From 19ca1bb707f1f4d7d644c7803f0e5e8812503cbe Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ricardo Bartels <ricardo.bartels@telekom.de>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2026 22:07:14 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] removes python 3.6 informations and bumps minimum python
 version to 3.12

---
 README.md            | 19 +++++--------------
 requirements_3.6.txt |  7 -------
 2 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-)
 delete mode 100644 requirements_3.6.txt

diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index ce8c6be..e77c9bc 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -30,14 +30,8 @@ This ensures stale objects are removed from NetBox keeping an accurate current s
 
 ## Requirements
 ### Software
-* python >= 3.6
-* packaging
-* urllib3==2.2.1
-* wheel
-* requests==2.31.0
-* pyvmomi==8.0.2.0.1
-* aiodns==3.0.0
-* pyyaml==6.0.1
+* python >= 3.12
+* see [requirements.txt](requirements.txt)
 
 ### Environment
 * NetBox >= 2.9
@@ -49,20 +43,17 @@ This ensures stale objects are removed from NetBox keeping an accurate current s
 # Installing
 * here we assume we install in ```/opt```
 
-## RedHat based OS
-* on RedHat/CentOS 7 you need to install python3.6 and pip from EPEL first
-* on RedHat/CentOS 8 systems the package name changed to `python3-pip`
+## RedHat based distributions
 ```shell
-yum install python36-pip
+yum install python3-pip
 ```
 
-## Ubuntu 18.04 & 20.04 && 22.04
+## Debian (Ubuntu) based distributions
 ```shell
 apt-get update && apt-get install python3-venv
 ```
 
 ## Clone repo and install dependencies
-* If you need to use python 3.6 then you would need `requirements_3.6.txt` to install requirements
 * download and setup of virtual environment
 ```shell
 cd /opt
diff --git a/requirements_3.6.txt b/requirements_3.6.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 77ef4a4..0000000
--- a/requirements_3.6.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,7 +0,0 @@
-packaging
-urllib3==1.26.12
-wheel
-requests==2.27.1
-pyvmomi==7.0.3
-aiodns==2.0.0
-setuptools==59.6.0