Bug#948041: impossible to update libbpf without updating the kernel

[Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com>]

On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 7:49 PM Bastian Blank <bblank@thinkmo.de> wrote:
>
> Hi Marco
>
> On Fri, Jan 03, 2020 at 06:59:36PM +0100, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > On Jan 03, Sudip Mukherjee <sudipm.mukherjee@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Do we package libbpf from their github repo independent of the kernel
> > > update? Then we will need to remove the libbpf building bits from the
> > > Debian kernel source and create a separate package for libbpf.
> > This is what some of the upstream libbpf developers requested us to do.
>
> What I don't understand is, if the kernel git tree is the primary
> location for this library, why should we use an external copy?
>
> What are the benefits of doing so?

The only benefit will be that we will be able to update the libraries
irrespective of kernel update. libbpf v0.0.6 has been released in
December but we will not be able to move to that version. The
userspace application using this library is deprived of the benefit of
the fixes that v0.0.6 brings.


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Regards
Sudip