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. _______________________________________________________ Linux-HA-Dev: [email protected] http://lists.linux-ha.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-ha-dev Home Page: http://linux-ha.org/
