[ovs-dev] [PATCH 2/2] INSTALL.Linux: Don't discourage building Debian packages.

[Justin Pettit]

This series looks reasonable to me.

--Justin


On Aug 30, 2010, at 10:15 AM, Ben Pfaff wrote:

> For a while the Debian packages were not well maintained or regularly used,
> but we at Nicira use them all the time now.  We now aim to have them
> accepted into Debian downstream, so we should at least not discourage
> users from trying them out.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>
> ---
> INSTALL.Linux |    7 +++----
> 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/INSTALL.Linux b/INSTALL.Linux
> index 3ae67d0..8ae7aac 100644
> --- a/INSTALL.Linux
> +++ b/INSTALL.Linux
> @@ -5,10 +5,9 @@ This document describes how to build and install Open vSwitch on a
> generic Linux host.  If you want to install Open vSwitch on a Citrix
> XenServer version 5.5.0, see INSTALL.XenServer instead.
> 
> -This version of Open vSwitch should be built manually with "configure"
> -and "make".  Debian packaging for Open vSwitch is also included, but
> -they have not been recently tested, and so Debian packages are not a
> -recommended way to use this version of Open vSwitch.
> +This version of Open vSwitch may be built manually with "configure"
> +and "make", as described below.  You may also build Debian packages by
> +running "dpkg-buildpackage".
> 
> Build Requirements
> ------------------
> -- 
> 1.7.1
> 
> 
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