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Patrick Dignan updated KAFKA-8259: ---------------------------------- Description: 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. was: 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. > 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 > Priority: Minor > > 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. -- This message was sent by Atlassian JIRA (v7.6.3#76005)