netdev - Re: libbpf distro packaging

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Date:   Wed, 28 Aug 2019 09:12:37 +0200
From:   Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>
To:     Julia Kartseva <hex@...com>
Cc:     Alexei Starovoitov <ast@...com>,
        Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@...il.com>,
        "labbott@...hat.com" <labbott@...hat.com>,
        "acme@...nel.org" <acme@...nel.org>,
        "debian-kernel@...ts.debian.org" <debian-kernel@...ts.debian.org>,
        "netdev@...r.kernel.org" <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        Andrey Ignatov <rdna@...com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@...com>,
        "jolsa@...nel.org" <jolsa@...nel.org>,
        Daniel Borkmann <daniel@...earbox.net>
Subject: Re: libbpf distro packaging

On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 10:30:24PM +0000, Julia Kartseva wrote:
> On 8/25/19, 11:42 PM, "Jiri Olsa" <jolsa@...hat.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 04:00:01PM +0000, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> > > 
> > > Technically we can bump it at any time.
> > > The goal was to bump it only when new kernel is released
> > > to capture a collection of new APIs in a given 0.0.X release.
> > > So that libbpf versions are synchronized with kernel versions
> > > in some what loose way.
> > > In this case we can make an exception and bump it now.
> >
> > I see, I dont think it's worth of the exception now,
> > the patch is simple or we'll start with 0.0.3
> 
> PR introducing 0.0.5 ABI was merged:
> https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf/commit/476e158
> Jiri, you'd like to avoid patching, you can start w/ 0.0.5.
> Also if you're planning to use *.spec from libbpf as a source of truth,
> It may be enhanced by syncing spec and ABI versions, similar to
> https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf/commit/d60f568

cool, anyway I started with v0.0.3 ;-) I'll update
to latest once we are merged in

the spec/srpm is currently under Fedora review:
  https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1745478

you can check it in here:
  http://people.redhat.com/~jolsa/libbpf/v2/

I think it's little different from what you have,
but not in the essential parts

jirka