Bird 2 for CentOS/EPEL 6?

[Tim Meusel]

Hi Robert,

thanks for the answer. I already assumed such an issue :(
I'm aware of the EOL in November, but I'm afraid  I still need to roll
it out up to that date.

Thanks for your quick answer. I will go with Bird 1 in that case.

Regards, Tim

On 01.07.20 22:05, Robert Scheck wrote:
> On Wed, 01 Jul 2020, Tim Meusel wrote:
>> I'm happily using Bird 2 on multiple CentOS 7 nodes. Sadly I now need to
>> rollout BGP to some CentOS 6 boxes :sadface:. I noticed that
>> ftp://bird.network.cz/pub/bird/centos/ only contains CentOS 7 packages,
>> and EPEL 6 only has Bird 1.6.8. However I wanted to ask if Bird 2 would
>> work on CentOS 6? Would Bird itself compile but dependencies are
>> outdated/missing?
> 
> since BIRD 2.0.5, a C compiler newer than contained in CentOS 6 is needed;
> I had to drop BIRD 2 from EPEL 6 due to this. See also the old thread here:
> 
>  - http://trubka.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/2019-August/013634.html
>  - http://trubka.network.cz/pipermail/bird-users/2019-August/013631.html
> 
> But given CentOS 6 reaches end of lifetime in November (!), please migrate
> these boxes to CentOS 8 or at least 7. There, BIRD 2 is even in EPEL :)
> 
> 
> Regards,
>   Robert
>