ci/deps.perl   | 7 +++++++
 ci/profiles.sh | 6 ++++++

diff --git a/ci/deps.perl b/ci/deps.perl
index 32b0226e82a4e5efaa453404844d248b28abc91a..faca4590e156ae545509501f666fe2c774606a44 100755
--- a/ci/deps.perl
+++ b/ci/deps.perl
@@ -58,6 +58,8 @@ # account for granularity differences between package systems and OSes
 my @precious;
 if ($^O eq 'freebsd') {
 	@precious = qw(perl curl Socket6 IO::Compress::Gzip);
+} elsif ($pkg_fmt eq 'rpm') {
+	@precious = qw(perl curl);
 }
 
 if (@precious) {
@@ -168,6 +170,11 @@ 	root(qw(pkg remove -y), @quiet, @pkg_remove) if @pkg_remove;
 	root(qw(pkg install -y), @quiet, @pkg_install) if @pkg_install;
 	root(qw(pkg autoremove -y), @quiet);
 # TODO: yum / rpm support
+} elsif ($pkg_fmt eq 'rpm') {
+	my @quiet = $ENV{V} ? () : ('-q');
+	exclude_uninstalled(\@pkg_remove);
+	root(qw(yum remove -y), @quiet, @pkg_remove) if @pkg_remove;
+	root(qw(yum install -y), @quiet, @pkg_install) if @pkg_install;
 } else {
 	die "unsupported package format: $pkg_fmt\n";
 }
diff --git a/ci/profiles.sh b/ci/profiles.sh
index 5d7c2cf6d2297dddf80e5dbc1dc361ce9ed1cda0..d559ec5f9b742161b80271a429b62f6442bdab74 100755
--- a/ci/profiles.sh
+++ b/ci/profiles.sh
@@ -70,4 +70,10 @@ essential
 essential devtest-
 EOF
 	;;
+centos-7) sed "s/^/$PKG_FMT /" <<EOF
+v2essential devtest
+essential devtest
+all Search::Xapian-
+EOF
+	;;
 esac