Re: [Qemu-devel] QEMU desired libiscsi.so clashes with libiscsi.so from iscsi-initiator-utils

[Michael Tokarev]

06.03.2012 15:15, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 06, 2012 at 10:06:38PM +1100, ronnie sahlberg wrote:
> > Sorry about this.
> >
> > First, libiscsi is a really good name for a general purpose
> > multiplatform library, like libiscsi.
> > Second,  a generic name like this is a horribly poor idea for a single
> > distribution/ single use / obscure private library.
>
> Yes, I agree it was a bad idea for the Fedora/RHEL admin to have done
> this for iscsi-initiator-utils packaging. Now this exists though, the
> library name&  ABI has to be maintained in RHEL for back-compatibility,
> so sadly we can't easily fix this. At the same time I really want to
> include your iSCSI support in Fedora/RHEL.

Which ABI you're talking about?  The library is _internal_ to the package,
there should be no users of it outside of this single set of utilities.
Can you be a bit more specific please?

> So, IMHO, the simplest approach is to just avoid the namespace clash
> by calling your library  libiscsiclient

Thanks,

/mjt