Heads up: bumping libnl to v3 in rawhide/F17 soon

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Nov 8 17:41:46 UTC 2011


Dan Williams (dcbw at redhat.com) said: 
> At some point here I'm going to bump libnl to version 3 in rawhide.  The
> libnl 1.1 we use today is way out of date and we want version 3 for the
> enhanced capabilities like bonding, bridging, vlan, etc.  This *does*
> mean an API break, so packages will need to be updated for libnl3.  The
> majority of the changes are simply function renames and changed
> structure names.  There's no porting guide that I'm aware of but I and
> others working on NetworkManager have spent time porting from libnl1.1
> to libnl3 this cycle so we can point you in the right direction.

Can we ship libnl-1.1 as a parallel-installed compatibility library,
at least in the short term?

Bill


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