Extend support for CentOS/Redhat 7 for erlang (openssl issue) about erlang-rpm HOT 7 CLOSED

A team at VMware might need a CentOS 7 package of Erlang 24 or 25, so I decided to try it and so far, I've noticed that the OpenSSL 1.1 package is x86_64 only, and so is everything related to CentOS 7.

I need to set up an x86_64 host to continue but since we support x86_64 or aarch64 builds now, this is a yet another example of how CentOS 7 is hopelessly behind the times.

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You have a support subscription with Red Hat, not our team. You get this package for free, it is open source, you can build packages in any environment that can run Docker.

CentOS and RHEL offer these crazy support timelines if 10 years, sorry, I am not signing up for anything like that, in particular for tools you expect to get for free.

You can fork this repo and build your own packages with any modifications you need.

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I find it very ironic that such projects exist because CentOS and RedHat have dropped the ball on maintaining up-to-date Erlang (and other software) packages, and are always years behind on everything.

And now their paying customers expect open source maintainers to do the job of the RHEL packaging team for free, maintaining a distribution from 2013 in 2023.

Pretty unbelievable.

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@michaelklishin

I am just offering a technical and almost "effortless" (the openssl library is already packaged) to get a little more support.
Anyway, I understand your position. I won't argue with the "politic" arguments and you are probably right.

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Thanks for the try! Ok I see openssl is indeed not in aarch64, not ideal!

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Thanks to @Gsantomaggio we now have a one-off pair of CentOS 7 packages of Erlang 25.3.1 that are statically linked against OpenSSL 1.1.x.

They were added to the release. We do not plan on regularly building these versions
but if it works well for CentOS 7 users, it would allow them to run even RabbitMQ 3.12.x (expected to ship this month).

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