Description of problem: The upstream repo has not created a release since Jul 14, 2019. From what I understand, users generally compile libiscsi from source rather than installing this outdated rpm. There is an updated specfile in Fedora, which is using a snapshot versioning, fixes README file and adds iscsi-pr tool. Additional info: I can create a MR from https://gitlab.com/mhoyer/libiscsi/-/tree/c9s if needed.
Unclear on our commitment to update our downstream libiscsi. It's not very active and no one is really "assigned" to keep it up to date. If you have a team willing to take this over, then feel free to get in touch with Yash Mankad the Virt Team Product Owner. The last package I think is: 1.19.0 from https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/rpms/libiscsi. Recent commit history https://gitlab.com/redhat/centos-stream/src/libiscsi/-/commits/c9s seems to show just keeping the build running and that's it. It's been more or less abandoned and pulling in patches from upstream without a linkage to some layered product need or feature request doesn't seem feasible since we have no resources focused on libiscsi (dev, qe, build, support). If 'iscsi-pr' is something related to Persistent Reservations, then I'm also aware that OpenShift Virtualization (CNV) will soon have a persistent reservation feature added. See: Feature: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/CNV-25887 EPIC: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/CNV-11239 Story: https://issues.redhat.com/browse/CNV-12543 It's a long way of saying, I doubt much changes from the Virt Team perspective. I'll leave it open for a little while, but it may close and move to a backlog.
Rather than wait for something that won't happen, I'm just closing this as WONTFIX at this point in time. If there's ever an upstream tag in https://github.com/sahlberg/libiscsi/tags that is more recent, we can look to revisit; however, given a lack of resources it will be challenging to commit to supporting a downstream libiscsi.
Understandable. Using copr for now https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/mhoyer/libiscsi/