[ovs-dev] Building an openvswitch rpm for the openvswitch

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Tue Sep 25 17:06:40 UTC 2012


On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 05:04:01PM +0000, Kyle Mestery (kmestery) wrote:
> On Sep 25, 2012, at 12:00 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 01:07:50PM +0000, Kyle Mestery (kmestery) wrote:
> >> On Sep 24, 2012, at 10:58 PM, Ben Pfaff wrote:
> >>> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 07:05:50PM -0700, kashyap TA wrote:
> >>>>   I am currently running Fedora 17 and have OVS 1.7.1 installed on it.  I
> >>>> made some changes to learning-switch.c and want to rebuild and install. How
> >>>> can I build the rpm for both the openvswitch and openvswitch-kmod module?
> >>> 
> >>> Read INSTALL.RHEL.
> >> 
> >> I've actually hit the same problems for Fedora. Last time I tried
> >> this, the RHEL RPM specfiles didn't work for me, so I have created
> >> my own Fedora ones, and I utilize those to build OVS for
> >> Fedora. I've attached them here. But perhaps I should spend some
> >> time understanding why the normal RHEL ones didn't work for me as
> >> well.
> > 
> > That'd be great.
> > 
> > I didn't look at your Fedora spec files yet.  Are they different from
> > the RHEL ones in important ways, or merely tweaks?  Is it possible to
> > unify them with the RHEL ones?  Ideally, I want OVS to ship so that it
> > is easy to build packaging for each distribution that has enough
> > interested users to help maintain the packaging.
> > 
> They are different, and not as flexible as the RHEL ones.
> 
> Let me give the RHEL ones with the latest OVS a try on Fedora and see
> what happens there, and based on the result of that I'll see about fixing these
> up as well.

That sounds great.  Thank you very much.



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