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[jira] [Created] (KAFKA-8259) Build RPM for Kafka

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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