Hi, I've just submitted a PR that makes it easy to build rpms and debs locally, out of a freshly checked out syslog-ng tree and/or a release tarball. If you download a release tarball (one that contains debian packaging files), all you need to build it to Ubuntu or Debian is: # this one builds the Ubuntu build image locally $ dbld/rules image-zesty $ dbld/rules deb-zesty But rpm-centos7 and deb-jessie also work. Check out the help screen for dbld/rules and the PR. This should make it pretty trivial to get binaries that you can deploy in production. This is just a bare-bones stuff, later on support can be added to a lot more distros. If you want to use it in a freshly cloned copy of syslog-ng, checked out from github, that will not have debian packaging (at least for now), you'll need to merge the "release" branch in order to get them. # this one gets the debian/rpm packaging locally $ git clone git@github.com:balabit/syslog-ng.git $ cd syslog-ng $ git merge origin/release $ dbld/rules image-centos7 $ dbld/rules rpm-centos7 I still don't like that the "release" branch lives separate, but I can't change that without discussing it with our Debian maintainer first. -- Bazsi