[GitHub] [couchdb] konrad-ohms opened a new issue #2231: RHEL 8 Support for CouchDB

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konrad-ohms opened a new issue #2231: RHEL 8 Support for CouchDB
URL: https://github.com/apache/couchdb/issues/2231
 
 
   ## Summary
   CouchDB v2.3.1 does not provide RPM packages for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 at the moment, the [bintray repositories](http://apache.bintray.com/couchdb-rpm/) are only providing el6 and el7 packages.
   
   ## Desired Behaviour
   I would appreciate having RPM based precompiled packages for RHEL 8 hosts ([released in May 2019](https://developers.redhat.com/blog/2019/05/07/red-hat-enterprise-linux-8-now-generally-available/)).
   
   ## Possible Solution
   Add CentOS 8 build node in Jenkins https://github.com/apache/couchdb/blob/a5858b99506dfcd843e8edb9ed06c85d783b0545/Jenkinsfile#L145-L183 and potentially adjust compile instructions/dependencies.
   
   ## Additional context
   While trying to build a CouchDB OCI/Docker image for the Red Hat's OpenShift platform I tried to find installation instructions of CouchDB for Red Hat based installations. I found instructions to [install CouchDB 2.3.1 on RHEL 6 and RHEL 7](http://docs.couchdb.org/en/latest/install/unix.html#installation-using-the-apache-couchdb-convenience-binary-packages), but it looks like that no package is available for RHEL 8. Is it planned to add support for RHEL 8 in future or maybe only in new CouchDB versions?
   
   Currently my other images are based on Red Hat Universal Base Image 8 (base image name: `registry.access.redhat.com/ubi8-minimal`, see also [RHEL 8 Documentation](https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-us/red_hat_enterprise_linux/8/html-single/building_running_and_managing_containers/index?extIdCarryOver=true&intcmp=701f20000012k6YAAQ&sc_cid=701f2000001OH7EAAW#using_minimal_red_hat_base_images) or [Introducing the Red Hat Universal Base Image](https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/introducing-red-hat-universal-base-image)), CouchDB right now need to use Red Hat Universal Base Image 7 as base image in order to leverage existing rpms for RHEL 7.
   I cannot directly use docker images provided by the CouchDB project, as only RHEL or UBI based images are getting certified on Red Hat OpenShift, therefore [the existing Dockerfile](https://github.com/apache/couchdb-docker/blob/3bcc626d30623789b4750d076f059bcd010c2a04/2.3.1/Dockerfile) is not an option for my use case as it is based on Debian and will not pass the certification.

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