# Canonical packer sources?

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/canonical-packer-sources/61925>\
**Category:** Beats\
**Created:** [September 30, 2016, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/canonical-packer-sources/61925 "2016-09-30T14:02:22Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![raboof](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/raboof/32/9851_2.png) [@raboof](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/raboof)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/canonical-packer-sources/61925/1 "2016-09-30T14:02:22Z")

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I noticed we have a [https://github.com/elastic/beats-packer](https://github.com/elastic/beats-packer) repository, but also [https://github.com/elastic/beats/tree/master/dev-tools/packer](https://github.com/elastic/beats/tree/master/dev-tools/packer) inside the beats repo.

The beats repo seems to have more recent changes. Does the code in the beats repo replace the beats-packer repo, or is there some more complicated relationship?

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**Author:** ![andrewkroh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/andrewkroh/32/3784_2.png) [@andrewkroh](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/andrewkroh)\
**Post date:** [September 30, 2016, 10:09pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/canonical-packer-sources/61925/2 "2016-09-30T22:09:02Z")

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The code in the elastic/beats-packer repo is used only for building the 1.X releases of beats. For 5.x and all future versions we are using the code in dev-tools/packer. It's easier to keep everything in sync when all the code is in the elastic/beats repo. So eventually we won't need the separate elastic/beats-packer repo (after 1.x is no longer maintained).

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**Author:** ![raboof](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/raboof/32/9851_2.png) [@raboof](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/raboof)\
**Post date:** [October 1, 2016, 5:27pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/canonical-packer-sources/61925/3 "2016-10-01T17:27:07Z")

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Makes sense! Thanks for the quick response!

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [October 21, 2016, 2:02pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/canonical-packer-sources/61925/4 "2016-10-21T14:02:25Z")

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