We currently use CentOS.  If that means we have to maintain this, so be it. 

Jim 

> On Dec 14, 2020, at 6:42 PM, Paul Vinciguerra <pvi...@vinciconsulting.com> 
> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Damjen,
> 
> Thanks for approving my change.
> 
> Hi Dave,
> 
> That was what I wanted to understand.  I think some folks here may use rpm's. 
>  If they don't want to take over the responsibility of maintaining the spec, 
> I'm +1 for removing the rpm build and saving the resources on the CI.
> 
> I just know that it means that the docs and vpp_config would have to be 
> updated, but I don't know what else.
> 
> Paul
> 
>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 6:50 PM Dave Wallace <dwallac...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> I agree with Damjan.  It was orphaned by the RedHat folks who left the 
>> project a long time ago.
>> I'd recommend removing centos support sooner rather than later as it is 
>> simply wasting energy at this point.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> -daw-
>> 
>> On 12/14/2020 1:57 PM, Paul Vinciguerra wrote:
>>> Is the maintenance burden the unwanted child, or the RPM itself?
>>> 
>>> Now that it was announced that Centos 8 will be EOL'd at the end of 2021, 
>>> yet Centos 7 EOL's in 2024, Should we go back to supporting Centos 7 or 
>>> should we plan to drop the process of building rpms before Centos 8 ends 
>>> support?   
>>> 
>>> On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 1:37 PM Damjan Marion <dmar...@me.com> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> AFAIK it is unwanted child….
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> — 
>>>> Damjan
>>>> 
>>>> 
>>>>> On 14.12.2020., at 18:17, Paul Vinciguerra <pvi...@vinciconsulting.com> 
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>> 
>>>>> Is there a maintainer? There is no entry in the Maintainers file. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> https://gerrit.fd.io/r/c/vpp/+/30408 
>>>>> fixes failures on centos-8 due to an older cmake package.  I'd bet that 
>>>>> it probably breaks something that we're not testing, though. 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>>> 
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>> 
> 
> 
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