On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 5:09 AM, Simon Horman <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 09:19:44AM +0900, Keisuke MORI wrote:
>> The attached patch is to remove libnet dependency from IPv6addr RA
>> by replacing the same functionality using the standard socket API.
>>
>> Currently there are following problems with resource-agents package:
>>
>>  - IPv6addr RA requires an extra libnet package on the run-time environment.
>>   That is pretty inconvenient particularly for RHEL users because
>>   it's not included in the standard distribution.
>>
>>  - The pre-built RPMs from ClusterLabs does not include IPv6addr RA.
>>   This was once reported in the pacemaker list:
>>   http://www.gossamer-threads.com/lists/linuxha/pacemaker/64295#64295
>>
>> The patch will resolve those issues.
>> I believe that none of Pacemaker/Heartbeat related packages would be
>> depending on libnet library any more after patched.
>
> Hi Mori-san,
>
> I will add that libnet seems to be more or less unmaintained.

Someone recently picked it up again, but I'm in favor of the patch for
the reasons Mori-san already stated.

> You seem to make using libnet optional, is there a reason
> not to just remove it? portability?

Agreed, lets just drop it.
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