Hello Jakub, On Fri, 08 Mar 2024, Jakub Ružička wrote: > latest bird2-2.14-1.e7 is available for Rocky 7 from EPEL, but no 8 or 9 > builds. > > Upstream BIRD packaging is tested on Rocky 8 and AlmaLinux 9 which are both > RHEL clones so it should be easy to build. > > I've CC'd Fedora package maintainer in hopes he might do the builds. Note > that upstream RPM packaging is maintained in distro/pkg/rpm, feel free to > sync with Fedora dist-git as needed.
I am the package maintainer of BIRD in Fedora and EPEL. I think you made the mistake to look specifically for "bird2" as package name. However, EPEL 8 and 9 never shipped BIRD 1.x, only 2.x. Thus the "bird" package is 2.x: --- 8< --- $ dnf info bird Last metadata expiration check: 0:33:58 ago on Fri Mar 8 14:06:44 2024. Available Packages Name : bird Version : 2.14 Release : 1.el9 Architecture : x86_64 Size : 500 k Source : bird-2.14-1.el9.src.rpm Repository : epel Summary : BIRD Internet Routing Daemon URL : https://bird.network.cz/ License : GPL-2.0-or-later Description : BIRD is a dynamic IP routing daemon supporting both, IPv4 and IPv6, Border : Gateway Protocol (BGPv4), Routing Information Protocol (RIPv2, RIPng), Open : Shortest Path First protocol (OSPFv2, OSPFv3), Babel Routing Protocol (Babel), : Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD), IPv6 router advertisements, static : routes, inter-table protocol, command-line interface allowing on-line control : and inspection of the status of the daemon, soft reconfiguration as well as a : powerful language for route filtering. $ --- 8< --- The "bird2" package in EPEL 7 only exists, because the configuration file must be adapted when migrating from BIRD 1 to 2. Whether BIRD 3.x will lead to a "bird3" for EPEL 8 and 9 depends on what e.g. Maria is doing (or not doing) in the code ;-) By the way: There is no Rocky Linux 7, there is just CentOS (Linux) 7, and there are Rocky Linux and AlmaLinux 8 and 9. And the latter two projects stepped up when Red Hat unilaterally terminated the CentOS development in favor of CentOS Stream in December 2020. Please note that BIRD 2 is in EPEL 8 since 2019-07-23 and in EPEL 9 since 2021-12-03, which even predates the RHEL 9 final release by about half a year. Thus no need to use foreign buildsystems or local builds for RHEL 8 and 9 (or clones/derivatives) ;-) Kind regards Robert Scheck
