Re: libdnet in Fedora

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On Thu, Jan 14, 2021 at 11:49:51AM +0000, Richard W.M. Jones wrote:
> Hi Oliver and others,
> 
> I'm trying to fix a few things in Fedora's libdnet and have some
> questions.
> 
> (1) I'm unclear what the canonical upstream of libdnet should be.
> There seem to be a couple of candidates:
> 
> https://github.com/boundary/libdnet  - not updated since 2016
> https://github.com/ofalk/libdnet - recently updated
> 
> The current spec file points to the "boundary" repo, but I think we
> should move to Oliver Falk's apparently more active fork.

I meant to ask if Oliver's version is still API compatible.  The real
reason we have libdnet is because of open-vm-tools, so if it breaks
open-vm-tools then we'd have to stick with the "boundary" version.

> (2) If we move to the ofalk repo, then there is a new version (1.14).
> 
> (3) I received a bug report about multilib conflicts with this
> package.  I previously fixed this
> (https://bugzilla.redhat.com/342001), but my fix was reverted,
> apparently by a bad revert commit:
> 
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/libdnet/c/224a9645782f69ae05b0e7caeb2e52e12b5655cb?branch=master
> 
> I would therefore like to include the multilib fix again.
> 
> Please let me know your thoughts on all this.

Rich.

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