Re: [nft PATCH] py: load the SONAME-versioned shared object

[Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>]

Hi,

On Tue, Dec 10, 2019 at 12:00:45PM +0100, Arturo Borrero Gonzalez wrote:
> Instruct the python module to load the SONAME versioned shared object.
> 
> Normal end-user systems may only have available libnftables.so.1.0.0 and not
> libnftables.so which is usually only present in developer systems.
> 
> In Debian systems, for example:
> 
>  % dpkg -L libnftables1 | grep so.1
>  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnftables.so.1.0.0
>  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnftables.so.1
> 
>  % dpkg -L libnftables-dev | grep so
>  /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libnftables.so
> 
> The "1" is not a magic number, is the SONAME of libnftables in the current
> version, as stated in Make_global.am.

My intention was to avoid the SONAME dependency, but you're right - it
causes more trouble than good. Who knows, maybe nftables.py does at some
point depend on a specific libntables version.

> Reported-by: Michael Biebl <biebl@debian.org>
> Signed-off-by: Arturo Borrero Gonzalez <arturo@netfilter.org>

Acked-by: Phil Sutter <phil@nwl.cc>

Feel free to push this out, Arturo.

Thanks, Phil