Re: libbpf distro packaging

[Jiri Olsa <jolsa@redhat.com>]

On Thu, Mar 05, 2020 at 03:18:12PM +0100, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 04:22:35PM -0800, Julia Kartseva wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > On 12/20/19 5:58 AM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > > On Thu, Dec 19, 2019 at 09:37:23PM +0000, Julia Kartseva wrote:
> > >> Hi Jiri,
> > >>
> > >> 1. v. 0.0.6 is out [1], could you please package it?
> > >> 2. we might need a small spec update due to zlib is made an explicit
> > >> dependency in [2]. zlib should be listed in BuildRequires: section of the
> > >> spec so it's consistent with libbpf.pc
> > > 
> > > sure, it's ok for rawhide, in fedora 31/30 we still don't have
> > > latest headers packaged
> > > 
> > >> 3. Do you plan to address the bug report [3] for CentOS? Namely rebuilding
> > >> Fedora's RPM and publishing to EPEL repo?
> > > 
> > > I did not get any answers on who would do that internally,
> > > so I'm afreaid I'll have to do it, but let me ask again first ;-)
> > >
> > 
> > Bump :)
> > Jiri, any volunteers for Fedora EPEL 7|8 packaging?
> > systemd folks would appreciate it.
> > Thanks!
> 
> hi,
> yep.. we've got Cestmir as 'volunteer' for that (cc-ed) ;-) I can see
> there's already epel8 branch for libbpf created.. but not sure what's
> the actual rpm status

so I did some more checking and libbpf is automatically pulled into
centos 8, it's just at the moment there's some bug preventing that.. 
it is going to be fixed shortly ;-)

as for centos 7, what is the target user there? which version of libbpf
would you need in there?

jirka