libpcap updated to 0.9.5

Paul Howarth paul at city-fan.org
Tue Nov 28 12:37:39 UTC 2006


Miroslav Lichvar wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> libpcap was updated to version 0.9.5. The library soname was changed
> to libpcap.so.0.9 and will not follow the library version anymore. So
> future updates that don't change ABI won't require rebuild of other
> packages. Following packages need to be rebuilt.
> 
> Core packages depending on libpcap.so.0.9.4:
> 
> isdn4k-utils
> wireshark
> wireshark-gnome
> 
> Packages BuildRequiring libpcap, but not in the list above:
> 
> nmap
> ppp

ppp for FC-6 and devel still have:

BuildPrereq: libpcap

rather than:

BuildRequires: libpcap-devel

and hence are not getting built against libpcap.

The nmap package has the same problem.

Paul.




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