[CentOS] Why libnetfilter_queue is missing from CentOS, but available in, Fedora?

[Mike Burger]

Simply put, it's likely not in RHEL, either. CentOS is, essentially, a
clone of RHEL, so if it's not in RHEL, it's not in CentOS.

Keep in mind, as well, that the latest Fedora releases are as closely
related to the current RHEL/CentOS release as you and I. RHEL/CentOS6 is
closer to Fedora 12, as I recall...someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

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> I am asking this on behalf of the HIPL developers;
>
> http://infrahip.hiit.fi/
> https://launchpad.net/hipl
>
> They have been working on getting their code consistant to the new
> libnetfilter architecture.  Finally have Fedora 18 and 19 available, but
> have hit a stumbling block with Centos 6.  They tell me they are not
> finding libnetfilter_queue.  Here is their message to me:
>
>
> On 08/08/2013 02:03 PM, Miika Komu wrote:
>> Hi Robert,
>>
>> a bug fix exists in the trunk, thanks to Juhani. Do you know why
>> libnetfilter_queue is not available for CentOS? Do you know any CentOS
>> maintainers?
>>
>> On 13/03/13 15:00, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>> Here you go!
>>>
>>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: 	Re: libipq and Fedora 18
>>> Date: 	Wed, 13 Mar 2013 06:45:13 -0600
>>> From: 	Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com>
>>> Reply-To: 	For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases
>>> <test at lists.fedoraproject.org>
>>> To: 	For testing and quality assurance of Fedora releases
>>> <test at lists.fedoraproject.org>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 08:07:14AM -0400, Robert Moskowitz wrote:
>>>> I am working with the HIPL project: http://infrahip.net/ and I am
>>>> the creator of the HIP protocol (see RFC 5201 and ID 5201-bis).
>>>>
>>>> On past Fedora releases, HIPL has relied on libipq, but the package
>>>> manager cannot find this in F18.
>>> That is what you can find, for example, in Wikipedia: "libipq is a
>>> development library for iptables userspace packet queuing. Libipq
>>> provides an API for communicating with ip_queue.
>>>
>>> Libipq has been deprecated in favour of the newer libnetfilter_queue in
>>> Linux kernel-2.6.14 onwards."
>>>
>>> See also
>>> http://www.netfilter.org/projects/libnetfilter_queue/index.html
>>>
>>> If you will try:
>>>
>>>     yum provides '*/libnetfilter_queue.so*'
>>>
>>> then packages libnetfilter_queue-1.0.2-1.fc18 and
>>> libnetfilter_queue-devel-1.0.2-1.fc18 will show up.
>>>
>>>     Michal
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