Wishlist: RHEL/Rocky Support

[Chris Sharp]

OpenSRF is currently supported only for Debian and Ubuntu, which excludes sites running RedHat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) or Rocky (a free distro derived from RHEL) from even testing. I am working up a branch to provide support for installing OpenSRF on both RHEL and Rocky 8.

[Chris Sharp (chrissharp123)]

Branch here: https://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/OpenSRF.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/csharp/rhel-support

Not adding pullrequest yet since I want to also add RHEL/CentOS support to Evergreen.

[Blake GH (bmagic)]

This is great! I would like to spend some time on this as time allows.

[Chris Sharp (chrissharp123)]

I have updated the branch for OpenSRF. I can successfully install and run OpenSRF on Rocky 8.

https://git.evergreen-ils.org/?p=working/OpenSRF.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/user/csharp/rocky_8_support

[Chris Sharp (chrissharp123)]

I can confirm that RHEL 8 works on the same OpenSRF branch.

[Chris Sharp (chrissharp123)]

To update, I did some work on trying to get RHEL 9 OpenSRF support on top of the recent Redis branch, and we've hit an issue where libmemcached is not packaged anywhere and the source package will not install without patching. I think we'll need to wait until memcached can be replaced with Redis/Valkey before moving forward on RHEL. I will investigate Rocky 9 next.