[CDRIVER-4481] Offer a build of C Driver for RHEL7 and provide on fedora Created: 28/Sep/22 Updated: 13/Feb/23 Resolved: 13/Feb/23 |
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| Status: | Closed |
| Project: | C Driver |
| Component/s: | packaging |
| Affects Version/s: | None |
| Fix Version/s: | None |
| Type: | New Feature | Priority: | Minor - P4 |
| Reporter: | Rachelle Palmer | Assignee: | Roberto Sanchez |
| Resolution: | Won't Do | Votes: | 0 |
| Labels: | bgtrack, rb-track | ||
| Remaining Estimate: | Not Specified | ||
| Time Spent: | Not Specified | ||
| Original Estimate: | Not Specified | ||
| Comments |
| Comment by Rishabh Bisht [ 13/Feb/23 ] |
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Given that the OS in question is very old and with multiple complexities involved, we have decided not to invest efforts in the C driver build for RHEL 7 for now. The users have the option to build the C driver from source. Please feel free to comment if the impact increases in future (or if we have more such customer requests). |
| Comment by Kevin Albertson [ 10/Oct/22 ] |
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Thank you for the response remi. |
| Comment by Remi Collet [ 04/Oct/22 ] |
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libmongoc is not part of RHEL-7 but available in EPEL-7 (community driven repository)
RHEL-7 is terribly old, and everything there is old, but consistent (libmongoc 1.3.6, pecl/mongodb 1.1.10, PHP 5.4) See Updates policy https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/fesco/Updates_Policy/#stable-releases
Updating libmongoc will possibly break packages using it, and probably requires other upgrades, and p.e. latest pecl/mongodb is not compatible with old PHP versions
Sorry, but I really think this doesn't worth the work. RHEL-7 is now >8 years old and is close to its EOL in June 2024.
People wanting modern features should upgrade to modern RHEL-8 or even RHEL-9 |
| Comment by Kevin Albertson [ 03/Oct/22 ] |
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remi there is a request for providing a more recent build of libmongoc on RHEL 7. The latest appears to be 1.3.6: https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/mongo-c-driver. Is that something we can contribute to? |