[Buildroot] [PATCH v2, 1/1] package/keepalived: add optional nftables dependency

Arnout Vandecappelle arnout at mind.be
Wed Mar 27 19:40:46 UTC 2019



On 27/03/2019 18:56, Baruch Siach wrote:
> Hi Fabrice,
> 
> On Wed, Mar 27, 2019 at 06:45:42PM +0100, Fabrice Fontaine wrote:
>> nftables support has been added since version 2.0.11 and
>> https://github.com/acassen/keepalived/commit/aa12175ea638912a7789e832634d7ccf80fdf48d
>>
>> It depends on libmnl and libnftnl
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Fabrice Fontaine <fontaine.fabrice at gmail.com>
>> ---
>> Changes v1 -> v2 (after review of Baruch Siach, Thomas Petazzoni and
>> Arnout Vandecappelle)
>>  - nftables support depends on libmnl and libnftnl, it does not depend
>>    on iptables's nftables option or nftables package
>>
>>  package/keepalived/keepalived.mk | 7 +++++++
>>  1 file changed, 7 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/package/keepalived/keepalived.mk b/package/keepalived/keepalived.mk
>> index fcdb43ce13..4790cf5689 100644
>> --- a/package/keepalived/keepalived.mk
>> +++ b/package/keepalived/keepalived.mk
>> @@ -46,4 +46,11 @@ else
>>  KEEPALIVED_CONF_OPTS += --disable-libiptc
>>  endif
>>  
>> +ifeq ($(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBMNL)$(BR2_PACKAGE_LIBNFTNL),yy)
>> +KEEPALIVED_DEPENDENCIES += libmnl libnftnl
> 
> BR2_PACKAGE_LIBNFTNL selects BR2_PACKAGE_LIBMNL already. So I think you can 
> test for BR2_PACKAGE_LIBNFTNL and depend on libnftnl alone.

 If it directly uses libmnl functions, then I prefer to have it like this. That
way, if libnfnl ever looses its dependency on libmnl for whatever reason,
keepalived doesn't break.

 Regards,
 Arnout

> 
>> +KEEPALIVED_CONF_OPTS += --enable-nftables
>> +else
>> +KEEPALIVED_CONF_OPTS += --disable-nftables
>> +endif
>> +
>>  $(eval $(autotools-package))
> 
> baruch
> 



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