On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 11:04:01AM -0800, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 11, 2018 at 04:32:40PM +0100, Timothy Redaelli wrote:
> > Hi,
> > from commit bc4fd439586f ("rhel: Ship ovs shared libraries, fedora")
> > the openvswitch-devel subpackage (in openvswitch-fedora.spec)
> > stated to include both the shared and static libraries.
> >
> > The problem is that this is against the Fedora Packaging Guidelines [1].
> >
> > The guidelines suggest to avoid shipping static libraries if they are
> > not strictly required, so I suggest to drop the static libraries (by
> > passing --disable-static) from openvswitch-fedora.spec (like we do on
> > Fedora [2]).
> >
> > Moreover the libtool archives (*.la) files should not be shipped.
> >
> > If we really want to keep also the static library, we should (in order
> > to be compliant with the Fedora Packaging Guidelines) split the
> > openvswitch-devel package:
> >
> > - The openvswitch-devel package will contain the shared library (.so)
> > and the includes.
> > - The new openvswitch-static package will only contain the static
> > library.
> >
> > What do you think?
>
> Seems reasonable to me, but I'm not sure we really need static libraries
> at all. Martin, the cited commit is yours, do you know of a need for
> static libraries?
It seems reasonable to me as well.
fbl
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