Dear mailing list,
as announced in https://osmocom.org/news/246, the rpm packages for CentOS 8 / AlmaLinux 8 are unmaintained.
sysmocom is currently still ensuring that the rpm binary packages build from the rpm spec files we have in our git repositories. But this is also significant effort that we would rather spend elsewhere, and so we are considering to stop providing rpm builds altogether and possibly removing these spec files from our git repositories.
This affects the official Osmocom binary package repositories (nightly and latest) for CentOS 8/AlmaLinux 8 and openSUSE Tumbleweed.
Stable versions of Osmocom programs are also in openSUSE's official repositories and can be installed from there.
So, is anyone using the official Osmocom rpm repositories?
As OsmoDevCon is coming up this weekend, we can also discuss it there, feel free to talk to me about it.
Best regards, Oliver
Dear All,
On Tue, Apr 30, 2024 at 11:13:03AM +0200, Oliver Smith wrote:
as announced in https://osmocom.org/news/246, the rpm packages for CentOS 8 / AlmaLinux 8 are unmaintained. [...]
So, is anyone using the official Osmocom rpm repositories?
As there was no feedback from any related user[s], we decided to stop building RPM packages altogether.
We'd be happy to re-introduce RPM builds if somebody commits to taking care of maintaining them [or fund maintenance]. In the absence of known users and nobody stepping up as maintainer, we think we'd rather invest our limited resources at fixing more bugs and developing new features in osmo-* rather than maintaining RPM builds for various distributions.
We continue to maintain dpkg builds for various Debian, Ubuntu and Raspbian versions. There's also roox aka mnhauke who independently maintains some RPM feeds for osmo-* on OpenSUSE.
See https://osmocom.org/news/255 for the related announcement.
Regards, Harald
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Harald Welte -
Oliver Smith