On Fri, Nov 6, 2020 at 12:44 AM Jiri Benc <jb...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 5 Nov 2020 12:19:00 -0800, Andrii Nakryiko wrote:
> > I'll just quote myself here for your convenience.
>
> Sorry, I missed your original email for some reason.
>
> >   Submodule is a way that I know of to make this better for end users.
> >   If there are other ways to pull this off with shared library use, I'm
> >   all for it, it will save the security angle that distros are arguing
> >   for. E.g., if distributions will always have the latest libbpf
> >   available almost as soon as it's cut upstream *and* new iproute2
> >   versions enforce the latest libbpf when they are packaged/released,
> >   then this might work equivalently for end users. If Linux distros
> >   would be willing to do this faithfully and promptly, I have no
> >   objections whatsoever. Because all that matters is BPF end user
> >   experience, as Daniel explained above.
>
> That's basically what we already do, for both Fedora and RHEL.
>
> Of course, it follows the distro release cycle, i.e. no version
> upgrades - or very limited ones - during lifetime of a particular
> release. But that would not be different if libbpf was bundled in
> individual projects.

Alright. Hopefully this would be sufficient in practice.

>
>  Jiri
>

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