&1 || :
    /sbin/chkconfig --del redis
fi

%post
/sbin/chkconfig --add redis

%clean
%{__rm} -rf %{buildroot}

%files
%defattr(-, root, root, 0755)
%{_sbindir}/redis-server
%{_bindir}/redis-benchmark
%{_bindir}/redis-cli
%{_sysconfdir}/init.d/redis
%config(noreplace) %{_sysconfdir}/redis.conf
%{_sysconfdir}/logrotate.d/redis
%dir %attr(0770,redis,redis) %{_localstatedir}/lib/redis
%dir %attr(0755,redis,redis) %{_localstatedir}/log/redis
%dir %attr(0755,redis,redis) %{_localstatedir}/run/redis
%dir %attr(0755,redis,redis) %{_localstatedir}/redis