apt repo

[sammcj]

It would be great if packetbeat had a proper apt repo, this would make keeping on top of releases and automating installs a lot easier

[ptcrash]

+1 for this!

[NITEMAN]

It will also be a lot easier to deploy packetbeat with puppet

[MACscr]

yes, i would love this as well.

[fh]

I tried to use the debian/ dir to build a package and provide it via launchpad. However, those files seem to be partially broken: debian/control misses golang as Build dependency - when I fixed it, it then fails on the import "github.com/ statements in main.go. This should be fixable by customizing debian/rules, but adding a go get there just results in several go-errors.

This is as far as I got, my go-knowledge is by far too limited to debug this. Sorry.

[packetb-old]

That's right, the debian files we have build the agent but only if the dependencies are already there. The reason is that we need a new golang version and other things that are not readily available in debian. We'll work on improving this.

[ruflin]

This will be covered by: https://github.com/elastic/libbeat/issues/209