BIRD 2.0.4 (with RPKI support) in EPEL 7/8 (for RHEL/CentOS 7/8)

[Toke Høiland-Jørgensen]

Robert Scheck <bird at robert-scheck.de> writes:

> Hello all,
>
> BIRD 2.0.4 (with RPKI support) is available in EPEL 7 and 8 (for RHEL/
> CentOS 7 and 8). And there is also a package in EPEL 6, but without RPKI
> due to too old libssh version in RHEL/CentOS 6.
>
>  - RHEL/CentOS 7: yum install --enablerepo=epel-testing bird2
>  - RHEL 8: https://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=1319598

This is great, thanks!

> Please note that the packaging is slightly different related to upstream's
> RPM packages (e.g. BIRD drops root privileges and its configuration files
> and directories are not world readable; /run/bird/bird.ctl socket rather
> /var/run/bird.ctl), but it also covers more architectures (x86_64, aarch64,
> ppc64le; and EL8 even s390x).

Should we try to consolidate those differences? I'm the co-maintainer of
the Fedora package :)

-Toke