Hi Tobias,

(In reply to Tobias Jungel from comment #0)
> is there a reason not to have iproute 4.4.0 for Fedora 23? Currently 4.4.0
> is only built for 24+

AFAICT, Fedora 23 is in maintenance phase. So unless there is good reason, I would not want to update the base version. In case you discovered a defect in Fedora 23's iproute-4.1.1, please open an appropriate ticket and I'll backport what is necessary to get it fixed.

HTH, Phil

I sort of expected something like that. Having said that its not really satisfying, since new kernel features get in but not the respective iproute release addressing them.

Hi Tobias,

(In reply to Tobias Jungel from comment #2)
> I sort of expected something like that. Having said that its not really
> satisfying, since new kernel features get in but not the respective iproute
> release addressing them.

OK, that is indeed lame. I wasn't aware stable Fedora versions (even F22) receive full kernel updates. Looks like I have to reconsider my maintenance policy.

Thanks, Phil

Sounds great.

Thanks, Tobi

Hi,

(In reply to Tobias Jungel from comment #4)
> Sounds great.
> 
> Thanks, Tobi

I had an internal discussion about the topic and found out that kernel version updates in stable releases are rather a necessary evil than means to provide new features. Therefore they don't serve as argument to apply the same practice to the iproute package, as well.

That being said, it seems not to be an issue to backport features which don't harm the remaining package's stability. So if you desperately need support for something in iproute, open a ticket and I will check if a backport is both feasible and non-intrusive to be regarded as safe enough to go into a stable release.

Cheers, Phil (who starts to fear an upcoming sh*tload of feature requests ;)

Since it was working fine so far internally I made a copr project for the 4.4 version of iproute: toanju/iproute2

cheers
Tobi (who hopes, that there weren't too many sleepless nights ;)