Re: libbpf distro packaging
- To: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@fb.com>
- Cc: Julia Kartseva <hex@fb.com>, Andrii Nakryiko <andrii.nakryiko@gmail.com>, "labbott@redhat.com" <labbott@redhat.com>, "acme@kernel.org" <acme@kernel.org>, "debian-kernel@lists.debian.org" <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>, "netdev@vger.kernel.org" <netdev@vger.kernel.org>, Andrey Ignatov <rdna@fb.com>, Yonghong Song <yhs@fb.com>, "jolsa@kernel.org" <jolsa@kernel.org>, Daniel Borkmann <daniel@iogearbox.net>
- Subject: Re: libbpf distro packaging
- From: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>
- Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 08:42:35 +0200
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On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 04:00:01PM +0000, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On 8/23/19 2:22 AM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > btw, the libbpf GH repo tag v0.0.4 has 0.0.3 version set in Makefile:
> >
> > VERSION = 0
> > PATCHLEVEL = 0
> > EXTRAVERSION = 3
> >
> > current code takes version from libbpf.map so it's fine,
> > but would be great to start from 0.0.5 so we don't need to
> > bother with rpm patches.. is 0.0.5 planned soon?
>
> 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
jirka
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