[Zeek] Binary packages and 3.1

[Johanna Amann]

Hello Everyone,

I have a few small updates on the migration of the binary packages to 
3.1.

As announced in the last email, there is now a “zeek-lts” package. 
This package will track the LTS releases of Zeek - and currently 
contains Zeek 3.0.3.

As of today, the “zeek” package also is still on 3.0.3. Sometime 
next week I will switch the zeek package over to 3.1.

If you want are using our current binary packages and want to remain on 
the LTS release of zeek, the only thing you have to do is to perform a

“apt install zeek-lts” on debian-based systems, or a

“yum/dnf install zeek-lts --allowerasing”

This will install zeek-lts and remove the conflicting zeek package. The 
install locations for zeek-lts and zeek are exactly the same 
(/opt/zeek), so nothing else will change.

Please let me know if you encounter any problems,
  Johanna

On 7 Feb 2020, at 11:18, Johanna Amann wrote:

> Hi Everyone,
>
> with the Zeek 3.1 release around the corner, I just wanted to outline 
> my
> current plan for the binary packages.
>
> As we outlined in
> https://blog.zeek.org/2019/04/new-zeek-release-schedule.html, 3.1 will
> be the first “feature release” which will exist alongside Zeek 3.0
> (which sill still get patches).
>
> I currently plan to update the “zeek” package to 3.1, and to
> introduce a new zeek-lts package for people who want to stay on 3.0. 
> The
> zeek-lts package will continue to track 3.0 until zeek 4.0 is released 
> -
> at which point zeek-lts will be updated to 4.0. This means with the 
> 4.0
> release zeek-lts and zeek will essentially be the same package - until
> the release of 4.1 when they will diverge again.
>
> Please let me know if you have any feelings about this - if I don’t
> hear back anything I will create the zeek-lts package in the next few
> days - and write another message about it to this thread.
>
> Johanna
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