Re: liblockdep soname versioning

[Sasha Levin <sasha.levin@oracle.com>]

On 04/01/2014 08:56 AM, Josh Boyer wrote:
> Hi Sasha,
>
> We've had a request [1] to package up liblockdep in Fedora.  Looking
> things over, I noticed the library isn't actually versioned at all and
> instead just builds a plain .so file.  That's likely fine during
> development of it, but if distros are to ship it for broader use then
> it would be a good idea to specify the soname and use a versioned .so.
>
> The makefile already has LIBLOCKDEP_VERSION defined.  Would it be
> possible to use this as the soname and version number?  Then
> liblockdep.so could be the normal symlink to the versioned .so
> (liblockdep.so.0.0.1 in this case).
>
> Thanks.
>
> josh
>
> [1] https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1082763
>

Sure! I never expected it to live outside the kernel tree as a separate
package, but I'm happy to accommodate for that.

I think that I'll just match the version number with the kernel version
since what mostly matters is what you have in kernel/lockdep.c, so for
example, right now we'll have 'liblockdep.so.3.15.0'. Sounds good?


Thanks,
Sasha