Patrick Dignan created KAFKA-8259:
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Summary: Build RPM for Kafka
Key: KAFKA-8259
URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-8259
Project: Kafka
Issue Type: Improvement
Components: build
Reporter: Patrick Dignan
RPM packaging eases the installation and deployment of Kafka to make it much
more standard.
I noticed in https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/KAFKA-1324 [~jkreps] closed
the issue because other sources provide packaging. I think it's worthwhile for
the standard, open source project to provide this as a base to reduce redundant
work and provide this functionality for users. Other similar open source
software like Elasticsearch create an RPM [(Elasticsearch
RPM)|[https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch/blob/0ad3d90a36529bf369813ea6253f305e11aff2e9/distribution/packages/build.gradle]].
This also makes forking internally more maintainable by reducing the amount
of work to be done for each version upgrade.
I have a patch to add this functionality that I will clean up and PR on Github.
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