From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-7.2 required=3.0 tests=HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS, MAILING_LIST_MULTI,MENTIONS_GIT_HOSTING,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS,URIBL_BLOCKED, USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73D7FC32750 for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2019 12:24:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [209.132.180.67]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F3822067D for ; Tue, 13 Aug 2019 12:24:24 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1727274AbfHMMYX (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Aug 2019 08:24:23 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([209.132.183.28]:57210 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1726974AbfHMMYX (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Aug 2019 08:24:23 -0400 Received: from smtp.corp.redhat.com (int-mx07.intmail.prod.int.phx2.redhat.com [10.5.11.22]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.redhat.com (Postfix) with ESMTPS id D54C2C03D478; Tue, 13 Aug 2019 12:24:22 +0000 (UTC) Received: from krava (unknown [10.43.17.33]) by smtp.corp.redhat.com (Postfix) with SMTP id E6F2010013A1; Tue, 13 Aug 2019 12:24:20 +0000 (UTC) Date: Tue, 13 Aug 2019 14:24:20 +0200 From: Jiri Olsa To: Julia Kartseva Cc: "labbott@redhat.com" , "acme@kernel.org" , "debian-kernel@lists.debian.org" , "netdev@vger.kernel.org" , Andrii Nakryiko , Andrey Ignatov , Alexei Starovoitov , Yonghong Song , "jolsa@kernel.org" Subject: Re: libbpf distro packaging Message-ID: <20190813122420.GB9349@krava> References: <3FBEC3F8-5C3C-40F9-AF6E-C355D8F62722@fb.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3FBEC3F8-5C3C-40F9-AF6E-C355D8F62722@fb.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.12.1 (2019-06-15) X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.84 on 10.5.11.22 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-4.5.16 (mx1.redhat.com [10.5.110.31]); Tue, 13 Aug 2019 12:24:22 +0000 (UTC) Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: netdev@vger.kernel.org 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