we are considering to provide packages for a number of different
.deb and .rpm based distributions starting with Bro 2.4, using the
OpenSuse build service.
As a first step, I have created a repository that contains nightly Bro
builds for CentOs, Debian, Fedora, Suse Linux, Scientific Linux,
Univention as well as Ubuntu.
At the moment, Bro is installed into /opt/bro and broctl needs root
permissions to run. Users in the Bro group (which is automatically created