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

[Dan Williams]

On Tue, 2011-11-08 at 13:05 -0500, Bill Nottingham wrote:
> Dan Williams (dcbw at redhat.com) said: 
> > I believe libnl3 *might* be parallel installable; I've had conversations
> > with tgraf about how to make it so.  I'll investigate once the upstream
> > git repo comes back online.  In the past the problem was mainly with the
> > devel package and the location of the headers and the .pc file (ie, it
> > was always /usr/include/netlink no matter what the version of libnl) but
> > I believe Thomas fixed that earlier this summer for libnl3.
> 
> I'm less concerned about the old version being around to develop against -
> I'd just rather not have the whole repo hae issues while people are still
> porting.

It certainly has a different soname, so yeah, we can have a -compat
package.  But that would still mean a ton of stuff busted for rebuilds
while packages get fixed up.  A few upstream packages already work with
libnl2, and the delta between 2 and 3 is hugely smaller than from 1 to
3.

repoquery --whatrequires libnl for F16 says:

NetworkManager (fixed upstream)
anaconda
crda (wifi regulatory database)
dropwatch
hostapd (upstream works with libnl2)
ipvsadm
iw (upstream works with libnl2)
keepalived
kismet
knemo
libvirt
lldpad
netcf
netlabel_tools
powertop
python-ethtool
quota-nld
sssd
wimax
wimax-tools
wpa_supplicant (upstream works with libnl2)

Dan