Subject: Re: libbpf distro packaging

From: Jiri Olsa <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2019 08:42:35 +0200

On Fri, Aug 23, 2019 at 04:00:01PM +0000, Alexei Starovoitov wrote:
> On 8/23/19 2:22 AM, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> > btw, the libbpf GH repo tag v0.0.4 has 0.0.3 version set in Makefile:
> > 
> >    VERSION = 0
> >    PATCHLEVEL = 0
> >    EXTRAVERSION = 3
> > 
> > current code takes version from libbpf.map so it's fine,
> > but would be great to start from 0.0.5 so we don't need to
> > bother with rpm patches.. is 0.0.5 planned soon?
> 
> 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 that libbpf versions are synchronized with kernel versions
> in some what loose way.
> In this case we can make an exception and bump it now.

I see, I dont think it's worth of the exception now,
the patch is simple or we'll start with 0.0.3

jirka