Bug 821106
| Summary: | Need iproute-devel packaged as well as iproute | ||||||
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| Product: | Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 | Reporter: | Philip Prindeville <philipp> | ||||
| Component: | iproute | Assignee: | Petr Šabata <psabata> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED ERRATA | QA Contact: | David Spurek <dspurek> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | low | ||||||
| Version: | 6.4 | CC: | dgregor, dspurek, ebenes, ovasik | ||||
| Target Milestone: | rc | Keywords: | EasyFix | ||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | All | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | iproute-2.6.32-21.el6 | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | ||||
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Cause
The iproute package was distributed without the libnetlink library.
Consequence
It wasn't possible for EL users to utilize the libnetlink library features.
Change
The libnetlink library is now included in the newly introduced devel subpackage.
Result
EL users can now utilize libnetlink features.
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| Clone Of: | Environment: | ||||||
| Last Closed: | 2013-02-21 10:23:56 UTC | Type: | Bug | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||
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| Bug Depends On: | |||||||
| Bug Blocks: | 836169 | ||||||
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This is a minimal, non-disruptive change. Requesting acks. (In reply to comment #2) > This is a minimal, non-disruptive change. > Requesting acks. Sorry, requesting from whom? (In reply to comment #3) > (In reply to comment #2) > > This is a minimal, non-disruptive change. > > Requesting acks. > > Sorry, requesting from whom? Just getting the bug approved for the next release :)
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Cause
The iproute package was distributed without the libnetlink library.
Consequence
It wasn't possible for EL users to utilize the libnetlink library features.
Change
The libnetlink library is now included in the newly introduced devel subpackage.
Result
EL users can now utilize libnetlink features.
Temporary switching to MODIFIED for ET. Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2013-0417.html |
Created attachment 583944 [details] Build EL from Fedora's branch of iproute but omit linux-atm stuff (which hasn't been ported) Description of problem: The libnetlink.a library (and headers) is built as part of iproute in Fedora. I've some programs I'd like to backport to CentOS/RHEL but can't because of the lack of these files. Can we switch RHEL to share iproute with Fedora? Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): 2.6.32-17 How reproducible: Steps to Reproduce: 1. 2. 3. Actual results: Expected results: Additional info: