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Re: libbpf distro packaging

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On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 07:04:12PM +0000, Julia Kartseva wrote:
> I would like to bring up libbpf publishing discussion started at [1].
> The present state of things is that libbpf is built from kernel tree, e.g. [2]
> For Debian and [3] for Fedora whereas the better way would be having a
> package built from github mirror. The advantages of the latter:
> - Consistent, ABI matching versioning across distros
> - The mirror has integration tests
> - No need in kernel tree to build a package
> - Changes can be merged directly to github w/o waiting them to be merged
> through bpf-next -> net-next -> main
> There is a PR introducing a libbpf.spec which can be used as a starting point: [4]
> Any comments regarding the spec itself can be posted there.
> In the future it may be used as a source of truth.
> Please consider switching libbpf packaging to the github mirror instead
> of the kernel tree.
> Thanks
> 
> [1] https://lists.iovisor.org/g/iovisor-dev/message/1521
> [2] https://packages.debian.org/sid/libbpf4.19
> [3] http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/fedora/devel/rawhide/x86_64/l/libbpf-5.3.0-0.rc2.git0.1.fc31.x86_64.html
> [4] https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf/pull/64

hi,
Fedora has libbpf as kernel-tools subpackage, so I think
we'd need to create new package and deprecate the current

but I like the ABI stability by using github .. how's actually
the sync (in both directions) with kernel sources going on?

thanks,
jirka

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