RFE: bump RPM build to EL 9 as CentOS 7/CentOS Stream 8 will vanish soon

[space88man]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
RPM distro support is for CentOS 7. However this will disappear from mirrors soon (30 Jun 2024) and be graveyard-ed at vault.centos.org.

To be clear - the packages will be removed from the CentOS mirror system (includes CentOS Stream 8 as well).

• https://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos-devel/2024-March/165575.html
• https://blog.centos.org/2023/04/end-dates-are-coming-for-centos-stream-8-and-centos-linux-7/

Describe the solution you'd like
Build RPM packages for EL 9 on files.freeswitch.org - although EL 8 (RHEL, AlmaLinux, Rocky etc) would be nice too it is now considered feature complete and CentOS Stream 8 will vanish soon as well.

It would seem that RHEL 9.3+ has more runway.

Futhermore FreeSWITCH 1.10.11 has good support for OpenSSL 3 and Python 3 (due to Debian 12) and this meshes well with EL 9.

Describe alternatives you've considered

• debian 12; but some places are RPM-shops so not easy to pivot.
• (kinda workable) run .deb packages in docker / podman / systemd-nspawn / lxc

Additional context
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Package version or git hash

• Version of FreeSWITCH 1.10.11

[cpmkasinski]

OKay have working el8 RPMs for latest release. I don't know if they published they spec file though.
Debian was always a recommended platform so i wouldn't expect any changes anytime soon.

https://rhel.pkgs.org/8/okey-x86_64/freeswitch-1.10.11-1.el8.x86_64.rpm.html