[syslog-ng] syslog-ng OSE binary packages

[Balazs Scheidler]

Hi,

I'm happy to announce that BalaBit has decided to make the binary
packages for syslog-ng OSE available for free. 

As you may know, BalaBit has various syslog-ng support packages and as a
part of this service it prepared binary installation packages for
different platforms. The access to these packages either required a
support contract but could also be purchased separately for a yearly
fee.

With syslog-ng 3.0, the binary packages for syslog-ng OSE will become
freely accessible. 

Since syslog-ng is an open source project, BalaBit planned to finish
this task in the Open Source spirit: open and visible to all community
members. This also means that the set of packages published with this
e-mail is NOT yet release grade, rather it is more of a development
snapshot of the current state of affairs. So please don't ruin your
production systems with this package, it is more advisable to try them
in a test environment (chroot or a dedicated test machine).

With all these said, here is the link:

https://www.balabit.com/network-security/syslog-ng/opensource-logging-system/upgrades/

Please pick the release named "3.0HEAD". This contains a source snapshot
(effectively git from two days ago), and a set of packages for SUSE 10,
RHEL4/5, FreeBSD 6.x, Debian etch, and Linux generic. 

The binary packages contain all runtime dependencies needed to run
syslog-ng, thus no further packages are required, it is an all-in-one
package. The rpm/deb packages are prepared the same, they install
syslog-ng in /opt/syslog-ng in order to avoid clashes with a system
supplied syslog-ng daemon.

There are two install kits for each platform:
  * one that includes database drivers (dubbed as "server")
  * one that does not include database drivers (dubbed as "client")

Currently there are no other differences between the packages, but later
on there might be.

With the current infrastructure in place, I'm confident that with each
syslog-ng OSE release, I can publish the source AND binary packages at
the same time.

I'd really appreciate success/failure reports and also any kind of
comment you may have.

I'd like to release 3.0.2 together with its binary packages, let's hope
that I get enough feedback on these packages so that I can do that.

Enjoy!

-- 
Bazsi