diff --git a/.circleci/config.yml b/.circleci/config.yml
index a02a1df14..918591256 100644
--- a/.circleci/config.yml
+++ b/.circleci/config.yml
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ platform-build-defs: &platform-build-defs
 
 after-platform-builds: &after-platform-builds
   requires:
-    - build-centos7
+    # - build-centos7
     - build-bionic
     - build-xenial
 
@@ -358,7 +358,7 @@ workflows:
       - platform-build:
           name: build-xenial
           platform: xenial
-          <<: *on-any-branch
+          <<: *platform-build-defs
       - coverage:
           <<: *on-any-branch
           <<: *after-linter
diff --git a/opt/readies b/opt/readies
index 0f048e34a..b6d26cf55 160000
--- a/opt/readies
+++ b/opt/readies
@@ -1 +1 @@
-Subproject commit 0f048e34a03cc860313e827dc5a31afe8d9918fd
+Subproject commit b6d26cf551f0f648cc1b04fa60daa4959cfbc796
diff --git a/opt/system-setup.py b/opt/system-setup.py
index 946db12d9..d3ed69242 100755
--- a/opt/system-setup.py
+++ b/opt/system-setup.py
@@ -5,8 +5,9 @@
 import argparse
 
 HERE = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+READIES = os.path.join(HERE, "readies")
 ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.join(HERE, ".."))
-sys.path.insert(0, os.path.join(HERE, "readies"))
+sys.path.insert(0, READIES)
 import paella
 
 #----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
@@ -19,9 +20,6 @@ def common_first(self):
         self.install_downloaders()
         self.setup_pip()
         self.pip_install("wheel virtualenv")
-        # if self.osnick == 'xenial': 
-        #     self.pip_install("setuptools --upgrade")
-        #     self.pip_install("-IU --force-reinstall setuptools")
 
         if self.os == 'linux':
             self.install("ca-certificates")
@@ -32,17 +30,6 @@ def debian_compat(self):
         self.install("gawk")
         self.install("build-essential")
         self.install("libssl-dev")
-        self.run("""
-        apt remove -y --purge --auto-remove cmake
-        version=3.19
-        build=0
-        mkdir ~/temp
-        cd ~/temp
-        wget https://cmake.org/files/v$version/cmake-$version.$build-Linux-x86_64.sh 
-        mkdir /opt/cmake
-        sh cmake-$version.$build-Linux-x86_64.sh --prefix=/opt/cmake --skip-license
-        ln -s /opt/cmake/bin/cmake /usr/local/bin/cmake
-        """)
         self.install("clang-format")
         self.install("python3-regex")
         self.install("python3-psutil python3-networkx python3-numpy") # python3-skimage
@@ -53,22 +40,11 @@ def redhat_compat(self):
         self.run("%s/readies/bin/enable-utf8" % HERE)
 
         self.group_install("'Development Tools'")
-
-        self.install("centos-release-scl")
-        self.install("devtoolset-8")
-        self.run("cp /opt/rh/devtoolset-8/enable /etc/profile.d/scl-devtoolset-8.sh")
-
+        self.run("%s/bin/getgcc --modern" % READIES)
         self.install("llvm-toolset-7")
 
-        paella.mkdir_p("%s/profile.d" % ROOT)
-        self.run("cp /opt/rh/devtoolset-8/enable %s/profile.d/scl-devtoolset-8.sh" % ROOT)
-
-        self.run("""
-            dir=$(mktemp -d /tmp/tar.XXXXXX)
-            (cd $dir; wget -q -O tar.tgz http://redismodules.s3.amazonaws.com/gnu/gnu-tar-1.32-x64-centos7.tgz; tar -xzf tar.tgz -C /; )
-            rm -rf $dir
-            """)
-
+        if self.arch == 'x64':
+            self.install_linux_gnu_tar()
 
         if not self.dist == "amzn":
             self.install("epel-release")
@@ -79,30 +55,23 @@ def redhat_compat(self):
             self.install("python3-devel")
             self.pip_install("psutil")
 
-        self.install("cmake3")
-        self.run("ln -sf `command -v cmake3` /usr/local/bin/cmake")
-
         self.install_git_lfs_on_linux()
 
     def fedora(self):
         self.group_install("'Development Tools'")
-        self.install("cmake")
-        self.run("ln -sf `command -v cmake3` /usr/local/bin/cmake")
         self.install("python3 python3-psutil python3-networkx")
         self.install("clang")
         self.install_git_lfs_on_linux()
 
     def macos(self):
-        if sh('xcode-select -p') == '':
-            fatal("Xcode tools are not installed. Please run xcode-select --install.")
-
         self.install_gnu_utils()
-        self.install("cmake")
         self.install("git-lfs")
         self.install("redis")
         self.install("clang-format")
 
     def common_last(self):
+        self.run("%s/bin/getcmake" % READIES)
+
         self.run("python3 -m pip uninstall -y ramp-packer RLTest || true")
         # redis-py-cluster should be installed from git due to redis-py dependency
         self.pip_install("--no-cache-dir git+https://github.com/Grokzen/redis-py-cluster.git@master")