Debian packages for 1.6.5 and 2.0.3

[Ondrej Zajicek]

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On Tue, Feb 05, 2019 at 12:38:43AM +0100, Cybertinus wrote:
> Hello Bird users,
> 
> Is there any ETA for the packages for Bird 1.6.5 and 2.0.3?
> 
> I'm running a production network with Bird and I want to upgrade my Debian
> routers to the latest version of Debian. I was planning on combining this
> with the upgrade from Bird 1.6.4 to 1.6.5, in order to have downtime only
> once instead of two times.

Hello

I cannot give precise ETA for our/official packages, as it is a bit
organizationally complex, depends on multiple people, and we are often
interrupted by higher priority tasks like bugfixes.

Note that 1.6.5 is already in Debian Testing and Unstable

You could build 1.6.5 and 2.0.3 Debian packages for BIRD pretty easily:


BIRD 1.6.5:

gbp clone https://salsa.debian.org/debian/bird
cd bird
gbp buildpackage --git-builder=debuild --git-export-dir=/tmp/bird --git-no-pristine-tar  --no-sign -us -uc

BIRD 2.0.3:

gbp clone https://salsa.debian.org/debian/bird2
cd bird2
gbp buildpackage --git-builder=debuild --git-export-dir=/tmp/bird --git-no-pristine-tar  --no-sign -us -uc

(need to have proper build dependencies, result is in /tmp/bird)

They can be build on Debian Unstable, When building on Debian Stable (Stretch),
the second one (2.0.3) requires debhelper (and its dependencies) from backports.


There are unofficial Debian packages i just built:

ftp://varda.crfreenet.org/users/santiago/tmp/bird_1.6.5-1_amd64.deb
ftp://varda.crfreenet.org/users/santiago/tmp/bird2_2.0.3-1_amd64.deb

Should work on both Unstable and Stable, although the second one (2.0.3)
requires newer init-system-helpers package, which can be downloaded from
Unstable and manually installed to Stable.

Note that due to how colliding files between bird and bird2 are handled,
if one have 1.6.4 or older, then s/he should either upgrade to 1.6.5,
remove package and install 2.0.3, or purge 1.6.4 one and install 2.0.3,
but should not just remove 1.6.4 and install 2.0.3.


> Furthermore I'm doing RPKI validation at the moment with 1.6.x, but the
> somewhat hacky way in which I'm doing this is falling apart now, so I think
> I need to upgrade to Bird 2.0.x in the near future, so I can use the RTR
> protocol and do RPKI validation in a way less hacky way.
> 
> But for both I need Debian packages :). I know this e-mail can come across
> like I'm pushing hard for packages, but I hope you understand that it isn't
> meant that way. I would like to know when the packages are expected to be
> available, so I can start planning my next actions and have my network
> running as smoothly as possible with the most current versions of the
> software.
> 
> Kind regards,
> Cybertinus

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