[libvirt] [PATCH 5/5] tools: Drop support for pre-2.4.0 wireshark

Michal Privoznik mprivozn at redhat.com
Tue Feb 12 08:32:48 UTC 2019


On 2/11/19 5:55 PM, Ján Tomko wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 08, 2019 at 12:23:28PM +0100, Michal Privoznik wrote:
>> The wireshark-2.4.0 is almost 2 years old now. Assuming anybody
> 
> While 2 years is not that much given our support page:
> https://libvirt.org/platforms.html
> the wireshark plugin was always an exception to those
> 
>> interested in running latest libvirt doesn't run old wireshark,
>> it is safe to do this. It also simplifies the code.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Michal Privoznik <mprivozn at redhat.com>
>> ---
>> libvirt.spec.in                      |  8 ++----
>> m4/virt-wireshark.m4                 |  4 +--
>> tools/wireshark/src/packet-libvirt.c | 39 ----------------------------
>> tools/wireshark/src/plugin.c         | 14 +++-------
>> 4 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 58 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/libvirt.spec.in b/libvirt.spec.in
>> index 13f41bb4a5..9beffba203 100644
>> --- a/libvirt.spec.in
>> +++ b/libvirt.spec.in
>> @@ -166,11 +166,7 @@
>> # Enable wireshark plugins for all distros shipping libvirt 1.2.2 or 
>> newer
>> %if 0%{?fedora}
>>     %define with_wireshark 0%{!?_without_wireshark:1}
>> -%endif
>> -%if 0%{?fedora} || 0%{?rhel} > 7
> 
> This gets rid of the rhel > 7 condition.
> If it works on latest Fedora, shouldn't it work on RHEL 8 too?

We're not building wireshark plugin on any RHEL. This is merely dropping 
a specfile variable that was passed to configure only on Fedora not RHEL.

Michal




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