Re: [PATCH 0/7] Various libnl related fixes

[Thomas Graf <tgraf redhat com>]

On Tue, 2011-09-13 at 10:29 -0500, Dan Williams wrote:
> Because that's the version of libnl that NM currently requires.  We try
> not to bump dependencies to a new major version during a branch of NM,
> but sometimes that can't be helped.  We could either make the
> VLAN/bond/bridge stuff dependent upon the presence of libnl3, or we
> could bump the NM requirement for libnl to 3.x during the 0.9 stable
> series.  The latter (bump the requirement) would require that libnl3 was
> parallel installable with other versions of libnl though, so that
> distros could build NM against libnl3 but not have to port everything
> else in their collections that might not yet be updated.

I see. That can be arranged. I have already switched the headers
installation path to $(includedir)/libnl3 with an appropriate -I line
in the pkg-config file and I will change the library basename to libnl-3
and switch to libtool versioning, i.e. libnl-3.so.x.y.z I have also
renamed the libnl-3.0.pc file to libnl-3.pc for easier checking.

That should allow for libnl3 to be installed on any system without
affecting any existing installations.