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Date:   Wed, 7 Dec 2022 11:31:38 -0300
From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To:     Ian Rogers <irogers@google.com>,
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Subject: Re: [ALMOST ready] Re: [PATCH 2/3] perf build: Use libtraceevent
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Em Wed, Dec 07, 2022 at 11:21:18AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
> One thing I'm doing now is testing with the container builds, and I'm
> afraid we have to delay deleting the in-kernel old copy of
> tools/lib/traceevent till distros that don't ship libtraceevent as a
> separate package are EOLed.
> 
> We need in those cases to fallback to tools/lib/traceevent/, with a
> warning probably.
> 
> I'm now updating my container build recipes to install
> libtraceevent-devel, when available, which isn't the case, for instance,
> for almalinux:8, the first I tried updating.

No distro I tested so far has a package for libtracevent in is default
repositories:

almalinux 8 and 9 and the recently released Alpine Linux 3.17 (at least
I hadn't a recipe for that one, will try with edge).

- Arnaldo