From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 21133 invoked by uid 1002); 19 Aug 2003 20:56:48 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-dev-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 786 invoked from network); 19 Aug 2003 20:56:48 -0000 From: Mike Frysinger Reply-To: vapier@gentoo.org To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2003 16:56:50 -0400 User-Agent: KMail/1.5.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200308191656.50226.vapier@gentoo.org> Subject: [gentoo-dev] deprecating libnet-1.0.x (it's about time) X-Archives-Salt: 831c8b23-82fe-4f8b-b4fd-559679936329 X-Archives-Hash: 1ead437da6575ef0e00bddb36839ccc1 libnet-1.0.x has been deprecated for sometime (well, since 1.1.x has been releeased), but we still were using libnet-1.0.x as the only libnet in portage ... reason being that many (well the majority) of apps that use libnet use libnet-1.0 ... unfortunately, 1.0.x and 1.1.x are not API compatible ... i just released a short time ago libnet versions that SLOT into 1.0 and 1.1 ... right now, libnet-1.0 occupies the 'default' position (libnet.a, libnet.h, libnet-config, etc...) while libnet-1.1 occupies libnet-1.1.a and libnet-1.1.h ... i would like to switch that around and patch all the apps that use libnet-1.0.x to point to the 'old' libnet location (-lnet becomes -lnet-1.0, libnet-config becomes libnet-1.0-config, etc...) ... the benefits (for those who havent caught on yet): rather than constantly maintaining patches for new apps that use 1.1, we only have to patch once (see below) for the 1.0 apps the good news ! first: libnet is a static library, thus all your install apps will not be affected :D second: if a libnet app tries to link against the wrong libnet, you *will* know :) they bomb out with some sweet compile/linker errors third: ive already made the ebuilds to put libnet-1.0.x into the 'deprecated' position and to put libnet-1.1.x into the 'regular' position fourth: ive already made the patches against all libnet-1.0.x apps in portage :D fifth: umm, it's a good thing the bad news ! well, none really ... but if you help maintain any of the following apps i'd like to hear about it since ive got a patch for your source: net-analyzer/angst net-analyzer/arping (has 1.0 and 1.1 version) net-analyzer/dsniff net-analyzer/egressor net-analyzer/hogwash (this needs a lot of work ...) net-analyzer/isic net-analyzer/paketto (well not really, it uses a bundled libnet) net-analyzer/snort (has 1.0 and 1.1 version) net-analyzer/tcptraceroute net-analyzer/zodiac net-dns/dnshijacker net-libs/libnids (this is SLOT-ed now too since it works with 1.0 and 1.1) net-libs/libnet net-misc/nemesis net-misc/rarpd sys-cluster/heartbeat i'd like to roll these changes into ~ (and well, afaik, all i gotta do is commit these ebuilds in my local portdir) soon feedback is welcome :) -mike -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list