On Wed, May 25, 2022 at 11:15 AM William Lallemand <wlallem...@haproxy.com> wrote:
> On Tue, May 24, 2022 at 08:56:14PM +0000, Alford, Mark wrote: > > Do you have instruction on the exact library needed to fo the full > install on RHEL 7 and RHEL 8 > > > > I read the INSTALL doc in the tar ball and the did the make command and > it failed because of LUA but lua.2.5.3 is installed > > > > Please help > > > > > Hello, > > I'm using this thread to launch a call for help about the redhat > packaging. > I am the maintainer for all the Red Hat and Fedora packages. Feel free to ask questions here on the mailing list or email me directly. > We try to document the list of available packages here: > https://github.com/haproxy/wiki/wiki/Packages > > The IUS repository is know to work but only provides packages as far as > 2.2. no 2.3, 2.4 or 2.5 are there but I'm seeing an open ticket for > the 2.4 here: https://github.com/iusrepo/wishlist/issues/303 > > Unfortunately nobody ever step up to maintain constantly the upstream > releases for redhat/centos like its done for ubuntu/debian on > haproxy.debian.net. > I try to keep Fedora up to date with latest upstream, but once a release goes into a specific Fedora release (eg. haproxy-2.4 in Fedora 35) I don't update to haproxy-2.5 in that same release. I have in the past and I get angry emails about rebasing to a newer release. I've spoken to Willy about this in the past and we seem to be in agreement on this. RHEL is different. We almost never rebase to a later major release for the lifetime of RHEL. The one exception was when we added haproxy-1.8 to RHSCL (software collections) in RHEL7 since the base RHEL7 had haproxy-1.5 and there were significant features added to the 1.8 release. I get this complaint often for haproxy in RHEL. Keep in mind that RHEL is focused on consistency and stability over a long period of time. I can't stress this enough - it is extremely rare to rebase to a new, major release of haproxy (or anything else) in a major RHEL release. For example, RHEL9 has haproxy-2.4 and will likely always have that version. I do often rebase to newer minor release to pick up bug fixes (eg. haproxy-2.4.8 will be updated to haproxy-2.4.17, but very unlikely to be anything beyond the latest 2.4 release). I understand this is not for everybody. Maybe it could be done with IUS, its as simple as a pull request on > their github for each new release, but someone need to be involve. > > I'm not a redhat user, but from time to time someone is asking for a > redhat package and nothing is really available and maintained outside of > the official redhat one. > As mentioned elsewhere, COPR is likely the best place for this. It had been awhile since I've used it, but there have been times I did special, unsupported builds in COPR for others to use. Hope this helps. Ryan
