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Plans for libbpf packaging for distros?
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Hi Jakub, Laura and Jiri Olsa (Cc others),
Subj: iovisor-dev] minutes: IO Visor TSC/Dev Meeting (To: iovisor-dev <iovisor-dev@...>) On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 14:30:25 -0700 "Brenden Blanco" <bblanco@...> wrote: Jakub:I noticed from the iovisor-dev minutes that you have plans for packaging libbpf from the kernel tree. And via that I noticed the github repo https://github.com/libbpf/libbpf, created by Yonghong Song. I'm uncertain if it makes sense to maintain this library outside the kernel git tree?!? To be honest, I have very little knowledge about building RPMs and other packages formats. I just wanted to point out that RHEL and Fedora is now shipping bpftool, which also part of kernel git tree. (Now I need input from Jiri Olsa and Laura to correct below statements:) AFAIK bpftool RPM-package[1] is part of the "Source Package" kernel-tools, which AFAIK gets build directly from the distro kernel git tree via kernel.spec file. This also happens for perf RPM-package[2] see section "Source Package" also point to kernel-tools. So, my question is, can we ship/package libbpf in the same way? Notice, that an increasing number of tools are linking/using libbpf, e.g. perf, bpftool, Suricata, (selftests and samples/bpf). [1] https://fedora.pkgs.org/28/fedora-x86_64/bpftool-4.16.0-1.fc28.x86_64.rpm.html [2] https://fedora.pkgs.org/29/fedora-x86_64/perf-4.18.10-300.fc29.x86_64.rpm.html -- Best regards, Jesper Dangaard Brouer MSc.CS, Principal Kernel Engineer at Red Hat LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/brouer |