diff --git a/juliaup.changes b/juliaup.changes
index 19eb52f..d8180b3 100644
--- a/juliaup.changes
+++ b/juliaup.changes
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+-------------------------------------------------------------------
+Wed Aug 17 12:42:08 UTC 2022 - Soc Virnyl Estela <socvirnyl.estela@gmail.com>
+
+- add fedora or rhel7 to specfile
+
 -------------------------------------------------------------------
 Sun Aug 14 06:21:12 UTC 2022 - socvirnyl.estela@gmail.com
 
diff --git a/juliaup.spec b/juliaup.spec
index d13d2a3..0daf1fd 100644
--- a/juliaup.spec
+++ b/juliaup.spec
@@ -17,6 +17,7 @@
 
 
 %global oldest_supported_julia_version 0.7.0
+%global rustflags -Clink-arg=-Wl,-z,relro,-z,now -C debuginfo=2
 
 # Based on the latest stable release in the https://julialang.org/ website
 # Juliaup follows the versions too in the following permalink:
@@ -76,6 +77,9 @@ URL:            https://github.com/JuliaLang/juliaup
 Source0:        %{name}-%{version}.tar.gz
 Source1:        vendor.tar.gz
 Source2:        cargo_config
+%if 0%{?rhel} > 7 || 0%{?fedora}
+BuildRequires:  cargo
+%endif
 BuildRequires:  cargo-packaging
 Conflicts:      julia
 %provides_julia_versioned julia
@@ -96,10 +100,22 @@ mkdir .cargo
 cp %{SOURCE2} .cargo/config
 
 %build
+%if 0%{?rhel} > 7 || 0%{?fedora}
+unset LIBSSH2_SYS_USE_PKG_CONFIG
+export RUSTFLAGS="%{rustflags}"
+cargo build --offline --release --all-features
+%else
 %{cargo_build}
+%endif
 
 %install
+%if 0%{?rhel} > 7 || 0%{?fedora}
+unset LIBSSH2_SYS_USE_PKG_CONFIG
+export RUSTFLAGS="%{rustflags}"
+cargo install --offline --no-track --root="%{buildroot}%{_prefix}" --path .
+%else
 %{cargo_install}
+%endif
 mkdir -p %{buildroot}%{_sysconfdir}/alternatives
 ln -sf %{_sysconfdir}/alternatives/julia %{buildroot}/%{_bindir}/julia