Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] modern Wireshark RPMs for RHEL/CentOS (Was: lua starter (tshark -X is not work

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 02/12/2015 06:03 PM, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2015, at 7:21 AM, Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > The big problem with RHEL/CentOS is that there isn't a repository with a modern Wireshark (that I am aware of).
> >
> > Fedora uses pretty modern Wiresharks now but of course the enterprise distros don't upgrade.
>
> CentOS 7 is really out there on the bleeding edge - they're up to 1.10.3!
>
> 	http://mirror.centos.org/centos/7/os/x86_64/Packages/
>
> Does that mean that RHEL 7 is also providing something equally shiny and new?

Yes.  CentOS is "just" a rebrand + recompile of CentOS.  Their goal is 
to be the same so the versions must therefore be the same.

> (And should we consider building our own RPM packages, and offering them for whatever the Red Hat/CentOS equivalent is to Ubuntu PPAs if there is such an equivalent?  Unfortunately, that might mean building on various versions of RHEL/CentOS if we don't want to make the packages dependent on special packages of its dependencies.)

That would be a wonderful idea.  I'd even contemplated suggesting the 
same and/or committing to keeping some server online, making it a 
buildbot, etc., etc., but, well, so far it's seemed like too much work 
(mainly the "keeping a server online" bit").

I don't know what a PPA is but it's easy enough to set up a yum 
repository and tell people how to install it--that way they need only 
"yum install" or "yum update" to get our packages.  I have an internal 
repository at work from which I distribute (modern) Wireshark RPMs.  It 
only takes a small configuration file, an appropriate directory 
structure, a web server (to serve up the RPMs), and a simple shell 
script to update the repo after adding packages.

Realistically distributing RPMs would require 1 or 2 VMs: one for CentOS 
6 and one for CentOS 7 (CentOS 5 is stuck with Wireshark 1.8(?) because 
of its Gtk+ version).  (An advantage of RHEL/CentOS is the versions are 
few and far between.)

(If we cared about 32-bit RPMs it should be possible to generate a 
32-bit RPM on a 64-bit Red Hat system--at least I was previously able to 
compile and run a 32-bit Wireshark on a 64-bit Fedora but I never tried 
building an RPM.)

If Gerald or someone wants to set up the VMs then I certainly could 
volunteer to do most of the rest of the work.