[Zeek] Binary packages and 3.1

[Johanna Amann]

In additional news - after a request and a bit of digging there now are 
CentOS 8 builds.

And since I did not include it before - all download links are listed at 
https://old.zeek.org/download/packages.html

Johanna

On 19 Mar 2020, at 13:03, Johanna Amann wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> this changeover happened now; the zeek package now is at version 
> 3.1.1;
> zeek 3.0.3 is still available in the zeek-lts package.
>
> Due to the fact that Zeek 3.1 requires newer C++ compilers, we also
> dropped support for a number of distributions. The zeek package is now
> no longer available for:
>
> CentOS 7, Debian 9, Raspbian 9, SLE 12 SP4, SLE 12 SP5, Ubuntu 14.04
>
> (zeek-lts is still and will continue to be available for these
> distributions).
>
> For reference, the current list of distributions that we build the 
> zeek
> package for are:
>
> Debian 10, Debian Testing, Fedora 20, Fedora 30, Fedora 31, Raspbian 
> 10,
> SLE 15, SLE 15 SP1, OpenSUSE Lep 15.1, OpenSUSE Leap 15.2, OpenSUSE
> Tumbleweeb, Ubuntu 18.04, Ubuntu 18.10, Ubuntu 19.04, Ubuntu 19.10.
>
> Johanna
>
> On 12 Mar 2020, at 10:21, Johanna Amann wrote:
>
>> 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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