diff --git a/contrib/linux/redhat/create-rpm.py b/contrib/linux/redhat/create-rpm.py
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+#!/usr/bin/python
+
+import os
+import sys
+import shutil
+import glob
+from optparse import OptionParser
+
+"""
+move rpm files created by rpmbuild to current directory
+"""
+def move_rpm_files(src_dir, dst_dir):
+    for file in glob.glob(os.path.join(src_dir, "*.rpm")):
+         base      = os.path.basename(file)
+         dst_file  = os.path.join(dst_dir, base)
+
+         print("moving " + file + " to " + dst_file)
+         if os.path.exists(dst_file):
+             os.remove(dst_file)
+         shutil.move(file, dst_file)
+
+"""
+get a subdirectory of rpmbuild
+"""
+def get_rpm_directory(dir):
+    cwd = os.getcwd()
+    if len(dir) > 0:
+        return os.path.join(cwd, "rpmbuild", dir)
+    else:
+        return os.path.join(cwd, "rpmbuild")
+        
+
+"""
+remove existing rpmbuild directory and recreate it
+"""
+def create_rpmbuild_directory():
+    subdirs = ["BUILD","RPMS","SOURCES","SPECS","SRPMS"]
+    
+    rpmbuild = get_rpm_directory("")
+    
+    # remove rpmbuild
+    if os.path.exists(rpmbuild):
+        print "removing " + rpmbuild
+        shutil.rmtree(rpmbuild)
+
+    for subdir in subdirs:
+        dir = os.path.join(rpmbuild, subdir)
+        print("creating: " + dir)
+        os.makedirs(dir)
+
+"""
+get the directory where this script in
+"""
+def get_script_directory():
+    script_dir = os.path.dirname(os.path.realpath(__file__))
+    return script_dir
+
+"""
+download gitbucket.war from github.com
+"""
+def get_gitbucket_war_file(filepath, version):
+    import urllib2
+    URL = '/'.join(["https://github.com/gitbucket/gitbucket/releases/download", version, "gitbucket.war"])
+
+    # remove gitbucket.war
+    if os.path.exists(filepath):
+        os.remove(filepath)
+
+    CHUNK = 512 * 1024
+    result = urllib2.urlopen(URL)
+    length = result.headers['content-length']
+
+    print "downloading from " + URL
+    total = 0
+    with open(filepath, 'wb') as f:
+        while True:
+            chunk = result.read(CHUNK)
+            if not chunk:
+                break
+            total += len(chunk)
+            percent = 100 * total / int(length)
+            print "downloading " + str(total) + " bytes" + " / " + str(length) + " bytes" + " (" + str(percent) + " %" + ")"
+            sys.stdout.flush()
+            f.write(chunk)
+
+"""
+enum releases at github.com and returns them as a list
+"""
+def enum_release(owner, repos):
+    import urllib2
+    import re
+
+    # https://api.github.com/repos/<owner>/<repos>/releases
+    URL = '/'.join(["https://api.github.com/repos", owner, repos, "releases"])
+
+    result = urllib2.urlopen(URL)
+
+    # "tag_name":"x.xx.x"
+    re_release = re.compile(r'"tag_name":"(?P<version>.+?)",')
+
+    content = ""
+    for data in result:
+        content += data
+
+    releases = []
+    iterator = re_release.finditer(content)
+    for match in iterator:
+        group = match.group('version')
+        releases.append(group)
+
+    return releases
+
+"""
+open bitbucket.conf and replace the settings based on the command line options
+"""
+def process_gitbucket_conf(orgfile, newfile, options):
+    import re
+
+    fin = open(orgfile, 'r')
+    fout = open(newfile, 'w')
+    
+    re_version = re.compile("GITBUCKET_VERSION=(.*)")
+    re_port    = re.compile("GITBUCKET_PORT=(.*)")
+
+    for data in fin:
+        if re_version.match(data):
+            fout.write("GITBUCKET_VERSION=" + options.version)
+        elif re_port.match(data):
+            fout.write("GITBUCKET_PORT=" + str(options.port))
+        else:
+            fout.write(data)
+        fout.write("\n")
+    
+    fin.close()
+    fout.close()
+
+"""
+open bitbucket.spec and replace the settings based on the command line options
+"""
+def process_gitbucket_spec(orgfile, newfile, options):
+    import re
+
+    fin = open(orgfile, 'r')
+    fout = open(newfile, 'w')
+
+    re_version = re.compile("Version:(.*)")
+
+    for data in fin:
+        if re_version.match(data):
+            fout.write("Version:      " + options.version)
+        else:
+            fout.write(data)
+        fout.write("\n")
+    
+    fin.close()
+    fout.close()
+
+"""
+create rpm
+"""
+def create_rpm(options):
+
+    # remove and create directories for rpmbuild
+    create_rpmbuild_directory()
+    
+    gitbucket_war_path = "gitbucket.war"
+
+    # get gitbucket.war from github.com
+    get_gitbucket_war_file(gitbucket_war_path, options.version)
+
+    SOURCES = get_rpm_directory("SOURCES")
+    SPECS   = get_rpm_directory("SPECS")
+    RPMS    = get_rpm_directory("RPMS")
+
+    # copy gitbucket.war to SOURCES in rpmbuild
+    shutil.copy(gitbucket_war_path, SOURCES)
+
+    # get script directory
+    scriptdir = get_script_directory()
+    
+    # copy gitbucket.init
+    src_gitbucket_init = os.path.join(scriptdir, "gitbucket.init")
+    shutil.copy(src_gitbucket_init, SOURCES)
+    
+    # process gitbucket.conf
+    src_gitbucket_conf = os.path.join(scriptdir, "../..", "gitbucket.conf")
+    dst_gitbucket_conf = os.path.join(SOURCES, "gitbucket.conf")
+    process_gitbucket_conf(src_gitbucket_conf, dst_gitbucket_conf, options)
+
+    # process gitbucket.spec
+    src_gitbucket_spec = os.path.join(scriptdir, "gitbucket.spec")
+    dst_gitbucket_spec = os.path.join(SPECS, "gitbucket.spec")
+    process_gitbucket_spec(src_gitbucket_spec, dst_gitbucket_spec, options)
+
+    # call rpmbuild
+    import subprocess
+    from subprocess import Popen
+
+    cmd = "rpmbuild -ba " + dst_gitbucket_spec + " --define '_topdir " + get_rpm_directory("") + "'"
+    print cmd
+    sys.stdout.flush()
+
+    proc = Popen( cmd, shell=True )
+    proc.wait()
+
+    # remove gitbucket.war
+    if os.path.exists(gitbucket_war_path):
+        os.remove(gitbucket_war_path)
+
+    # move rpm files to cureent directory
+    src_rpm_directory = os.path.join(RPMS, "noarch")
+    cwd = os.getcwd()
+    move_rpm_files(src_rpm_directory, cwd)
+
+    # remove rpmbuild directory
+    rpmbuild = get_rpm_directory("")
+    if os.path.exists(rpmbuild):
+        print "removing " + rpmbuild
+        shutil.rmtree(rpmbuild)
+
+"""
+enum releases for gitbucket
+"""
+def enum_gitbucket_release():
+    releases = enum_release('gitbucket', 'gitbucket')
+    return releases
+
+def is_rpmbuild_available():
+    import distutils.spawn
+
+    if distutils.spawn.find_executable('rpmbuild') != None:
+       return True
+    else:
+       return False
+
+"""
+main function
+"""
+def main():
+    parser = OptionParser()
+    parser.add_option("--version", dest="version",
+                      help="specify gitbucket version")
+    parser.add_option("--port",
+                      action="store", dest="port", default=8080,
+                      help="specify port number")
+    parser.add_option("--command",
+                      action="store", dest="command",
+                      help="list-version or create")
+
+    if len(sys.argv) == 1:
+        parser.print_help()
+        sys.exit(1)
+
+    (options, args) = parser.parse_args()
+
+    if options.command == None:
+         parser.error("--command must be specified")
+
+    if options.command == "create":
+        releases = enum_gitbucket_release()
+        if len(releases) == 0:
+            print "no available version"
+            sys.exit(1)
+
+        if is_rpmbuild_available() != True:
+            print "you need to install rpmbuild in advance with 'dnf install rpm-build'"
+            sys.exit(1)
+
+        if options.version == None:
+           options.version = releases[0]
+        elif options.version not in releases:
+            print "not valid version: " + options.version
+            print "use '--command list-version' to show available versions"
+            sys.exit(1)
+        create_rpm(options)
+    elif options.command == "list-version":
+        releases = enum_gitbucket_release()
+        for release in releases:
+            print release
+    else:
+        print "command must be create or list-version"
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()
+