Bug#948041: impossible to update libbpf without updating the kernel

2020-01-27 Thread Julia Kartseva
On Sun, 19 Jan 2020 22:32:22 -0800 Andrii Nakryiko wrote: > Libbpf releases are only loosely synchronized with kernel releases, > and it's only due to current convention we established within > community. There is nothing preventing multiple releases of libbpf > between two releases of kernel. So

Bug#948041: impossible to update libbpf without updating the kernel

2020-01-14 Thread Julia Kartseva
On Sun, 12 Jan 2020 09:51:55 +0100 Bastian Blank wrote: > But updating independently does not provide any benefit. As the kernel > repo is still upstream, all upstream chnages will flow into the Debian > archive. An extra package will always lag behind, as changes needs to > flow from kernel

Bug#942903: libbpf library is from kernel source

2019-10-22 Thread Julia Kartseva
Package: libbpf-dev Version: 5.3.7-1 Severity: wishlist Hi, libbpf-dev is currently packaged from kernel sources. Please consider switching to GH mirror [1] so there are following advantages: - Versioning is consistent with ABI - GH mirror has CI tests - Be consistent w/ other distros, e.g.

Re: libbpf distro packaging

2019-10-11 Thread Julia Kartseva
/systemd/pull/13744#issuecomment-541168076 On 10/8/19, 12:40 AM, "Jiri Olsa" wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 07, 2019 at 12:25:51AM +, Julia Kartseva wrote: > > > > I wonder what are the steps to make libbpf available for CentOS {7|8} as > > well? > > One (likely th

Re: libbpf distro packaging

2019-10-06 Thread Julia Kartseva
On 9/30/19, 4:13 AM, "Jiri Olsa" wrote: > heya, > FYI we got it through.. there's libbpf-0.0.3 available on fedora 30/31/32 > I'll update to 0.0.5 version as soon as there's the v0.0.5 tag available > > jirka Hi Jiri, I wonder what are the steps to make libbpf available for CentOS {7|8} as

Re: libbpf distro packaging

2019-10-02 Thread Julia Kartseva
the *.spec file in GH mirror synchronized with the most recent tag so you can take it from the mirror along with tarball. Thanks! [1] https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf/releases/tag/v0.0.5 On 9/30/19, 11:18 AM, "Julia Kartseva" wrote: > Thank you Jiri, that's great news. > > &g

Re: libbpf distro packaging

2019-09-30 Thread Julia Kartseva
Thank you Jiri, that's great news. Adding Marco D'Itri. Marco, I wonder if you are OK with the rationale for libbpf packaging from GH mirror? Can we proceed with switching Debian package as well just like we discussed offline at ASG? The bug report for Fedora: [1] Thank you [1]

Re: libbpf distro packaging

2019-08-27 Thread Julia Kartseva
On 8/25/19, 11:42 PM, "Jiri Olsa" wrote: > On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 04:00:01PM +, Alexei Starovoitov wrote: > > > > Technically we can bump it at any time. > > The goal was to bump it only when new kernel is released > > to capture a collection of new APIs in a given 0.0.X release. > > So

Re: libbpf distro packaging

2019-08-20 Thread Julia Kartseva
On 8/19/19, 11:08 AM, "Julia Kartseva" wrote: On 8/13/19, 11:24 AM, "Andrii Nakryiko" wrote: On Tue, Aug 13, 2019 at 5:26 AM Jiri Olsa wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 07:04:12PM +, Julia Kartseva wrote: > >

libbpf distro packaging

2019-08-12 Thread Julia Kartseva
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,